Dear All,
Thanks for the encouraging messages, those of you who reached out off-list!
A few clarifications:
- No, I won't be importing all GRETIL e-texts, but I'm happy to help migrate individual items that you'd like to keep working on; explained
here.
- I've now added readable transcripts to the Getting Started videos.
- @Sebastian: Yes, imperfect but useful OCR-based text is fine to start with! Metadata will try to be clear about current quality status. The exact quality standard is still subjective, but I'm open to more objective measures.
- Supplementary, not-Sanskrit-but-Sanskrit-related material — for example, a bit of bibliography or a translation — is also encouraged, and I'll find a way to present it. There are of course other, more established options for sharing serious scholarship without journal gatekeeping or making your own website: Humanities Commons, Internet Archive, Zenodo, GitHub — and things like Dropbox or Google Drive, of course. But I'll do my best to help if HANSEL somehow seems like the better fit.
Kind regards,
Tyler
Dear Tyler, dear all,
WIth a lot of gratitude for you to take this step and move a successor forward! I hope there will be plenty of contributions, and I'll certainly try to get some of the data we collected to you as well! Do you have min. quality standards, i.e. since OCR technology has come a long way in recent years, OCRs of IAST and clearly printed devanagari works are nowadays almost ready to use for rough referencing (with some caveats of course).
With many thanks,
Sebastian
Dear All,
I am pleased to share a new project designed to help fill the gap left by the discontinuation of GRETIL.
This is a new, open-source platform for Sanskrit e-texts, which I am building from scratch for my own enjoyment and as a service to the global Indological community. I intend to grow it slowly and steadily, and the plan is to eventually involve more members of the community in its maintenance, much like this listserv. For now, as sole creator and curator, I will be balancing it with other commitments, but I have designed the system with a fair bit of automation to support the work.
Please be in touch if you would like to contribute Sanskrit e-text materials to the site! I would also like to thank the colleagues who have already provided initial feedback, corrections, and materials.
Happy holidays and warm regards,
Tyler
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