Актуальные вопросы тюркологических исследований

537 Actual Problems of Turkic Studies be identified clearly in other sources. Orkun [9], Malov [7] and Kormušin [4; 5] of-fer attempts of readings and translations. Vasil’ev [21] has the most comprehen-sive corpus of 145 Yenisei inscriptions, including drawings and (retouched) photographs. For the Altai region, Tybykova et al. [19] contains about 90 me-morials with descriptions, photographs and drawings. The most recent study on inscriptions from Kyrgyzstan is Aydın et al. [2]. Among the studies on the Late Avar inscriptions, Vásáry [20], Róna-Tas [12], Róna-Tas & Göbl [13], and Szalontai & Károly [15] deserve mentioning. There are also some online resources on Turkic runiform inscriptions with limited use of digital technologies, such as “Türikbitik”, a database by the Min- istry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://bitig. org), which contains lots of materials, including photographs, some of which might contribute to the solution of otherwise unreadable passages; the web site “Pam-jatniki runičeskogo pis’ma Gornogo Altaja” which contains about 90 inscrip-tions from the Altai region (http://www.altay.uni-frankfurt.de ), as well as inter-net resources of lesser academic value such as “Gök Türkçe & Orhun Yazıtları” (http://orhunyazitlari.appspot.com ) and “Turkic World” (http:// turkicworld.org) . What is still missing is a complete catalogue of all the runiform inscrip- tions of potentially Turkic provenance. Inscriptions in Bulgaria, Romania, the Caucasus and the Pontic-Caspian steppe resist decipherment in a particularly stubborn way. These groups of inscriptions will hardly ever be deciphered by purely conventional means, unless larger or bilingual monuments will be dis- covered. The Mainz Database The Mainz Database runs on MediaWiki (https://www.mediawiki.org ), a free and open-source wiki application developed by theWikimedia Foundation. The software was originally designed to run “Wikipedia”, but nowadays it serves as platform for thousands of web sites, such as “Project Gutenberg” offering over 49,000 free e-books in a structured form (http://www.gutenberg.org) . Me-diaWiki is a collaborative web-based application that supports tracking edits, content organisation, controlling and restricting access or customising the look-out. Hundreds of available extensions allow MediaWiki to be more advanced and useful for various project plans. The evidentially most important extension used in the Mainz database is Semantic MediaWiki (http://semantic-mediawiki.org, hereinafter SMW) that turns MediaWiki into a dynamic knowledge management system. SMW and its special extensions allow among others tagging, organising, browsing, evaluating and displaying data stored in the database. For instance, complex