September 2019

Balinese lontar work underway!

September 12, 2019 || David Kamholz

Tags: Aksara Bali, Bali, Balinese Digital Library, Balinese language, Balinese literature, Internet Archive, Karangasem, Kawi, keyboards, lontar palm leaf, Museum Lontar Dukuh Penaban, palm leaf manuscript, PalmLeaf.org

In the previous two updates, we described the Balinese lontar digitization project that PanLex is managing for Internet Archive. The goal is to continue the digitization of the Balinese Digital Library’s scanned lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) by transcribing them into Unicode text, using the keyboards discussed in the last update. This work has now gotten underway […]

Wikidata, WikidataCon, and PanLex

September 11, 2019 || Benjamin Yang

Categories: News, PanLex Database

Tags: Berlin, lexical data, linked data, publicly-accessible information, structured data, Wikidata, WikidataCon 2019, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia

We are honored to announce that PanLex has been asked to give one of the two keynote speeches at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin, Germany on October 25th. Wikidata, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, is a collaboratively-edited database of structured knowledge. Much in the way that Wikimedia’s most well-known project Wikipedia is a publicly created […]