Dear Nathan,
There may be more generic transliteration scripts out there that I
don't know about, but some work in this direction was carried out by
Fabian Körner in Berlin, and is currently a demo webservice called the
Historical Transliteration Tool: see
<https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Historical_Transliteration_Tool>.
(I don't think the code is open sourced yet, but Fabian may correct me
on that.) It currently transliterates from Unicode Ancient Greek to
19th-Century English, but is designed to be extensible to allow
different values on both sides of the conversion, with the addition of
simple dictionaries. This may or may not be a useful step in the
direction of what you need.
All best,
Gabby
On 4 January 2016 at 20:45, Nathan Gibson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Digital Classicists,
>
> We have some bibliography items in modern Greek that we are citing on some
> of our Syriaca.org pages. While we want to provide the original titles in
> Greek, we also suppose many of our users do not read Greek, and we would
> like for them to at least have a some idea of what is being cited, even
> though they cannot read the item itself. So, ideally, we would like to
> generate a transliteration for these users into Latin script.
>
> My question is, which transliteration standard would you recommend that is
> compatible with machine-transliteration from Greek into Latin characters?
> (It probably does not need to be fully reversible.) ISO 893, ALA-LC, or
> something else? Also, do you have a recommendation for a script that will do
> the transliteration?
>
> Happy New Year!
> Nathan
>
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