ORAEC’s blog

The ORAEC project is blogging here.

You wonder who we are and what we do here? Take a look at our first post 😉.

tl;dr We support Egyptology in digitization, especially in the field of Egyptian texts.

Posts

Oct 12, 2025
A keyboard for typing hieroglyphs
Jul 11, 2025
Spelling overviews for the TLA lemmas
Oct 25, 2024
Basic Egyptian Vocabulary
Aug 17, 2024
Digitization of Coptic Etymologies
Jun 6, 2024
New project in our metasearch engine: AED
Jun 5, 2024
SITH Karnak
May 17, 2024
Rosetta Stone
May 14, 2024
Best Practice Projects: STaTbS21D
May 6, 2024
Unicode Recommendations Checker
Apr 29, 2024
Papyrus Prisse
Apr 24, 2024
New Unicode Texts
Apr 19, 2024
ORAEC and Osiris Spelling Software
Apr 10, 2024
Egyptological Open Access Journals
Feb 9, 2024
Update for the Metasearch Engine, a Correction and two Announcements
Dec 21, 2023
How to cite digital tools or can we trust their stability?
Dec 19, 2023
Minor improvements
Dec 2, 2023
ORAEC and Prosopographia Aegypti
Nov 11, 2023
Evaluation of our survey on Egyptological transliteration fonts
Nov 1, 2023
ORAEC and STaTbS21D
Oct 19, 2023
Text display in the new TLA
Oct 12, 2023
Survey: Egyptological Transliteration Fonts
Sep 27, 2023
Automatic Transliteration of Hieroglyphs
Sep 19, 2023
Celebrate with us! ORAEC is one year old.
Sep 15, 2023
Review of hieroglyphs.ai
Sep 1, 2023
CC-BY requires stable bibliographic data
Aug 28, 2023
AI chatbots are sophists
Aug 24, 2023
Leiden Unified Transliteration
Jul 25, 2023
ORAEC and VÉgA
Jul 8, 2023
ORAEC and Voyant
Jun 24, 2023
ChatGPT and Egyptology - an experience report
Jun 22, 2023
ORAEC Search
Jun 1, 2023
Guest post: Early Egyptian inscriptions matter or why is the phonetic value of 𓍋 mr
May 10, 2023
Metasearch engine for Egyptian hieroglyphs
May 5, 2023
Roadmap and preliminary work for a hieroglyphic metasearch engine
Feb 20, 2023
Lifting a treasure - web scraping of the new TLA using the demotic corpus as an example
Feb 13, 2023
TF-IDF
Feb 9, 2023
Type token ratio
Feb 2, 2023
Text statistics
Jan 27, 2023
Frequency of hieroglyphs
Jan 20, 2023
ORAEC and Wikidata
Dec 19, 2022
Bacon number and cooccurrence network
Dec 16, 2022
MdC to Unicode converter
Dec 7, 2022
Collocations
Dec 4, 2022
ORAEC and Trismegistos
Nov 30, 2022
cc-by-sa and cc0
Nov 23, 2022
Two trivia
Nov 17, 2022
Review of the new TLA - Part four
Nov 16, 2022
Review of the new TLA - Part three
Nov 15, 2022
Review of the new TLA - Part two
Nov 14, 2022
Review of the new TLA - Part one
Nov 3, 2022
Review of keyboards for Egyptological transcription
Oct 30, 2022
Next steps
Oct 23, 2022
Hooray, our text corpus is online.
Oct 18, 2022
Stable IDs for Egyptian texts
Oct 14, 2022
Four challenges when converting AES
Oct 10, 2022
Missing Unicode characters and further mapping problems
Oct 1, 2022
Converting Manuel de Codage to Unicode
Sep 28, 2022
Recommendations for encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs in Unicode
Sep 19, 2022
Happy birthday, Egyptology!