WHP has entered into discussions with the designer of the Mayan Epigraphic Database, Rafael Alvarado (UVA), about collaborating to unite his database with our online Mayan Dictionary, currently under development with consultation from Matthew Restall (Penn State) and edited primarily by new Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student, Kaitlan Smith.
Alvarado’s project started life as an experiment in networked scholarship, something WHP has also been developing with our Distance Research Environment (DRE). We are additionally excited to add glyphs to our Mayan dictionary as a way of bridging classic-period writing systems with colonial and modern Yucatec Mayan. We will also be adding Ch’olan, where necessary, to provide headwords for glyphs that do not express Yucatec Mayan.
