Nouvelles de JSesh
Les versions récentes de Mac OS X (et Windows 10) supposent que les nouvelles applications soient installées par le biais d'un Store. Apple a été un pionnier dans ce domaine avec l'Apple Store, créé à l'origine pour l'IPhone.
Ces boutiques en ligne sont très pratiques. Elles fournissent un moye...
I'd like to feature a very fine resource created by a number of colleagues (as of today : Ivan Rodríguez López, Naglaa Ezzeldeen, Thiago Ribeiro and Emilio Bosio) about the Book of the Dead, the Synoptic Edition of Book of the Dead Spell Sources from the 21st Dynasty (STaTbS21D Project for short)....
I have recently received a JSesh rendering of three interesting texts typed by Tariq Hanafi Ahmed:
- O. DM 1057 (an very interesting love spell);
- O. Náprstek Museum P 2027 (lively letter about family problems and request for food);
- O. P. Leiden I 353 (caption to an amuletic text).
They...
Some resources for those among you who are not afraid of code:
Mark-Jan Nederhof has created a new OCR software for hieroglyphs. It's a research project, so you need to be prepared to face python code, but you can download it at https://github.com/nederhof/hocr.
He has already created another...
The team working on hieroglyphs and unicode is working hard, and Andrew Glass, who is a specialist of OpenTypes, has produced a very nice font which can handle the new Unicode operators.
You will find it in Andrew Glass's font tools project.
If you want the font, you can download it from this...
A few years ago, we were asked to produce a number of signs, mainly from the Old Kingdom.
M. Serge P. Thomas (mostly) and Serge Rosmorduc (for a small part) have therefore produced versions of these signs. Furthermore, in addition to those, M. Thomas has sent a set of interesting revisions of sign...
On “recent” windows computers (well, after Windows 7 if I remember well, which means recent means something like less than ten years old), the user is protected against installing unsigned softwares.
To make a long story short, this is a trend which began on smartphones, with the creation of app...
Our colleagues at the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia are definitly very active regarding open data. They have published a lot of interesting ressources :
Our colleagues of the Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus have created two meta-search engines.
A followup to my old post about deep learning...
An egyptological coverage of my work has been published in Lingua Aegyptia, with full details. I still intend to write something more computer-science oriented, only it always moves to the bottom of my todo list.
Then I have been happy to fi...