Unicode Implementation in the Yale Catalog With reference to African scripts Charles Riley ~ Yale University Library New England Code4Lib, Hampshire College, Dec. 5, 2012

Enabling search & display in non-Latin scripts Traditionally supported in libraries for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Yiddish Also now supported (since 2006, by OCLC) for Thai, Tamil, Bengali and Devanagari OCLC has more recently introduced support for Ethiopic, Syriac, and Armenian Becoming increasingly important for African scripts with successive releases of Unicode (5.0 and later)

African scripts in Unicode Ethiopic Vai Tifinagh N’ko Osmanya Bassa Vah Mende Kikakui Bamum Adlam

African scripts in the Yale Library Catalog Ethiopic Vai Tifinagh N’ko

Establishing Documentation for Cataloging Reference Ethiopic: http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/Ethiopic-script Extended Latin: http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/quick-reference- guide-to-extended-latin-used-in-african-languages Vai: http://web.library.yale.edu/notes-cataloging-vai-script Tifinagh: http://web.library.yale.edu/notes-cataloging-tifinagh-script N’ko: [Forthcoming]

Screenshots of sample records N’ko (on Windows 10, Edge Browser) Vai (on Windows 10, Edge Browser)

Examples of support still awaited Windows Mac Font for Adlam script Browser support for Bamum, Bassa Vah, Mende Kikakui Font for Adlam script Browser support for Bassa Vah, Mende Kikakui

Further work to be done Script Encoding Text Processing Bété Kpelle Loma Masaba Translation of 1913 Vai manuscript (nearly finished) Transcription of Bamum manuscripts in the Endangered Archives program and at the Musée du Quai Branly Romanization tables