Balinese literature Archives

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 […]

Digitizing Balinese Literature from Lontar Palm Leaves

May 7, 2019 || Julie Anderson

Categories: News, Palm Leaves

Tags: Balinese literature, Balinese script, Internet Archive, lontar palm leaf, palm leaf manuscript, Udayana University, Unicode

In 2011, the Internet Archive photographed nearly the entire collection of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts (130,000 leaves in all) as part of an effort to bring out of the shadows the lesser-known literatures of the world and to inspire others to do the same. These traditional Balinese texts were inscribed with a special triangular iron stylus […]