[INDOLOGY] Updates to Vātāyana

[Tyler Neill]

Hi all,

Last month, my colleague Yuki Kyogoku presented at a workshop at Komazawa
University that discussed my research tool, Vātāyana
<https://www.vatayana.info/>. In preparation, I made several usability
improvements to the interface, including updates to the page layout, text
navigation, wording and explanatory notes, and a new tutorial video
<https://www.vatayana.info/tutorial>. I'm hoping to continue the
conversation about it with anyone who is interested, including extensions
to other data material.

The workshop participants had a number of interesting and useful
suggestions:
1. at the very least, more Yogācāra, Jaina, Madhyamaka, and Abhidharma
should be added;
2. some sort of text-reuse visualization could be nice, like this
specialized arc diagram from KITAB <https://kitab-project.org/data/viz> or
a Sankey diagram like this from BuddhaNexus
<https://buddhanexus.kc-tbts.uni-hamburg.de/visual/skt> (see screenshot
example);
3. metadata should be much easier to find;
etc. etc. I'm still taking notes, so please don't be shy to share more
thoughts of any kinds!

Kind regards,
Tyler
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