TLA Development
Version history
- 7/26/2024:
- Web app: v2.1.5, improvements
(Improved:) Links in comments/text fields clickable, button placement on text and search page, attestation sorting: second sorting criterion, relation lists: sorting by alphabet;
(Corrected:) Bug in font “EgyptianHiero” v3.03 > v3.03a by Marwan Kilani, bug: no display of links in angle brackets;
Text metadata: information on line count, object metadata: object description, sorting option for lemmata by attestation count. - Text corpus: v18, unchanged
- Web app: v2.1.5, improvements
- 6/27/2024:
- Web app: v2.1.4, improvements
(Improved:) ID search merged;
(Corrected:) Bug fixes concerning relations w/o IDs. - Text corpus: v18, unchanged
- Web app: v2.1.4, improvements
- 5/16/2024:
- Web app: v2.1.3, improvements
(Improved:) Collocation search also possible for three (different) lemmata, completion of log metadata for texts and objects, lemma search results that are sorted by dating are now sorted secondarily by name, reference to texts/objects PDF on the search page;
(Corrected:) incorrect display of “Is a secondary inscription”, highlight of searched lemmata also in block view;
(New:) Sorting of lemma attestations by dating, display of attestation frequency in the lemma search results list. - Text corpus: v18, unchanged
- Web app: v2.1.3, improvements
- 11/24/2023:
- Web app: v2.1.2, improvements
(Improved:) List of glossing abbreviations;
(Updated:) Information on corpus, authors, bibliography;
(Changed:) Counting of sentence reading variants now decimal, license information,
(New:) List of metadata thesauri. - Text corpus: v18, expanded
- Web app: v2.1.2, improvements
- 11/3/2023:
- Web app: v2.1.1, improvements
(Improved:) Bugfix: sentence reading variant enumeration. - Text corpus: v17, unchanged
- Web app: v2.1.1, improvements
- 10/13/2023:
- Web app: v2.1.0, improvements
(New:) Text content page, comments to sentences (yet without indication of scope), sentence token ID lookup;
(Changed:) Change of citation of sentence reading variants (permanent IDs/URLs can be guaranteed only for the sentence, not reliably for its individual reading variants);
(Improved:) Metadata on text/object pages complete, linking of text/object metadata with thesaurus pages, more consistency in metadata/link icons. - Text corpus: v17, unchanged (Note: By mistake, only sentence comments from before 2015 are present in this corpus edition.)
- Web app: v2.1.0, improvements
- 8/8/2023:
- Web app: v2.0.2.1, improvements
Addition of metadata on text object page, placeholder strings in search form. - Text corpus: v17, unchanged
- Web app: v2.0.2.1, improvements
- 7/12/2023:
- Web app: v2.0.2, improvements
Basis lemma collocation search, addition and reorganization of metadata on text page and text object page, addition of file creation date, improvement of computation of attestation frequency (sentences) on lemma page, various labels/terms. - Text corpus: v17, unchanged
- Web app: v2.0.2, improvements
- 12/15/2022:
- Web app: v2.0[.]1, improvements
Citation notes, authors' list, development plan, smartphone layout, external references, Unicode keyboard, text path, information notes, Trismegistos links, labels. - Text corpus: v17, unchanged
- Web app: v2.0[.]1, improvements
- 10/31/2022:
- Web app: v2.0, development package 1
- Text corpus: v17
Comparison of legacy vs. new TLA, with development perspectives
| Legacy TLA (v1.x) | New TLA (v2.x) | |
|---|---|---|
| New/extended/improved information | ||
| Lemmata: Hieroglyphs | ✓ (JSesh MdC) | ✓ (Unicode, JSesh MdC) |
| Lemmata: Nominal classes | ✕ | ✓ |
| Lemmata: English translation equivalents | partly (hiero. only) | completed (hiero. only) |
| Lemmata: French translation equivalents | partly (hiero. only) | partly (hiero. only) |
| Lemmata: comments | ✕ | ✓ (esp. medical texts) |
| Lemmata: linking composites/parts (ḥm-nṯr > ḥm, ...) | ✓ (Demotic only) | ✓ |
