Jonathan Silk brought up an important point about on-line manuscripts when he showed how spelling affects whether an online manuscript is found or not. Of course his example "Bauddha Gamartha Samgraha" showed how a title prevented finding a manuscript. But those of us who work in putting manuscripts on-line do so, not just so they'll be found by members of lists we make announcements to, but hopefully that they may be found many years in the future, so to me the question is how do we title on-line manuscripts and what metadata do we associate with them so they will be found in searchs (perhaps decades in the future)..
For example picking a manuscript title at random aṃśumatkāśyapāgama .
Should the title be the exact title in IAST i.e. aṃśumatkāśyapāgama.txt
Should the title be the exact title but without diacriticals i.e. amsumatkasyapagama.txt
Does header data within the text file and written at its beginning such as exact title or alternate title affect whether it is found in searchs?
Should the file have metadata? I.e. should the text file have an html or xml wrapper with metadata of its title in HK, Velthuis, devanagari? And in this case its alternate title aṃśumadāgama .?
Are there other ways that will help the etext to be found even if the search itself is mispelled?
Note: I'm asking these questions not in the context of "best manuscript transcription practices" but just in what will help an etext be found in google searchs. Does Google even say anything about how to maximize this?
Thanks,
Harry Spier
Ron is not kidding. I searched for "Buddhist," nothing, then "bauddha" and got --I'm not making this up:
Bauddha Gamartha Samgraha.
bauddhāgama... okaaay
I appreciate everyone’s input on manuscript collections.
Perhaps I overlooked it’s notice by others, but this rather idiosyncratic collection came to my attention some time ago: http://indianmanuscripts.com/
It bills itself as the largest collection of Indian manuscripts and antique books. There are some valuable items, but the romanization is via the North Indian/Hindi pronunciation one sometimes finds in Archive.org as well. Consequently, items are a bit challenging to spot from time to time.
Best wishes,
Ron
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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
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Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 1:19 PM
To: Timothy Cahill <tccahill@loyno.edu>
Cc: "Indology (indology@list.indology.info)" <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org
Thanks for this Tim. Links to the resources you mention are already there in the listing at http: //indology. info/external-resources, afaik. The way information is presented is far from clear: I'm trying to get an upgrade to the Wordpress
Thanks for this Tim. Links to the resources you mention are already there in the listing at http://indology.info/external-resources<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/indology.info/external-resources__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSllw06S9$>, afaik. The way information is presented is far from clear: I'm trying to get an upgrade to the Wordpress plugin, in the hope of improving presentation.
About the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, some of their MSS could be found at archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$> by searching in Devanagari, but I think they have been taken down.
Best,
Dominik
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 17:37, Timothy Cahill <tccahill@loyno.edu<mailto:tccahill@loyno.edu>> wrote:
Greetings,
The Lalcand Research Library (originally in Lāhore) of D.A.V. College, Chandigarh has a large collection, some of which was previously available on archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>. The manuscripts that I downloaded a few years back came with a full roman transcription as well as translations. Current web site: https://www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSpaa1g5t$>
A MS from the Asiatic Society of Mumbai was also available on archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$> some years back, but it too has disappeared from there and (likely) been integrated into their new site at:
https://www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSvyP8Ipm$>
This site requires registration and the payment of a fee as an annual subscription.
One note about the Penn collection: it is integrated into the worldcat site, so a search for a book will also bring up notices of the Penn collection, plus links that bring you directly to the digitized images.
Best wishes,
Tim Cahill
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 3:25 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
Deepest thanks to everyone who has sent me further links for the list of "Online Libraries of Scanned Manuscripts" at INDOLOGY.info. I'm using a cheap-and-cheerful plugin for Wordpress that doesn't allow manual rearrangement of the list items. So it's a bit of a grab-bag.
Best,
Dominik
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 13:23, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com<mailto:wujastyk@gmail.com>> wrote:
already there, via Colenda. What is the relationship between UPenn's Colenda and OPenn?
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 08:50, Eric Moses Gurevitch via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
In addition to the already-mentioned repositories, Penn Libraries has digitized almost 3000 South Asian manuscripts: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/indic_contents.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/openn.library.upenn.edu/html/indic_contents.html__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSmm83kw7$>
Take care,
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 9:13 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
There's also a nice collection of Sanskrit mss. from Cambridge U. :
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sanskrit/1<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sanskrit/1__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CShcl01D3$>
The Gallica database of the Bibliotheque nationale de France also includes scans of many Skt. and other Indic mss., but I haven't found an easy way to globally search Skt. alone. Here's the general site:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSoB8mRef$>
And, if anyone cares to look up the details and post them, the Endangered Archives programme of the British Library (https://eap.bl.uk/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/eap.bl.uk/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSl4EoJt9$>) has scanned quite a lot of Pali and probably some Sanskrit as well (not to mention Tibetan, Mongolian, etc.).
The Buddhist Digital Archives (https://library.bdrc.io/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/library.bdrc.io/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSnNHHHR3$>), though specializing in Tibetan, has recently branched out to include Pali, Sanskrit, and SE Asian languages, though I am not yet clear about what part of these additions are redirects to other databases.
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On Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at 3:48 PM, Giovanni Ciotti via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
Dear all,
I've recently become aware of this one (registration required): https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publication-category/manuscripts<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publication-category/manuscripts__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSjduIswz$>
All best,
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
Admittedly NOT on archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>, however, the Jain elibrary
https://jainelibrary.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/jainelibrary.org/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSjDvUeyZ$>
(free registration required for full access)
has scanned and uploaded around 800 manuscripts (seemingly exclusively Jain texts) (findable in the category on the left of the site) as well as the 16,899 ‘books’ on the site and 6,000+ ‘articles’
On 25 Jul 2023, at 20:25, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
There is also
Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan, Surat, Pandit Shivadatta Shukla collection
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Chunilal+Gandhi+Vidyabhavan+Surat%22<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/archive.org/search?query=creator*3A*22Chunilal*Gandhi*Vidyabhavan*Surat*22__;JSUrKysl!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSvg4hoGj$>
Le 24 juil. 2023 à 22:38, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> a écrit :
Dear list members,
Has anyone compiled a list of manuscript collections on archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSvkhyxNi$>. I'm of course aware of egangotri, but I would appreciate it if members could give me references to other collections of original manuscripts.
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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