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Developed by: The Special Commission on the Computer-Supported Processing of Mediæval Slavonic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books to the International Committee of Slavists
Curator: Ralph Cleminson
Location: http://www.obshtezhitie.net
Last modified: 2022-09-15
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About this site
At the First International Conference on the Application of Computer Technology to the Study of Mediæval Slavonic Manuscripts, held at Blagoevgrad, 24th–29th July 1995, it was decided to facilitate the exchange of information on this subject and related ones by means of a page on the World Wide Web. Subsequently the International Commission on Computer Supported Processing of Mediæval Slavonic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, which was set up at the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists in Cracow in 1998, adopted the page. Documents relating to the history of these activities include:
- Reports on the Blagoevgrad conference;
- Charter and founding membership of the commission
- History of the commission’s activities, 1998–2003, by Anisava Miltenova;
- Activities of the Commission at the Department of Old Bulgarian Literature, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, since 2004, by Anisava Miltenova;
- Report on activities and decisions taken at the meeting of the Commission during the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists in Ohrid, 12th September 2008;
- A Working Group on the Representation of Cyrillic and Glagolitic Letter-Forms, led by Viktor Baranov (for the Commission) and Andreas Stötzner (for MUFI) was set up to study the Unicode requirements for Mediæval Slavonic Studies and in particular to co-ordinate the use of the Private Use Area for cyrillic and glagolitic letter-forms which may not qualify as Unicode characters but would be useful to scholars working with mediæval Slavonic texts. The results of the Working Group’s activities were published in Scripta & e-Scripta vol.8–9, pp.9–26. Code-points for over 200 glyphs were proposed; some of these have since been included in Unicode.
- Report on activities and decisions taken at the meeting of the Commission during the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists in Minsk, August 2013, together with the membership of the Commission at that time.
- A report on the activities of the Commission, 2013–2018.
- Details of the thematic block presented by the Commission, and minutes of the meeting of the Commission at the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists in Belgrade, August 2018.
- The current membership of the Commission.
- Minutes of the virtual meeting of the Commissionon 15th September 2020.
Several further Cyrillic characters have been included in the Unicode standard in recent years. The Commission may be able to offer some technical advice on the preparation of future proposals; in any case it is strongly recommended that before any proposal is initiated it should be referred to the Working Group so that consensus may be achieved both on the need for a particular character and its suitability under the Unicode criteria.
This site also aims to facilitate the publication and exchange of information relating to the topic. For this reason we include links to
The page is very much dependent on the scholarly community for its content, and we appeal to organisers for information about web resources, events, and other relevent items which it would be appropriate to include. We also invite authors of electronic texts or of tools for the manipulation of textual data that would be interest to the Slavonic mediævalist to place them on this site.