About
This course is intended for students who wish to learn, understand, create technologies or tools or write documents, so as to better comprehend how could an individual or a group play key role in language and script revitalization as well as preservation. The students will get a chance to learn about various scripts (or shapes) systems on how they work at an overarching principle level, familiarise them to the Unicode processes and writing proposal document, how to inculcate internationalization, localization and accessibility during product creation as well as incorporating CARE and FAIR principles in their work ethos, how to avail Scrum methodology for better productivity during their projects and finally the current work being done in language conservation and script preservation.
Organisational
Submission / Studienleistung (required):
1. Submission of font or keyboard of a writing system or script (or shapes) that is not familiar to you (end of Week 6)
2. Individual or group discussion or presentation of language conversation and script preservation topics (during Week 12)
3. Project presentation/demonstration or writing a proposal document with a tool made from the template (Week 15 / Week 16)
Practical Course
| Week and Dates | Content during Session | Material |
| Week 1 : Mo. Apr 1 - Fr. Apr 5 (Ostermontag Apr 1) | ||
| Week 2 : Mo. Apr 8 - Fr. Apr 12 | About course, introductions, expectations, graphical information systems knowledge and submissions during course | |
| Week 3 : Mo. Apr 15 - Fr. Apr 19 | Font generation principles, tools and process
- exercise : participants create their own font |
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| Week 4 : Mo. Apr 22 - Fr. Apr 26 | Keyboard generation principles, tools and process
- exercise : participants create their own keyboard |
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| Week 5: Mo. Apr 29 - Fr. May 2 |
Familiarise with Unicode and how to contribute - exercise : programming with Unicode - Review topics for the Project |
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| Week 6 : Mo. May 6 - Fr. May 10 | CARE & FAIR Principles, Software Guidelines (i18n, l10n, g11n, p13n, a11y), Coding Practices and Scrum methodology
- exercise : participants put SCRUM to action - finalise topics for individual or group Project for Week 15/16 - |
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| Week 7 : Mo. May 13 - Fr. May 17 |
Case Study of a Script (Oduduwa) - topics for individual or group discussion / presentation during Week 12 - Scrum: bi-weekly project plan |
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| Week 8 : Mo. May 20 - Fr. May 24 (Pflingstenwoche) | ||
| Week 9 : Mo. May 27 - Fr. May 31 |
Script Vitality and Obsolescence - exercise : participants experience digital preservation (programming) - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 10 : Mo. Jun 3 - Fr. Jun 7 |
Current Work in Script preservation and Language conservation - exercise : participants experience digital preservation (OCR Tools) - Group discussion/presentation review and refine |
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| Week 11 : Mo. Jun 10 - Fr. Jun 14 |
Case Study of a Script (Sancha) - feedback about Fonts or Keyboards submitted - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 12 : Mo. Jun 17 - Fr. Jun 21 |
Discussion / Presentation as an individual or a group about topics previously shared - |
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| Week 13 : Mo. Jun 24 - Fr. Jun 28 | Calligraphy, Cartography, Cryptography and Beyond
- exercise : participants attempt decoding undeciphered script - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 14 : Mo. Jul 1 - Fr. Jul 5 |
Transliteration and it’s challenges - exercise : participants transliterate between pairs of writing systems |
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| Week 15 : Mo. Jul 8 - Fr. Jul 12 |
Case Study of a Writing System (Japanese) - Uniqueness of scripts and languages - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 16 : Mo. Jul 15 - Fr. Jul 19 |
Project Submission | Studienleistung - |