I'd love to help catalogue & sort symbols -- best
email me directly off-list.
Have you seen the Chinese character libraries on
wikimedia commons? Not the best-organized, but an
awesome task to undertake anyway.
--- David and Jasmine
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> I don't know if people are interested but we
> are running a program form
> alchemical research called HARP (Hieroglyphic
> and Alchemical Recognition
> Program) at my University. Basically it
> originated out of my frantically
> hunting down a symbol for some one for a ritual
> they were doing that
> involved wading through volumes and volumes of
> pics and text to find what
> she wanted as there was little cataloging order
> or crosslinked references on
> the material, just ad hoc collections of
> artwork and disconnected and
> contradictory text. I teamed up with some
> programming postgrads and were
> making a web based program for people to
> catalogue in symbols and artwork
> associated with rituals, alchemy, futhark,
> hieroglyphics etc which can be
> accessed via a search engine based on its
> historicity, ritual use, mythic
> origin and overall shape. The idea is to run
> it like wikipedia with members
> making contributions that can be subjected to
> critique and review by the
> site coordinators and via a forum. Entries
> will have to be cited and we
> want to have sections to differentiate between
> empirical historical takes,
> psychoanalytical views, ritual views and the
> like. We have just finished
> the interface and its a couple of months yet
> before it will be up and
> running ready for trial.
>
> Anyway, while I was going to wait till the
> software is ready and just
> network through friends and colleagues, is
> anyone interested in
> participating as contributors, moderators and
> the like? Its still being put
> together but some recent threads here piked my
> interest in people being
> interested in alchemy and so and being
> interested in more user and public
> friendly means of accessing it.
>
> Anyway its there if people are interested.
> David
>
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