{"id":245,"date":"2013-11-20T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:42:24","slug":"collaborative-research-tools-for-gandhari-and-sanskrit-buddhist-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Research Tools for G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b and Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the international symposium \u201cHumanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies\u201d at the University of Tokyo last week, I presented the paper \u201cCollaborative Research Tools for G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b and Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts.\u201d After an overview of the field of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b manuscript and epigraphic studies and the particular challenges of its source material, I describe the resources and software solutions that we provide on Gandhari.org. In addition to our <a href=\"\/dictionary\"><i>Dictionary<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"\/bibliography\"><i>Bibliography<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"\/catalog\"><i>Catalog<\/i><\/a>, over the last fifteen years we assembled a comprehensive corpus of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b source texts (2,441 manuscripts, inscriptions and coins) and linked our reference works and their source corpus by a custom software system. At this juncture, the standardization of tools and data formats has assumed special importance in order to ensure the long\u2010term usefulness of our content and an improved interchange with other projects engaged in the study of Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist literature. I describe how we plan to address these challenges and introduce a new software development effort (supported by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, University of Washington, University of Lausanne and Praka\u015b Foundation) implementing our designs and enhancing the collaborative research tools on Gandhari.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the international symposium \u201cHumanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies\u201d at the University of Tokyo last week, I presented the paper \u201cCollaborative Research Tools for G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b and Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts.\u201d After an overview of the field of G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b manuscript and epigraphic studies and the particular challenges of its source <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=245\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}