Ethiopic Variation Database (EVD)

The Ethiopian Variation Database is a subject of the EMUFI initiative that has as its objective the cataloging and publication of a simple database of the variant glyphs within the Ethiopic inventory. The variation database is developed to help organize, review, and manage variant collections for the EMFUI project. The project artifacts will be consumed directly by EMUFI as its primary resource for variants.

The Ethiopic Variation Database is loosely modeled after the Unicode Consortium's Ideographic Variant Database.

Target work products of the EVD:

• Identification of the "Primary Variants".
• A data file in the format of the StandardizedVariants.txt file from the Unicode Character Database (UCD).
• A Unicode Variation Selectors file compatible with applications like High-Logic's FontCreator.
• A companion attestations file to the above resources applying the JSON CSL schema (Zotero compatible) that extends the database with references.
• A tabular presentation of the catalog in both web and PDF formats (document generation will utilize the database in JSON).

See Also

• EMUFI - the Ethiopic Manuscript Unicode Font Initiative (the parent project of this project)
• Ethiopic Ligation Database - a companion project for cataloging Ethiopic ligatures.