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