Dear Colleagues,
as the conclusion of the European Research Council funded project Śāstravid: A new research tool for the study of ancient Indian philosophical texts (see www.sastravid.net) we will be holding a two-day workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, on 4th and 5th September 2014. I include the programme below. There is no charge for attendance, but please email Jan Westerhoff at jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk if you are planning to come.

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Very best wishes

Jan Westerhoff




Workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities

Lady Margaret Hall
University of Oxford
4-5th September 2014

Programme

Thursday, 4 Sept

11.00 Tea
11.30-12.30 David Gold (Bridgeton Research): Śastravid: A new research tool for the study of Indian philosophical texts
13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers
14.00-15.00 Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University): The SARIT Project: Enriching Digital Text Collections in Indology
15.00-16.00 Andrew Ollett (Columbia University): Sarit-prasāraṇam: Developing SARIT beyond “Search and Retrieval”.
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 Nathan Hill (SOAS): Using an annotated corpus to facilitate the philological study of Tibetan texts

19.00 Dinner for speakers

Friday, 5 Sept
10.00-11.00 Jack Petranker/Ligeia Lugli (Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages): Thinking like a translator: the Buddhist Translators Workbench
11.00-11.30 Tea
11.30-12.30 Charles Muller (Tokyo University): Strategies for Project Development, Management, and Sustainability: The Example of the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries.
13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers
14.00-15.00 Paul Hackett (Columbia University/American Institute of Buddhist Studies): Extending Buddhist Canonical Research: New Data and New Approaches
15.00-16.00 Yigal Bronner (Hebrew University): A Prosopographical Database for Sanskrit Works in the Early Modern Era (and Beyond): The Appayya Dīkṣita Project, Phase 3
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo): Technical Possibilities of Digital Research Environments for Buddhist Studies
19.00 Dinner for speakers






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JC Westerhoff
Lady Margaret Hall
University of Oxford
Norham Gardens
Oxford OX2 6QA
United Kingdom

jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk
www.janwesterhoff.net