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
Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30 from 07.04.2025 to 14.07.2025
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 5)
2. Individual or group discussion or presentation of language conversation and script preservation topics (during Week 10)
3. Project presentation/demonstration or writing a proposal document with a tool made from the template (Week 13)
Practical Course
| Week and Dates | Content during Session | Material |
| Week 1 : Mo. Apr 7 | About course, introductions, expectations, graphical information systems knowledge and submissions during course | |
| Week 2 : Mo. Apr 14 | Font generation principles, tools and process
- exercise : participants create their own font |
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| Week 3: Mo. Apr 28 | Keyboard generation principles, tools and process
- exercise : participants create their own keyboard |
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| Week4: Mo. May 5 |
Familiarise with Unicode and how to contribute - exercise : programming with Unicode - Review topics for the Project |
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| Week 5 : Mo. May 12 | 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 13 - |
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| Week 6 : Mo. May 19 |
Case Study of a Script (Oduduwa) ? - topics for individual or group discussion / presentation during Week 10 - Scrum: bi-weekly project plan |
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| Week 7 : Mo. May 26 |
Script Vitality and Obsolescence - exercise : participants experience digital preservation (programming) - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 8 : Mo. Jun 2 |
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 9 : Mo. Jun 16 |
Case Study of a Script (Sancha) ? - feedback about Fonts or Keyboards submitted - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 10 : Mo. Jun 23 |
Discussion / Presentation as an individual or a group about topics previously shared - |
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| Week 11 : Mo. Jun 30 | Calligraphy, Cartography, Cryptography and Beyond
- exercise : participants attempt decoding undeciphered script - Scrum : bi-weekly review and refine |
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| Week 12 : Mo. Jul 7 |
Transliteration and it’s challenges - exercise : participants transliterate between pairs of writing systems |
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| Week 13 : Mo. Jul 14 |
Project Submission | Studienleistung - |