{"id":115,"date":"2014-03-22T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:41:22","slug":"completeness-of-the-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Completeness of the Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new volume on South Asian Buddhist manuscripts (<a href=\"http:\/\/verlag.oeaw.ac.at\/product?info=15091&#038;xaf26a=3f1a038cd02c2ef6f1c95f41f43c87db\"><i>From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research<\/i><\/a>) has just been published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It brings together papers from the 2009 conference \u2018Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: The State of the Field\u2019 at Stanford University and provides the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the topic available. In spite of its title (adapted from my 2012 paper \u201c<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=138\">From Birch Bark to Digital Editions<\/a>\u201d), the volume does not address the digital representation of manuscripts, but our <a href=\"\/catalog\"><i>Catalog of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b Texts<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"\/dictionary\"><i>Dictionary of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b<\/i><\/a> are mentioned in the <a href=\"\/a_bibliography.php?bib_id=Salomon_2014.2\">survey of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b manuscript studies<\/a> by Richard Salomon (pp. 1, 14\u201315). We are given more credit for completeness than currently due: The cited number of 125,000 (now 138,560) \u201centries\u201d refers to individual word tokens in the source corpus for our <i>Dictionary<\/i>. The number of proper <i>Dictionary<\/i> articles (most of them recently written) is currently 1,941, though happily growing at a steady pace. We anticipate that we will complete lexicographic coverage of published G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b manuscripts by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new volume on South Asian Buddhist manuscripts (From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research) has just been published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It brings together papers from the 2009 conference \u2018Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: The State of the Field\u2019 at Stanford University and provides the most comprehensive and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=115\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}