This article discusses the authors' approach in creating a digital library which can be used to access ancient historical documents written in traditional Mongolian script using a query in modern Mongolian (Cyrillic). They introduce a Traditional Mongolian Script Digital Library (TMSDL), which aims to preserve over 800 years of historical records written in traditional Mongolian for future use and to make them available for public viewing. The authors present their approaches to solve two major problems for realizing such a digital library; 1) accessing ancient documents using a query in modern Mongolian, and 2) rendering traditional Mongolian script properly. They implement an "ancient-to-modern information retrieval" method, which takes into account historical differences in the writing systems of the ancient and modern Mongolian languages. The authors' results are explored further in the article.
The attached paper is a draft and reflects current research by the authors. NOTE: It is not to be distributed outside the UTC/L2 because it is intended for eventual publication. However, the authors welcome comments and questions. Please address feedback and questions to: biligsaikhan@gmail.com. Abstract. This paper discusses the rendering issues of complex text layouts, particularly traditional Mongolian script. Solving the rendering issues of complex text layouts is the key fundamental challenge to succeed in the future development of digital libraries. Recently some standards such as Unicode and OpenType format have been implemented and supported widely. Furthermore, traditional Mongolian script has been standardized in Unicode. In this paper, we analyzed existing OpenType fonts and their rendering schemes for traditional Mongolian script. We found some errors, and discovered grammatical rules, which are not documented in international standards. None of the existing OpenType fonts was complete. Lastly, this paper provides some improvements and recommendations for future development.
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