[INDOLOGY] Final Developments Concerning GRETIL

[Claudius Teodorescu]

Dear David, José, and Maximilian,

Congratulations for the initiative of saving *endangered data*, as we may
call it like this, when the funding is lacking.

I would like to mention that, for the GRETIL Search Interface which I
prepared some time ago see [1], I have improved all the files in
the 1_sanskr folder, in order to make them valid XML files firstly, and
valid TEI files, secondly. A change log of the improvements can be found at
[2].

Maybe we can merge the versions of these files, in order to have a single
source of truth.

Best regards,
Claudius Teodorescu

[1] https://claudius-teodorescu.gitlab.io/gretil-corpus-site/
[2]
https://github.com/sanskrit-texts/gretil-corpus?tab=readme-ov-file#changes

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 17:01, Maximilian Mehner via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> in light of last week’s discussion on the sustainability of digital
> projects, I would like to share some important updates - or more precisely:
> final developments - regarding GRETIL.
>
> The directors of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB) have
> been approached by the German Oriental Society (DMG), Dominik Wujastyk and
> myself on multiple occasions. We all emphasised the significance of GRETIL
> as a service and appealed for its continued support. Regrettably, it has
> become clear that the only form of institutional backing they are willing
> to provide is for the long-term preservation of the data.
>
> Fortunately, this responsibility has been entrusted to a colleague with a
> background in digital humanities, José Calvo Tello, who has a genuine
> interest in enhancing the corpus. He even managed to employ a PhD student
> of the Indology department, David Herting, for a couple of weeks.
>
> The announcement we are circulating reads as follows:
>
> Over the course of the last months we at the Göttingen State and
> University Library (SUB) have been working on the migration of the the
> Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (GRETIL) to a
> new platform and we are now very happy to announce that GRETIL has found a
> new home in the TextGrid repository:
>
> https://textgridrep.org/project/TGPR-2ba9cb1b-9602-202d-71ce-67e63a29de55
>
> In its current state there are still some irregularities concerning the
> rendering of certain elements, but these are being worked on. We would
> nevertheless be very glad to kindly invite you to test out GRETIL in this
> new environment.
>
> Please note that from a content perspective GRETIL is regarded as a closed
> project by the SUB. This means that we, unfortunately, do not have
> resources to add new texts or to make philological emendations to the
> existing material. Any feedback should therefore be limited to technical
> errors only. If, however, you are working on specific collections of Indic
> material, the SUB will be able to assist you in integrating your work into
> the TextGrid repository as a new project and thus integrating it in the
> same repository that contains GRETIL. You can reach out to:
>
> José Calvo Tello, calvotello at sub.uni-goettingen.de
>
> for your technical feedback.
>
> The old GRETIL website is still online and will be available at least
> until the end of the year. The new GRETIL in TextGrid also offers the old
> cumulative ZIP file downloads in its previous form (now integrated into the
> DARIAH-DE Repository).The GRETIL e-library will soon be available on the
> edocs server of the Göttingen University (
> https://edocs.sub.uni-goettingen.de/).
>
> In the Pali collection, we were not able to migrate the digital facsimiles
> of the Pali Text Society editions due to the special layout requirements of
> these texts. Please do reach out to us, if you want to work with us on this
> issue.
>
> We have presented an in depth explanation of our work and GRETIL in
> TextGrid during the poster session of the DARIAH annual event in Göttingen,
> on June 19, https://annualevent.dariah.eu/programme/ . The poster can be
> seen at https://zenodo.org/records/15828259
>
> We will also be presenting at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag DOT
> 2025, Erlangen, Septembre 9, 11:30-12:00, in the session on long-term
> archiving of DH projects.
>
>  With this migration to TextGrid we are sincerely hoping to offer GRETIL a
> sustainable and connected future, so it can continue to be useful for the
> scholarly community.
>
> Best regards,
> David Herting
> José Calvo Tello
> Maximilian Mehner
>
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Cu stimă,
Claudius Teodorescu
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