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Egyptological computing

This is a list of Egyptological computing developments, arranged chronologically, the background color alternating with each year. Suggestions for inclusion are welcome (email to computing_list @hieroglyphs.net but without the space before @). Categories currently of interest (although all are not yet necessarily represented here) include

  • writing software
  • educational software
  • dictionary data/software
  • notation software
  • fonts
  • documents
  • communications
  • site data/software

Apart from being interesting in its own right, this list, we hope, will help folks easily be able to see what has been done and what has not yet been done and chose their projects accordingly.

Why do some programs have multiple listings? We've chosen to separately list new versions when there have been significant changes. Examples would be when a program is rewritten to run in a different operating system (WinGlyph going from DOS to Win3.1 to Win95+), or to produce radically different output (Hierowriter output going from pure HTML to GIFs to PNG/JPEGs).

What is the significance of the date? The date we're interested in is not the date the project was developed, but the date the project was made available to the public. Corrections in this, in particular, are most welcome.

That's what I've been looking for! How do I pay you? You don't. We list the price simply as a point of information. It may, in fact, even be wrong. Follow the link to the item's page and continue your search for buying information from there.

How can I suggest items for you to add? Send us an email at computing_list @hieroglyphs.net but without the space before @. We don't guarantee that everything suggested will be included, but since we're looking to make this fairly comprehensive, most suggestions probably will be added.
 
