SARIT updates

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Users of INDOLOGY's SARIT service will notice that the front page of the
service changed today.  Instead of being taken straight to "basic search",
the simple http://sarit.indology.info URL takes you to a SARIT home page.
> From there you can choose "basic search" if you wish.  Both these pages -
home page and basic search - were there before, it's just that we've
swapped them round, so that newcomers to SARIT get a bit more initial help
and explanation.  In the near future we'll be editing the home page to be
even more helpful :-)

Close observers will note that since the addition of the Southern *Mahā
bhārata*, the library has grown by the addition of Bhartṛhari's *Vākyapadīya
* and Bhoja's *Rājamārtta**ṇḍa* on the YS.  (Vācaspati's
*Tattvavaiśāradī*was added last
month.) The TEI header files give the origins and change-histories of these
e-editions.  The Bhojavṛtti is interesting in that it's SARIT's first
e-text that is a direct transcript of a manuscript.

The texts in SARIT are subject to a quiet but steady process of upgrade and
correction.  For example, we are aware that there's a problem with the
display of the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mbh in its Devanāgarī version.  We'll be
fixing this in the coming weeks, according to the time available.  All such
updates and changes to the e-texts are handled through the SARIT
Github site<https://github.com/paddymcall/SARIT>,
https://github.com/paddymcall/SARIT, where the master XML versions of the
e-texts reside, and are under version control.  Because the e-editions
are being
gradually improved, it is important that when you cite them, you include a date
and version.  Git makes it possible to retrieve any past version of the
e-texts, should that be required.  But you do need the date.

Anybody who would like to get involved with editing, correcting and
improving the SARIT library e-editions is welcome to join in.  A knowledge
of Sanskrit, XML, TEI and Git is required.

SARIT is always imperfect, and those of us working on SARIT are only
too acutely
aware of it.  But the above mechanisms offer a pathway for collaborating in
the process of improving and enriching the collection.

Anyone may take the SARIT files and use them in accordance with the CC license
that governs them.  That means, you can do most things that you can imagine,
but you must give attribution to the copyright-holders and sources of the
texts, you can't do anything for commercial profit, and any derived version
of the files that you may produce must be covered by the same CC
license(the freedom propagates).  The full details are in the TEI
headersof each file.

As always, much gratitude is due to Patrick Mc
Allister<http://ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Ma/MA_mcallister.html>for his hard
work and support in maintaining the INDOLOGY and SARIT
websites, and working on the e-editions.

Best,
Dominik



--
Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies<http://stb.univie.ac.at>
,
University of Vienna,
Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria
and
Adjunct Professor,
Division of Health and Humanities,
St. John's Research Institute, <http://www.sjri.res.in/> Bangalore, India.
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