Dear List members<div>A warm thanks to Dr. Ruppel, Prof. Olivelle, Dr Birch and others for their responses and further questions.</div><div><br></div><div>To clarify one question: by digital edition I mean not a digital text of the sort available on GRETIL for example, but something more, like this:</div><div><a href="https://editions.byzantini.st/ChronicleME/#/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">https://editions.byzantini.st/ChronicleME/#/home</a></div><div><br></div><div>As you will see above, the digital edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa by Dr Tara Andrews and her team, is an interactive critical edition, including graphs, maps, the transcriptions of all the manuscripts used available for view and much more that you wouldn&#39;t, or perhaps are unable to, include in a regular printed critical edition. Also one could potentially show a text as multiple historically protean texts rather than the single archetype we reconstruct in traditional philology.  I found this exciting and was hoping to develop something like it but with many more layers of content, something dense and rich. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope that explains a bit more what I was after. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div>Bihani <br><br>On Saturday, January 15, 2022, Bihani Sarkar &lt;<a href="mailto:bihanisarkar@googlemail.com">bihanisarkar@googlemail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear List Members,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A very happy New Year. I hope this finds you well. <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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. <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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 <a href="mailto:bihani.sarkar@orinst.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">bihani.sarkar@orinst.ox.ac.uk</a> <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you<span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Yours sincerely,<br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Bihani Sarkar MA (English, First Class Honours), MPhil, D.Phil (Sanskrit), (Oxon.)</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Faculty of the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Balliol College, University of Oxford. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Associate Research Fellow, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heroic-shktism-9780197266106?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://global.oup.com/<wbr>academic/product/heroic-<wbr>shktism-9780197266106?cc=gb&amp;<wbr>lang=en&amp;</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: the concept of suffering and pathos in Medieval India</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/classical-sanskrit-tragedy-9781788311113/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/<wbr>classical-sanskrit-tragedy-<wbr>9781788311113/</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Alokā: Online Lessons in Ancient Indian Texts and Traditions:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.bihanisarkar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.bihanisarkar.com/</span></a></span></span></div><div><p aria-hidden="true"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p></div></div>
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