Standards
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Computer character sets, ancient languages and writing systems
In spite of its name, "Unicode" is not a universal character set. The Technical Working Group is beginning to put together proposed identifiers for combinations of language (including dialects), writing systems (e.g., different epichoric scripts), and how they map onto computer character sets.
In addition, there are numerous characters used in linguistic notation or transcription of foreign languages that have no single corresponding character in Unicode. This page lists some characters marked with entities in the online versions of either Pindar's Homer or Best of the Achaeans that do not have obvious correspondences in Unicode. Suggestions or ideas about how to represent them are welcome!
Reference and citation practice
One area where we want to establish standards is in reference and citation pratice. In all media, citations should refer to what the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) calls "location-independent, stable resources" -- if referring to a book, not to a specific call number in one library; if referring to a digital resource, not a (possibly transient) URL.
- See a summary of current CHS standards for referring to Greek and Roman texts by title and author and for references in general
- Ideas for standardizing references to secondary publications
- Introduction to CTS URN notation: see a discussion from Digital Incunabula
- Converting title/author references to CTS URN notation
Markup
We follow the Guidelines for XML, but we need to define a set of CHS in-house standards for applying the TEI Guidlines to specific markup problems. That topic deserves its own wiki page.
