Transliterations

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Robin Riley

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Jan 19, 2012, 6:54:39 PM1/19/12

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It's been awhile (10/2009) since the idea for adding a transliteration

option was suggested, and favorable discussed ... is this still

something that is being considered?

Robin

On Oct 18 2009, 12:04 pm, Jesse Griffin <jag3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we are in agreement, we are approaching transliteration from

> different angles. The goals of Open Scriptures are more in line with

> linking and providing access to as much Scriptural data as possible. Thus,

> linking several transliterations to the manuscript data seems to be the best

> route. Our about page states:

> Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repository for

> integrated scriptural data and a general application framework for building

> internationalized social applications of scripture. An abundance of

> scriptural resources are now available online—manuscripts, translations, and

> annotations are all being made available by students and scholars alike at

> an ever-increasing rate. These diverse scriptural resources, however, are

> isolated from each other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up

> the available data into new scriptural applications is not currently

> possible for the community at large because the resources’

> interrelationships are not systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims

> to establish a scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as

> merged manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their

> semantic units and the semantic units of their translations... (http://openscriptures.org/about/)

> I think it's safe to say we could add transliterations to growing list of

> "manuscripts, translations, and annotations." Regarding man power, after

> coding the first transliteration schema into the [as yet uncreated] system

> the subsequent schema's will be very easy to add because much of the code

> will likely will be reusable.

> It really is a good idea to add transliteration(s) into our list of

> scriptural data to link. As the software framework takes shape in the near

> future we should definitely keep this in mind.

> Thanks for the ideas Robin!

> Jessehttp://www.ekfocus.com

Weston Ruter

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Jan 19, 2012, 9:35:15 PM1/19/12

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Sure, but it is still an “[as yet uncreated] system”.

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