One central task for the upcoming years will be the migration of the database underlying the Dictionary, Bibliography and Catalog from its current custom PostgreSQL schema to a more standardized and maintainable infrastructure. In the roadmap that I developed for the Bavarian Academy’s Gandhāra project, much of the initial technical work concerns the conversion of […]

Earlier this week, the Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz von Bund und Ländern approved the establishment of a new project in Gandhāran manuscript studies at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The project will have a runtime of twenty‐one years (2012–32) and provide four research positions and one technical position. During the first fourteen years (2012–25), the […]