What is ScriptShifter and its Applications?
ScriptShifter is an open-source software tool and live service developed by the Library of Congress. It transliterates non-Latin scripts to Latin script and vice versa, following the ALA-LC Romanization Tables. The tool is being developed to assist in the bibliographic description of non-Latin script materials acquired by the Library of Congress as well as in authority records that support the bibliographic records. It can be used wherever it would be appropriate to provide the ALA-LC Romanization of a non-Latin script or derive non-Latin script from an ALA-LC Romanization.
This tool was developed for LC's BIBFRAME system and is an important part of the BIBFRAME
Marva editor. It can be adapted to other Library Management Systems also. More technical details
and information for integration are found on the following GitHub site:
https://github.com/lcnetdev/scriptshifter/
Using the ScriptShifter service supported by the Library of Congress, a tool has been developed
by Princeton University East Asian Library for performing script conversion in the OCLC Connexion
Client. Further details and installation instructions can be found on Princeton's GitHub site:
https://github.com/pulibrary/oclcscriptshifter#readme
PCC Guidelines for Creating Bibliographic Records in Multiple Character Sets