Link Date Title Creator(s) Type Notes Price
  Jun 1985 Manuel de codage J. Burmann,
N. Grimal,
M. Hainsworth,
D. van der Plas		 document Full title is Manuel de codage des textes hiéroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie sur ordinateur (Manual for the encoding of hieroglyphic texts for computer input). not applicable
1991 Digitized Slip Archive of the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften dictionary data Web-based. This is a searchable database of images of hand-drawn slips upon which the Wörterbuch is based. free
see below Aug 25, 1993 WinGlyph v1.11 Hans van den Berg/CCER writing software PC-based see below
1994 Beinlich Wordlist Horst Beinlich,
Friedhelm Hoffmann		 dictionary data A list (in German) of common words and their transliterations. 16957 entries. Nigel Strudwick has introduced a web-based version. free
see below 1994 MacScribe v1.3 Eric Aubourg writing software Macintosh-based. see below
see below Mar 11, 1994 WinGlyph v1.1 Hans van den Berg/CCER writing software PC-based see below
see below Fall 1994 GlyphScribe v1 Maui Code Works writing software DOS-based. see below
Dec 20, 1994 HieroTeX/Sesh Serge Rosmorduc writing software LaTeX-based (Sesh ported to DOS via Michael Gierhake, January 27, 1997). free
Oct 1995 WinGlyph v1.2 Hans van den Berg/CCER writing software Win3.1+-based $242.00
(free demo available)
[info as of June 2000]
see below Fall 1996 GlyphScribe v2 Maui Code Works writing software Win3.1-based. see below
Feb 6, 1997 AEL Mark Wilson communications Ancient Egyptian Language list. An email-based discussion list for topics related to the ancient Egyptian language. Periodically collaborates on translations of documents. free
Aug 25, 1997 Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in ISO/IEC 10646-2 Michael Everson document Discussion paper of a proposed encoding standard. not applicable
Sep 18, 1997 Proposal to encode Basic Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 Michael Everson document Adjunct to discussion paper of a proposed encoding standard (see above). not applicable
Feb 19, 1998 EEF Aayko Eyma,
Geoffrey Graham		 communications Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. An email-based discussion list for conferencing on the culture and civilization of ancient Egypt c. 5000 BCE - 622 CE; for academics working in Egyptology and other persons interested in ancient Egypt. free
Jul 10, 1998 Proceedings of the IAE Computer Working Group Round Table IAE Computer Working Group document July 8-10 1998, hosted by CCER/Utrecht University. not applicable
Nov 1998 Tksesh Serge Rosmorduc notation software TCL/TK-based. Unix and Windows. A system for handling hieroglyphic databases. Allows philologists to consult texts, search lexical information, write translations and notes, and share the result of one's work. Includes a hieroglyphic editor, a dictionary editor, full text-search facilities, and a translation editor. Tksesh is NOT intended for printing texts. free
see below Mar 4, 1999 MacScribe v2.0.2 Eric Aubourg writing software Macintosh-based. see below
Oct 4, 1999 Response to comments on the question of encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs in the UCS (N2096) Michael Everson document What the title says. This is substantial discussion of the proposal as opposed to its presentation. In general, see http://www.egt.ie/sc2wg2.html for Unicode expansion proposals. not applicable
see below Fall 1999 Hierowriter v1 Hieroglyphs.net writing software Web-based. Uses HTML to place images. free
Fall 1999 Lookup v1 Hieroglyphs.net dictionary software Web-based. Search by English word, transliteration, or Gardiner code. Allows limited regular expression searches. Output includes English, transliteration, hieroglyphs, and Gardiner codes. 850+ entries. free
Mar 2000 Hierowriter v2 Hieroglyphs.net writing software Web-based. Perl script and GD to assemble composite GIF images. free
Mar 2000 Compose Hieroglyphs.net educational software Web-based. Generates hieroglyphic sentences from English word menus. free
Spring 2000 GlyphScribe v3 Maui Code Works writing software Win95+-based. $69.95
(free demo available)
[info as of June 2000]
May 2000 mdc2html Geoffrey Norman Watson writing software Perl script for assembling images of hieroglyphs from MdC hieroglyphic texts into HTML pages. free
Nov 12, 2000 GlyphTutor v1 Lucas Venter educational software Win95+. Drills users on bi- and triliterals. $20
(free demo available)
[info as of July 2000]
Dec 2000 AELalight/AELalign Mark-Jan Nederhof translation support software Web-based. Aligns various translations and transliterations below a hieroglyphic text. free
Feb 4, 2001 AEL Viewer v1.0.0.10 Michel Mudde hieroglyph display software Windows-based. Converts MdC encoded hieroglyphic texts into their graphical representation. As of October 19, 2001 the current version is 1.0.2.1. free
Apr 2001 Sign lists Mark-Jan Nederhof document A presentation of the coding systems used in various basic and extended hieroglyph sign lists. See also http://www.dfki.de/~nederhof/AEL/software.html. not applicable
Apr 2001 Electronic encoding of transliteration Mark-Jan Nederhof document A brief discussion of transliteration of ancient Egyptian into the latin alphabet with reference to Unicode encoding. See also http://www.dfki.de/~nederhof/AEL/software.html. not applicable
Apr 10, 2001 MacScribe v2.0.9 Eric Aubourg writing software Macintosh-based. $200.00
(free demo available)
[info as of June 2000]
May 16, 2001 Giza Archives Project Boston Museum of Fine Arts (contact Peter Manuelian) site data/software An ambitious 4-year project to digitize and present on the Web resources related to the Harvard/MFA excavations at Giza from 1905 though 1942. free
May 18, 2001 Amanuense v3.2 Juan de la Torre Suárez writing software Win95+. Spanish. $56.00
(free demo available)
[info as of June 2000]
Jun 2001 Hierowriter v3 Hieroglyphs.net writing software Web-based. C program using gd (with Freetype) to generate PNG and JPEG images from hieroglyphs fonts, from text input in MdC. free
Jun 2001 GlyphKey v2.1 Carlos Galucci translation software Win95+. Translates AE hieroglyphs into Castilian, English, and German. $42.00
[info as of June 2000]
Nov 1, 2001 Glyphomat v0.1 Helmar Wodtke writing software Web-based program to convert MdC to PDF output. Includes a friendly palette for selecting and arranging glyphs. First public release. free
Nov 28, 2001 [Forum mit Hieroglyphen] Helmar Wodtke message board A web-based message board (in German) that allows subscribers to post messages containg hieroglyphs using Manuel de Codage input. See http://forum.aegyptologie-chat.de/YaBBHelp/index.html, item number 10. free
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