Dear List Members,
A very happy New Year. I hope this finds you well.
I write to inquire if anyone on this list may know about the production of digital editions of Sanskrit texts. There has been some exciting work in digital humanities and
Biblical Studies, and I am eager to see if the latest advances can be used profitably for a research project I am developing.
Apart from designing such a digital edition, I am interested in learning about manuscript transcription tools using artificial intelligence such as Transkribus, digital collation tools, such as Collate-X, and digital tools for stemmatic analysis such as Stemmaweb.
If you have been involved, or know someone who is involved, in Indological research projects creating such editions, and are aware of all these issues, I would be extremely grateful for your help and advice (especially about costs involved and personnel). Please do contact me at bihani.sarkar@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Bihani Sarkar MA (English, First Class Honours), MPhil, D.Phil (Sanskrit), (Oxon.)
Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit.
Faculty of the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.
Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Associate Research Fellow, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
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