The state of the birchbark letters XML project
I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together; I'm hoping to finish it in about a week or so. Here's the current status of the deliverables as of 20 June 2010:
Date index
A preliminary version is done and ready for release. It contains all the documents and all the different proposed date ranges found in Zaliznjak 2004 and gramoty.ru. A sample entry:
Name index
Finished, other than the metadata about whether a name is attested elsewhere, compositional, or none of the above. A sample entry:
Names in context
Starting work on this index (which shows all the names found in each document, and the role they play) is the next step in building a proof-of-concept for the work on the BBL names sub-project.
Unicode word index
Completed through page 62 out of 113.
Word index with vowel etymology
Pending completion of Unicode word index.