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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:06:02AM +0100, Federico Aurora wrote: > I am glad to announce that a first searchable version of DĀMOS (Database of > Mycenaean at Oslo) is now accessible at: > > https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/ This looks very interesting, thanks for sharing. Are there unicode codepoints / fonts available for representing Linear B? Because it would be lovely to have that available as well as the transliteration. Admittedly I'm not very familiar with Linear B at all, but I do love looking at old scripts ;) You could use WOFF to embed an appropriate font in the page, so as not to rely on people having one installed. The requirement to be logged in to view the notes is obviously troubling. I presume (based on the note in the "about" section) it's due to fear of copyright infringement of the notes of others, which are still in copyright. I do hope you can find a way to make them freely available, whether by seeking permission from copyright holders, deciding that notes like these aren't generally copyrightable, or some other strategy. Also you mentioned translations in your announcement. Are they coming later? Browsing across the site I couldn't find them. Also how are you planning to represent the morphology / syntax annotations you're currently doing? Finally, one thing that annoys me about the navigation is that once one clicks on an option from the lists, the other options disappear until "reset" is hit. This was no doubt deliberate, but feels unnecessary to me, and means I can't look at other results without pressing "reset". Keeping the entry highlighted should make it just as clear what is currently selected. But anyway, that's just a small taste thing. Great work, thanks again for sharing it. Nick White (P.S. I'm relatively new to the list; if this is the sort of thing that is best left to a private email, let me know)