{"id":138,"date":"2012-12-20T20:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:43:06","slug":"from-birch-bark-to-digital-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"From Birch Bark to Digital Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Seventh Biennial International Conference on Buddhist Texts (\u201cCritical Edition, Transliteration and Translation\u201d) at the Somaiya Vidyavihar in Mumbai, I presented the paper \u201cBuddhist Manuscripts from Gandh\u0101ra: From Birch Bark to Digital Editions.\u201d After an overview of the Gandh\u0101ran manuscript tradition, I propose a new digital research environment for the study and publication of Gandh\u0101ran manuscripts (and other ancient documents) that is based on a close linking of visual evidence (images of manuscripts or inscriptions) and textual interpretation. A core feature of the proposed system is the storage of several alternative interpretations of a single manuscript or inscription in parallel, which I illustrated using the <a href=\"\/a_inscription.php?catid=CKI0257\">\u015aatruleka<\/a> reliquary inscription (as interpreted in Bailey 1982, Salomon 1984 and Mukherjee 1984) and the <a href=\"\/a_inscription.php?catid=CKI0266\">Kop\u015bakasa<\/a> reliquary (as interpreted in Fussman 1984, Falk 2010 and Baums 2012). In addition to documenting the published record of research, such parallel storage of multiple interpretations also allows concurrent active users of the system to record their ideas with individual credit and without danger of overwriting each other\u2019s interpretations. An extended version of my paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Seventh Biennial International Conference on Buddhist Texts (\u201cCritical Edition, Transliteration and Translation\u201d) at the Somaiya Vidyavihar in Mumbai, I presented the paper \u201cBuddhist Manuscripts from Gandh\u0101ra: From Birch Bark to Digital Editions.\u201d After an overview of the Gandh\u0101ran manuscript tradition, I propose a new digital research environment for the study and publication of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=138\">[&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\/138"}],"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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}