TLA Development

Version history

5 Jun 2026:
- Web app: v2.5.1, improvements
  (Improved:) Trigger search form by pressing [Return], Better information on current location, Hide sentence button when text is empty, Date displayed in English in “DD MMM” format;
  (Corrected:) Bug when copying lemma ID fixed, Bug during initial sorting fixed, Bug when displaying lemma spellings fixed.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
23 Apr 2026:
- Web app: v2.5.0, improvements
  (New:) Co-occurence search with definite distance, Statistics on the languages of the lemma translations and the proportion of texts with/without hieroglyphs;
  (Improved:) Copy ID button in the text sentence view, Sorting of token spellings on the lemma page improved, Information on used character sets, Expansion of the part-of-speech table to include glossary abbreviations;
  (Corrected:) Fixed bug in search via thesaurus.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
5 Mar 2026:
- Web app: v2.4.1, improvements
  (new:) Lemma search results with display of subordinate lemmata, Search buttons in thesaurus lists, Website texts in French.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
21 Jan 2026:
- Web app: v2.4, improvements
  (New:) Search for texts/atifacts via metadata (thesauri), Collection of attestations including hierarchy, additional wildcard \w;
  (Improved:) Search for labelings of artifacts/texts including synonyms, Storing the choice of the search form in cookie.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
31 Oct 2025:
- Web app: v2.3.2, improvements
  (Improved:) Help text for search form, Search for none-Unicode signs with <mdc> tag, Search in bibliography and translation implemented as phrase search;
  (Corrected:) Fixed bug in hieroglyph search in lemmata;
  (New:) New wildcard "^", Additional URL button in sentence token view.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
22 Oct 2025:
- Web app: v2.3.1, improvements
  ((Improved:) Hieroglyphs info page;
  (New:) Search for translations and dating in sentences.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, unchanged
10 Oct 2025:
- Web app: v2.3.0, improvements
  (Improved:) Obsolete data entries are omitted from the search;
  (Corrected:) Display of nominal classes restored;
  (New:) Search for hieroglyphs in lemma spellings, search for transliteration or hieroglyphs in sentences.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v20, expanded
18 Sep 2025:
- Web app: v2.2.2, improvements
  (Improved:) Thesaurus information on location more informative, revision status filter is stored in cookie;
  (Corrected:) Sorting function for lemma search restored;
  (New:) Search for texts and objects by name and inside bibliographies.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v19, unchanged
10 Mar 2025:
- Web app: v2.2.1.1, improvements
  (New:) Filter for lemma search by revision status.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v19, unchanged
14 Feb 2025:
- Web app: v2.2.1, improvements
  (Corrected:) Bug in font “EgyptianHiero” v3.03a > v3.03b by Marwan Kilani, outdated help pages adapted to the development status;
  (New:) Object/text hierarchy trees.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v19, unchanged
5 Nov 2024:
- Web app: v2.2.0, improvements
  (Improved:) Default showing/hiding of lemma translations according to browser language preference, hints on comments on sentences in more places;
  (Updated:) Information on corpus, authors, bibliography;
  (Corrected:) Outdated help pages adapted to the development status;
  (New:) Website in Arabic, enumeration of lemma spellings in the corpus, sorting of relation lists of lemmata, separate information page on Parts of Speech.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v19, expanded
26 Jul 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/lemmata/thesauri: v18, unchanged
27 Jun 2024:
- Web app: v2.1.4, improvements
  (Improved:) ID search merged;
  (Corrected:) Bug fixes concerning relations w/o IDs.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v18, unchanged
16 May 2024:
- Web app: v2.1.3, improvements
  (Improved:) Co-occurrence 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/lemmata/thesauri: v18, unchanged
24 Nov 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/lemmata/thesauri: v18, expanded
3 Nov 2023:
- Web app: v2.1.1, improvements
  (Improved:) Bugfix: sentence reading variant enumeration.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v17, unchanged
13 Oct 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/lemmata/thesauri: v17, unchanged (Note: By mistake, only sentence comments from before 2015 are present in this corpus edition.)
8 Aug 2023:
- Web app: v2.0.2.1, improvements
  Addition of metadata on text object page, placeholder strings in search form.
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: v17, unchanged
12 Jul 2023:
- Web app: v2.0.2, improvements
  Basis lemma co-occurrence 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/lemmata/thesauri: v17, unchanged
15 Dec 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/lemmata/thesauri: v17, unchanged
31 Oct 2022:
- Web app: v2.0, development package 1
- Text corpus/lemmata/thesauri: 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
Lemmata: French translation equivalents	✕	partly (hiero. only)
Lemmata: Arabic translation equivalents	✕	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 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	✓	(✓) (hierarchy downwards only)
Lemma search result: incl. hierarchy	✓	✓
Lemma search: incl. composites (ḥm > ḥm-nṯr, ...)	✕	✓
Root search; Lemma search: via root transcription	✕	✓
Lemma search result: sorting	✓	✓
Lemma co-occurrence search	✓	✓
Hieroglyph search	(✓) (lemma form only)	✓ (Unicode)
Sentence search	✕	✓
Lemma pages	✓ (stable IDs)	✓ (citable)
Single sentence pages	✕	✓ (citable)
Occurences list	✓	✓
Occurences list: sorting	✓	✓
Text pages: metadata	✓	✓ (citable)
Text pages: text content (sentences)	✓	✓
Object page	✓	✓
Text/object tree/browser	✓	✓
Text/object search: name	✓	✓
Text/object search: metadata	✕	✓
Thesaurus entry pages	✕	✓ (citable)
Analysis
Word statistics	✓	to come (medium priority)
Collocation analysis	✓	(low priority)
Lexical gravity	✓	✕
Lemmata: computed attestation time span in the TLA corpus	✕	✓
Lemmata: Compilation of hieroglyphic spellings	✕	✓
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, FR, AR
Smartphone compatibility (responsive design)	✕	✓
Print support (layout)	✕	✓
Citation assistance on pages	✕	✓
Share functionality	✕	✓
Feedback form	✕	to come (low priority)
Reuse
Free licensing of data	✕	(✕) (separate raw data publications)
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)	to come (high priority)

Known issues

For a list of known issues, see here.