SARIT: Enriching Digital Text Collections in Indology

SARIT：丰富印度学数字文本收藏

• 批准号: 236347141
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Birgit Kellner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/236347141?language=en
• 关键词: SARIT; Enriching; Digital; Text; Collections

Sanskrit texts make up one of the richest cultural and intellectual archives of the premodern world, linked with deep traditions of sophisticated and systematic reflection on basic questions of the humanities. The SARIT project – Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts –, jointly proposed by partners in Columbia and Heidelberg, will develop and disseminate standards for Sanskrit texts, based on the widely-adopted Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). High-quality digital editions of key texts will be produced in the three areas of Buddhist philosophy (especially epistemology and logic), Vedic hermeneutics, and literary theory, and made available for free download. With the further integration of two existing prosopographical and bibliographical databases, and with the addition of new features for reading, searching, annotating and analyzing these texts, SARIT will develop into an entirely new and collaborative platform for Indological research, standards-driven and extensible, tying in with ongoing development work at the Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA), a digital humanities division. SARIT’s structured and standards-compliant digital corpus will form a solid basis for the future development of advanced tools for textual analysis, which are sorely needed given the sheer magnitude of Sanskrit literature, and the complexity of intertextual relations and forms of textual transmission that are characteristic for it.

梵语文本构成了前现代世界最丰富的文化和知识档案之一，与对人文学科基本问题进行复杂和系统思考的深厚传统联系在一起。由哥伦比亚和海德堡的合作伙伴联合提出的SARIT项目----印度文文本的搜索和检索----将在广泛采用的文本编码倡议的基础上制定和传播梵语文本的标准。将在佛教哲学（特别是认识论和逻辑学）、吠陀诠释学和文学理论三个领域制作高质量的关键文本数字版，并提供免费下载。随着现有的两个人类学和书目数据库的进一步整合，以及阅读，搜索，注释和分析这些文本的新功能的增加，SARIT将发展成为一个全新的印度学研究合作平台，标准驱动和可扩展，与海德堡研究架构（HRA）正在进行的开发工作相结合，数字人文部门。SARIT的结构化和符合标准的数字语料库将为文本分析的先进工具的未来发展奠定坚实的基础，考虑到梵语文学的庞大规模，以及互文关系的复杂性和文本传播的形式，这是非常需要的。