This document summarizes the history and current state of BHSA (Basic Handwritten Script Analysis) tools. It describes early tools like EMDROS and SHEBANQ, as well as more recent projects like Text-Fabric that encode texts in a graph structure with minimal encoding. Text-Fabric files separate each feature of the data into individual files for easy processing and combination. The document outlines Text-Fabric data, sharing, starting with the tool, publishing with it, and available apps and corpora. It promotes Text-Fabric's concepts of transparent, contributor-friendly encodings and provides links to relevant GitHub repositories and tutorials.

1. BHSA over the years
Dirk Roorda, DANS
@ETCBC vakgroepsvergadering 2018-09-24
github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
slideshare.net/dirkroorda

2. EMDROS (<= 2012)
github.com/emdros/emdros

3. SHEBANQ (2013-)
shebanq.ancient-data.org

4. LAF-Fabric (2013-2016)
laf-fabric.readthedocs.io

5. LAF is a bit much

6. Text-Fabric (2016-)
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric

7. Text-Fabric Data
every column is a separate file, corresponding to precisely one feature of the data
gword trailer gword_utf8 trailer_utf8 pdp
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric

8. Text-Fabric sharing
github.com/ETCBC/lingo/tree/master/heads

9. Text-Fabric start
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric

10. Text-Fabric browser

11. Text-Fabric publish

12. Cunei
• 6000 tablets
• porto-cuneiform
• from Uruk
• 4000-3100 BC
github.com/Nino-cunei/uruk

13. Text-Fabric apps

14. Text-Fabric corpora
• Greek New Testament
• Syriac New Testament
• Sanskrit Purāṇa Literature
• Patristics
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric-data

15. Patristics
github.com/pthu/pilot

16. Text-Fabric concepts
annotated text as graph
minimalistic encoding
transparent files
designed for data processing
easy to combine
contributor friendly
programming is hard enough 😎
we can make it easier 🤓
and nicer☺
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric

17. BHSA tutorials
github.com/ETCBC/bhsa/tree/master/tutorial

18. you can do it 💪
github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric
github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
github.com/ETCBC/lingo/tree/master/heads
shebanq.ancient-data.org
github.com/pthu/pilot
slideshare.net/dirkroorda