[INDOLOGY] Final Developments Concerning GRETIL

[Maximilian Mehner]

Dear Claudius,

it’s truly encouraging to see how much effort you’ve invested! However, as merging your versions with the ones on TextGrid would constitute a content update, this is exactly the sort of work that will not happen. Perhaps consider it to be different redactions of the same corpus. And as in both redactions at least the more recent changes are well documented, users should be in a good position to make an informed decision about which version best suits their needs.

Best regards,
Max

Am 25/07/22 11:43, schrieb 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