[INDOLOGY] Searching archive.org: Canada/Sanskrit

[James Hartzell]

Hi Dominik

Just following up (finally) on this.  Do you have Carl Malamud's email?

Cheers
James

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:27 AM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I've been adding metadata for some years, now, in a slow and not very
> structured manner.
>
> What I do is use the "Reviews" section, and use a standard header
> "bibliographical information" and give a zero star rating (for no good
> reason).  Like this one <https://archive.org/details/susruta1931> or this
> one <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.327618/>.  Nowadays I
> have also taken to using the standard phrase "Worldcat permalink: "
> followed by the permalink URL from the corresponding Worldcat entry. Like this
> one <https://archive.org/details/hirthanniversary00hirt>.
>
> The Reviews section does get searched, when one does a metadata search.
>
> If you are going to start doing metadata, perhaps you should coordinate
> with Carl Malamud <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud>, who has
> an alert that pops up for him when I personally add metadata.
> (Incidentally, it is Carl to whom we owe the enormous benefit of having the
> Digital Library of India available within Archive.org.)
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Just picking up on Jonathan Silk's notion of crowdsourcing corrections
>>> to archive.org metadata:
>>>
>>> It would be great if there were a straightforward way to correct
>>> inaccuracies in the Titles and authors of items in archive.org.  That
>>> way, each one of us, when we're searching for an item, and eventually find
>>> it (often by going through all the items that come up from the search until
>>> we finally find the correct one), we could simply correct the errors at
>>> that time. This wouldn't take much extra time,
>>>
>>> I can't create such a fix myself, but will happily correct title and
>>> author errors going forward if someone can show the way.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:31 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Including, pleasingly, Ferdinand de Saussure's PhD on the genitive
>>>> absolute in Sanskrit:
>>>>
>>>>    - https://archive.org/details/delemploidugni00sausuoft
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 14:24, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just filling an idle moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Canadian libraries have scanned over 600,000 books into Archive.org.
>>>>> Canadian scanning is usually of exceptionally high quality.  Searching
>>>>> those for "Sanskrit" produces 563 hits.  Sorted by publication date, we get
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>>    -
>>>>>    https://archive.org/details/toronto?and%5B%5D=sanskrit&sin=&sort=date
>>>>>    --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk
>>>>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/dominik-wujastyk>
>>>>> ,
>>>>>
>>>>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>>>>> ,
>>>>>
>>>>> Department of History and Classics
>>>>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
>>>>> ,
>>>>> University of Alberta, Canada
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> South Asia at the U of A:
>>>>>
>>>>> sas.ualberta.ca
>>>>>
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>>> Center for Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, USA
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> James Hartzell, PhD (2x)
>> Donostia-San Sebatián, Spain
>> Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), The University of Trento, Italy
>> Center for Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, USA
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James Hartzell, PhD (2x)
Donostia-San Sebatián, Spain
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), The University of Trento, Italy
Center for Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, USA


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