CyrAcademisator - Documentation

Обновлено 25.11.2010 00:08

CyrAcademisator is a transliteration tool for Russian texts.

CyrAcademisator was made especially for academic use at universities and for research purposes. It makes possible a fast conversion of Russian texts to established scientific transliteration styles. A conversion back to Cyrillic is possible, as it is possible to convert from one transliteration to another. Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian characters are recognized and can be entered into the text field with a provided virtual Russian keyboard.

General

CyrAcademisator has been developed for use with Russian language. Cyrillic letters which are of no relevance for modern or historic Russian have been omitted. Most letters may be used in other Slavic languages, too. However, many letters bear a different pronounciation in these languages which is the reason why only Russian language has been taken into consideration.

Please feel free to post questions and feedback at the end of this page.

Usage

After input of the text to be converted and after choosing the desired target style click on the button "transliterate".

On the following page the result of the conversion will be displayed in the top text field while the field below displays the original input.

Target text

It is necessary to indicate the target transliteration style. The target ist to be declared in the right option box below the input field.

Input text: automatic detection

CyrAcademisator tries as default to detect the input style automatically, weither it is a text in Cyrillic or a transliteration. In case it is a transliteration it checks if the text is one of the following styles: ISO-R9, ISO-9, ALA-LC diacritics, GOST 7.79B or Scientific. All other styles are not implemented yet for auto detection. If you face problems see troobleshooting.

Input text: manual choice

It is also possible to determine manually which of which transliteration style the input is. Choose the style of your input (for example ISO R-9, ALA-LC etc.) in the left option box below the input field.

Besides this main function there are other useful tools in CyrAcademisator. See tools.

View and fonts

CyrAcademisator uses an embedded font so all Church Slavonic and diacritic letters (especially ALA-LC) will be displayed. When copying text from CyrAcademisator somewhere else some characters might display wrongly. This problem may be solved by installing the appropriate font locally on your computer: Kliment, RomanCyrillic Std, CampusRoman Std or BukyVede from obshtezhitie, Bulgarian Academy of Science and Kodeks.

Tools

Not all tools work in any browser and some functions require JavaScript or Cookies. Check the indications about compatibility. The basic transliteration functions will still work in all browsers.

Virtual keyboard

The virtual keyboard makes it possible to enter Cyrillic letters, just click the symbol in CyrAcademisator. Source: JavaScript Graphical/Virtual Keyboard Interface. Compatibility:

Automatic conversion

Autoconvert transliterates whole words to Cyrillic when you type Latin and press space. This function is disabled by default. Source: Google AJAX Language API for Transliteration. Compatibility:

Spelling checker

Spell checker for Russian, German, Danish and English. Source: GoogieSpell. Compatibility:

Alternative spell checker for Russian and English. Change languages in the spell checker's menu. Source: API Яндекс.Спеллера. Compatibility:

Dictionaries

The dictionaries look up mouse-selected strings from the text field. The result will open in a new browser window. In addition Google Translate translates the content in the text field with or without selection. Compatibility:

Advanced settings

By using the advanced settings it is possible to individually adapt input and output according to well-established exceptions and variants. In addition it is possible to turn on a detailed conversion and problems report. Compatibility:

Troubleshooting

Notes on the transliteration styles

ISO R/9

Advanced settings: input and output

It is possible to convert from one variant of ISO R/9 to another (From: ISO R/9 - To: ISO R/9 + advanced settings).

Features: A standard from 1968. Allows several exceptions and variants. Due to missing standardisation of Old Church Slavonic letters these will be converted according the Scientific conversion style. Conversion differs between Russian Church Slavonic (modern pronounciation) and Old Church Slavonic.

ISO 9 / GOST 7.79A

Advanced settings: not possible

Features: A standard from 2000. In this case GOST and ISO are congruent. Each modern Cyrillic letter is assigned to a single Latin letter. This standard contains all modern Cyrillic letters regardless their pronounciation in the different languages. Church Slavonic letters are only defined if they are used in a modern language.

GOST 7.79B

Advanced settings: not possible

Features: This standard does not use diacritics. In exchange some letters must be transliterated with more than one Latin letter. Transliterates Church Slavonic only according to modern Russian pronounciation.

Scientifc transliteration

Advanced settings: output

Features: Traditional standard in scientific works. Conversion differs between Russian Church Slavonic (modern pronounciation) and Old Church Slavonic.

ALA-LC

Transliteration from ALA-LC to Cyrillic works correctly only with the use of the correspondent diacritic letters! See also: ALA-LC Romanization Tables. When transliterationg from Cyrillic to ALA-LC the diacritics can be turned off in the advanced settings.