| Sentences/sentence words: comments | ✓ (scope: sentence) | (✓) (scope: sentence; spec. of scope to come (medium priority)) |
| Sentences/sentence words: annotations | ✕ | to come (medium priority) |
| Sentence words: hieroglyphs | (✓) (JSesh MdC; few) | ✓ (JSesh-MdC; many) |
| Sentence words: word class | ✕ | ✓ |
| Sentence words: grammatical annotation | ✕ | ✓ (BTS, LMG) |
| Sentence words: contextual meaning | (✓) (for searched lemma only) | ✓ |
| Texts/objects: authorship | ✓ (main author) | ✓ (main author, further editors) |
| Texts/objects: annotations/text comments | ✕ | to come (medium priority) |
| Content comes with free license | ✕ | (✕) (separate raw data publications) |
| Content of the legacy TLA | ✓ | (✓) (except for Edfu project texts, these in the legacy TLA only) |
| Digital references | ||
| References to DZA | ✓ (website internal) | ✓ (reference to legacy TLA for the time being) |
| References to other digital projects | ✓ (few) | ✓ (more) |
| Basic functionalities | ||
| Lemma search: via transcription, word class, bibliography | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lemma search: transcription encoding type | MdC | Unicode, MdC |
| Lemma search: incl. hierarchy | ✓ | to come (medium priority) |
| Lemma search: incl. composites (ḥm > ḥm-nṯr, ...) | ✕ | to come (medium priority) |
| Root search; Lemma search: via root transcription | ✕ | ✓ |
| Lemma search result: sorting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lemma collocation search | ✓ | ✓ (simple), distance spec. (low priority) |
| Hieroglyph search | (✓) (lemma form only) | to come (medium priority) |
| Sentence search (transliteration, grammar, translation, ...) | ✕ | to come (medium priority) |
| Lemma pages | ✓ (stable IDs) | ✓ (citable) |
| Single sentence pages | ✕ | ✓ (citable) |
| Occurences list | ✓ | ✓ |
| Occurences list: sorting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text pages: metadata | ✓ | ✓ (citable) |
| Text pages: text content (sentences) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0bject page | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text/object tree/browser | ✓ | (✓) (PDF) |
| Text/object search: name | ✓ | (✓) (PDF); search form to come (high priority) |
| Text/object search: metadata | ✕ | to come (medium priority) |
| Thesaurus entry pages | ✕ | ✓ (citable) |
| Analysis | ||
| Word statistics | ✓ | (low priority) |
| Collocation analysis | ✓ | (low priority) |
| Lexical gravity | ✓ | ✕ |
| Lemmata: computed attestation time span in the TLA corpus | ✕ | ✓ |
| Lemmata: Compilation of hieroglyphic spellings | ✕ | to come (low priority) |
| Citeability/verifiability | ||
| Persistent lemma IDs/URLs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Look up lemma ID | (✓) (via URL) | ✓ |
| Persistent sentence/sentence word IDs/URLs | ✕ | ✓ |
| Look up sentence ID | ✕ | ✓ |
| Look up sentence word ID | ✕ | ✓ |
| Persistent text/object IDs/URLs | ✕ | ✓ |
| Look up text/object ID | ✕ | ✓ |
| Persistent thesaurus entry IDs/URLs | ✕ | ✓ |
| Look up thesaurus entry ID | ✕ | ✓ |
| Content persistently verifiable | ✕ | to come: raw data publication (low priority) |
| Usability | ||
| Web application languages | DE, EN | DE, EN; perspectively more |
| Smartphone compatibility (responsive design) | ✕ | ✓ |
| Print support (layout) | ✕ | ✓ |
| Citation assistance on pages | ✕ | ✓ |
| Share functionality | ✕ | ✓ |
| Feedback form | ✕ | to come (low priority) |
| Reuse | ||
| Free licensing of data | ✕ | See here. |
| Transcription in Unicode | ✕ | ✓ |
| Hieroglyphs in Unicode | ✕ | ✓ (lemmata; for sentences, experimental, in preparation) |
| Additional resources | ||
| Wb. browser | ✓ (website-internal) | ✕ (usage in legacy TLA for the time being) |
| Vormanuskript browser | ✓ (website-internal) | ✕ (usage in legacy TLA for the time being) |
| DZA browser | ✓ (website-internal) | ✕ (usage in legacy TLA for the time being) |
Known issues
For a list of known issues, see here.