[Buddha-l] [Fwd: [***] Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology, May 26-27, 2007, New York]

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

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Onderwerp: 	[***] Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology, May 
26-27, 2007, New York
Datum: 	Wed, 23 May 2007 12:56:24 +1000
Van: 	T.Matthew Ciolek <tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au>
Aan: 	asia-www-monitor at coombs.anu.edu.au



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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  late May 2007, Vol. 14, No. 6 (263)
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22 May 2007

Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology, May 26-27, 2007, New York

Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library, New York, NY, US

Supplied note: "Trace Foundation's Latse Library is pleased to 
announce: Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology: A Workshop 
on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in Windows Vista

May 26-27, 2007 at Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library, 132 
Perry St., #2B, New York, NY

The Workshop on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in 
Windows Vista will explore the history of computing in Tibetan, the 
development of Tibetan Unicode by dedicated IT professionals, 
organizations, and individuals, and finally the commitment to Tibetan 
Unicode by Microsoft with the inclusion of Tibetan language support 
in the Windows Vista operating system. The two-day workshop will 
include demonstrations on how to implement Tibetan Unicode in a 
variety of applications, and how to use the Tibetan features in Vista.

General schedule and topics covered:
Saturday, May 26 Morning Session (9:15 am - 12 pm) Brief history of 
computing in Tibetan; Implementation of Tibetan Unicode; How Windows 
Vista supports Tibetan; Tibetan Unicode supported in other major 
operating systems (Mac and Linux); Tibetan OpenType font; Tibetan 
keyboards; Himalaya Unicode font.
Saturday, May 26 Afternoon Session (2 pm - 5 pm) Using Tibetan in 
Office 2007; Web pages, blogs, and instant messaging in Tibetan; 
Discussion, practice and consultation.
Sunday, May 27 Morning Session (10 am - 12:30 pm) Converting legacy 
Tibetan data to Unicode data; Bugs in Tibetan language features of 
Windows Vista and Office 2007; Developing OpenType fonts for other 
types of traditional Tibetan fonts; Designing your own Tibetan 
keyboard; Developing a Tibetan spelling and grammar checker; Tibetan 
web page and blog development; Tibetan capable search engine; 
Designing software with Tibetan interface.
Sunday, May 27 Afternoon Session (2 pm - 3:30 pm) Discussion, 
practice and consultation.

Schedule subject to change. Please check our website calendar for 
updates: [at the URL below]

The Workshop on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in 
Windows Vista will feature presenters Tashi Tsering, Christopher 
Walker and Yeshi Tashi. Tibetan-English / English-Tibetan translation 
will be provided as needed. The workshop is designed to provide 
practical information to a general audience, as well as more detailed 
discussion for professional applications. Each day will close with a 
Discussion, Practice and Consultation period, so please feel free to 
bring along your laptop and any questions.

The workshop is free and open to the public. - ec."

URL http://www.latse.org/calendar/index.html

Internet Archive 
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.latse.org/calendar/index.html

Link reported by: Eric Colombel (ecolombel--at--trace.org)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. 
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Corporate Info.
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Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - 
marginal]:
Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000
 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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