Advanced settings: output

Features: Scientific standard in the English-speaking countries. Diacritics may be turned of in the advanced settings. Conversion differs between Russian Church Slavonic (modern pronounciation) and Old Church Slavonic.

Translit

Advanced settings: not possible

Features: Recommended only as a makeshift. No standard in a narrower sense, however widely used. Many variants, no diacritics. Transliterates Church Slavonic only according to modern Russian pronounciation.

Duden

Die Duden-Transliteration gilt in den deutschsprachigen Ländern als Standard für die Transliteration des Russischen. Die verschiedenen Teile der Transliteration werden in der Öffentlichkeit aber regelmäßig missachtet, zum Teil aus guten Gründen. Die verschiedenen Sonderregeln können daher einzeln in den erweiterten Einstellungen ausgeschaltet werden.

Dansk Sprognævn

The Danish standard for transliteration of Russian is defined by Dansk Sprognævn, the Danish Language Committee. Some inaccuracies of this standard can be changed in the advanced settings: change of the transliteration of ж to zj (instead of sj, which is aready used for ш).

Embed CyrAcademisator to your own web site

Joomla

The CyrAcademisator module for Joomla contains a simple form for setting input/output style and the virtual Russian keyboard.

The module can be modified in the backend (see picture). It is localised for the languages English, German, Russian and Danish.

If you only need the keyboard and not CyrAcademisator then go to JavaScript Graphical/Virtual Keyboard Interface.

Embedding form with HTML

CyrAcademisator may be embedded into other web sites (check the example on the right).

Following code may be freely used and modified.

<script  type="text/javascript"   src="http://podolak.net/libraries/tastatur/keyboarden.js"   charset="UTF-8"></script><link rel="stylesheet"   type="text/css"   href="http://podolak.net/libraries/tastatur/keyboard.css">
<p><b>Academic transliteration of Russian</b></p>
<script  type="text/javascript" src="/libraries/tastatur/keyboarden.js"  charset="UTF-8"></script>
<form name="frm"  action="http://podolak.net/en/russian-studies/cyracademisator"  method="GET">
 <input name="text" class="keyboardInput" id="text"  type="text"><br>
 <select name="in" size="1">
 <optgroup label="From:">
 <option  value="kyrillisch">Cyrillic</option>
 <option  value="isor9">ISO-R 9</option>
 <option  value="iso9">ISO 9 (GOST 7.79A)</option>
 <option  value="gost779b">GOST 7.79B</option>
 <option  value="wissenschaftlich">Scientific</option>
 <option value="alalc">ALA-LC diacritics</option>
 <option  value="bgndigr">BGN/PCGN (interpuncts)</option>
 <option   value="bgn">BGN/PCGN</option>
 <option  value="british">British  Standard</option>
 <option selected="selected"  value="translit">Translit</option>
 </optgroup>
 </select>
 <p>Translitate to:</p>
 <select name="out" size="1">
 <optgroup label=" To:">
 <option selected="selected"  value="kyrillisch">Cyrillic</option>
 <option  value="isor9">ISO-R 9</option>
 <option  value="iso9">ISO 9 (GOST 7.79A)</option>
 <option  value="gost779b">GOST 7.79B</option>
 <option  value="wissenschaftlich">Scientific</option>
 <option value="alalc">ALA-LC diacritics</option>
 <option value="british">British Standard</option>
 <option value="translit">Translit</option>
 <option value="duden">Duden</option>
 <option  value="sprognaevn">Sprognævn</option>
 </optgroup>
 </select>
 <br>
 <input name="senden"  value="Transliterate" type="submit">
 <br>
</form>
<p><a  href="http://podolak.net/en/russian-studies/cyracademisator"  href="http://podolak.net/de/studium-russlandseiten/cyracademisator">CyrAcademisator main page</a></p>

Embed to LibX

Furthermore it is possible to embed CyrAcademisator to the research add-on LibX by adding it to the catalogues. In LibX you may then choose between 10 predefined transliteration pairs. To embed it to the own edition of LibX, I recommend to use the solution used in the LibX edition "Library catalogues lookup for Russian and Slavic studies in Copenhagen" which can be found in the edition builder. Add CyrAcademisator to your edition by entering podolak.net/en/russian-studies/cyracademisator under "Catalogues & Databases" > "Auto detection". Then you will be able to choose "CyrAcademisator - Latin < > Cyrillic".

Questions & Feedback

Please post them below as a comment.