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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The OG(H)AM project's final Og(h)am of the Month for July 2025, in memory of Dr Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk and in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to ogam scholarship and of his support for our project. ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Soon on immarkus.xmarkus.org : select your favorite models from Huggingface, the Github of AI models; or add your own. Turns out freely available Chinese models like QWEN perform well on early printed Latin texts -better than others. Get in touch if interested in testing or further collaboration.

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April Wei-West @aprilw.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Not only a fiercely competent Sinologist (though he would never admit that), but also the best and most loving dad. The grief is as a shoreless sea.

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · 30/07/2025

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we, the family of Andrew West, confirm his peaceful passing on 10th July 2025. The BabelStone legacy will be continued by colleagues and friends. corp.unicode.org/pipermail/un...

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Andrew C. West 魏安 1960–2025

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Dr West was one of the most remarkable scholars out there. He could read scripts that were extinct for a millennium -- Tangut, Khitan, Sanskrit, Tibetan; derive meaning from even tiny scraps of paper that time had preserved for us. May Dr. West be reborn in the Pure Land of Amithaba

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · 22/10/2024

Me in August 2016 with the enormous Tangut inscription standing at the entrance to the Western Xia tombs near Yinchuan ...

Andrew West wearing sandals, jeans, and a red shirt, carrying a tote bag with Tangut writing on it, standing next to a huge replica of a Tangut inscription on an irregular-shaped piece of stone

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Incunabula @incunabula.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2

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Viacheslav Zaytsev @cosmicore.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

These 6 characters and the Jin Emperor's signature mark are all that remain of the 12th-century Jurchen Small Script! @babelstone.co.uk and I submitted a proposal for its Unicode encoding – a vital step for covering all four extinct #Khitan and #Jurchen scripts. www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n53...

Jurchen Small Script páizǐ (travel passes or symbols of authority)

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · 25/05/2025

First step towards the encoding of Jurchen *small script* characters, by @cosmicore.bsky.social and myself www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n53...

Gold paizi found in Chengde, Hebei in 1972, with a vertical inscription in Jurchen small script characters (two clusters of three characters each) beneath a huaya 花押 symbol. Photograph courtesy of Vladimir Belyaev.

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Yuta Hashimoto @yuta1984.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For Japanese Studies folks: I’ve ported the NDL’s kuzushiji OCR to run directly in your web browser. ndlkotenocr-lite-web.netlify.app No GPU or installation needed. First-time use may take a few minutes to download the model, but after that, it should transcribe each image in about ten seconds.

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Buddhist Digital Resource Center @buddhistarchive.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

BDRC is excited to announce the release of the first publicly available desktop app for Tibetan OCR. This is a beta release and we plan to further refine the OCR models and add additional functionality. For the full story and github download link, visit our news site. www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/03...

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BDRC Announces the Release of OCR app for Tibetan - Buddhist Digital Resource Center

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan.

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Transliterating Japanese like an Assyriologist: 🤨 すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である。 su-be-te-no REN.JIAN-wá, SHENG-ma-re-na-ga-ra-ni ši-te ZI.YOU-de a-ri, ka-tsu, ZUN.YAN-to QUAN.LI-to-ni tsu-i-te PING.DENG-de a-ru. 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.'

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Viacheslav Zaytsev @cosmicore.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

A new volume on #Tangut studies dedicated to the anniversary of Prof. Mikhail Sofronov has just been published. Happy to have received a copy from our Editor Sergey Dmitriev! 🙏 Lots of great studies inside, including two modest ones, co-authored by me with @babelstone.bsky.social and Chung-pui Tai.

Тангутская и китайская филология. К юбилею М. В. Софронова [Tangut and Chinese Philology. To the Anniversary of M. V. Sofronov]. Moscow: Институт востоковедения РАН [Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 2024. ISBN 978-5-907846-10-4.

Tai, Chung-pui, and Viacheslav Zaytsev. “Tibetan Buddhism practice of the great seal (mahāmudrā) as recorded in Tangut fragments with Tibetan phonetic glosses: an annotated sentence-based reading of Tang. 1075/Fr. 6(11)”.

Zaytsev, Viacheslav, and Andrew West. “Preliminary study of a manuscript fragment in an unidentified script from the Western Xia Shānzuǐgōu site”.

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