Dear David, José, and Maximilian, Congratulations for the initiative of saving *endangered data*, as we may call it like this, when the funding is lacking.
I would like to mention that, for the GRETIL Search Interface which I prepared some time ago see [1], I have improved all the files in the 1_sanskr folder, in order to make them valid XML files firstly, and valid TEI files, secondly. A change log of the improvements can be found at [2]. Maybe we can merge the versions of these files, in order to have a single source of truth. Best regards, Claudius Teodorescu [1] https://claudius-teodorescu.gitlab.io/gretil-corpus-site/ [2] https://github.com/sanskrit-texts/gretil-corpus?tab=readme-ov-file#changes On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 17:01, Maximilian Mehner via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear list members, > > in light of last week’s discussion on the sustainability of digital > projects, I would like to share some important updates - or more precisely: > final developments - regarding GRETIL. > > The directors of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB) have > been approached by the German Oriental Society (DMG), Dominik Wujastyk and > myself on multiple occasions. We all emphasised the significance of GRETIL > as a service and appealed for its continued support. Regrettably, it has > become clear that the only form of institutional backing they are willing > to provide is for the long-term preservation of the data. > > Fortunately, this responsibility has been entrusted to a colleague with a > background in digital humanities, José Calvo Tello, who has a genuine > interest in enhancing the corpus. He even managed to employ a PhD student > of the Indology department, David Herting, for a couple of weeks. > > The announcement we are circulating reads as follows: > > Over the course of the last months we at the Göttingen State and > University Library (SUB) have been working on the migration of the the > Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (GRETIL) to a > new platform and we are now very happy to announce that GRETIL has found a > new home in the TextGrid repository: > > https://textgridrep.org/project/TGPR-2ba9cb1b-9602-202d-71ce-67e63a29de55 > > In its current state there are still some irregularities concerning the > rendering of certain elements, but these are being worked on. We would > nevertheless be very glad to kindly invite you to test out GRETIL in this > new environment. > > Please note that from a content perspective GRETIL is regarded as a closed > project by the SUB. This means that we, unfortunately, do not have > resources to add new texts or to make philological emendations to the > existing material. Any feedback should therefore be limited to technical > errors only. If, however, you are working on specific collections of Indic > material, the SUB will be able to assist you in integrating your work into > the TextGrid repository as a new project and thus integrating it in the > same repository that contains GRETIL. You can reach out to: > > José Calvo Tello, [email protected] > > for your technical feedback. > > The old GRETIL website is still online and will be available at least > until the end of the year. The new GRETIL in TextGrid also offers the old > cumulative ZIP file downloads in its previous form (now integrated into the > DARIAH-DE Repository).The GRETIL e-library will soon be available on the > edocs server of the Göttingen University ( > https://edocs.sub.uni-goettingen.de/). > > In the Pali collection, we were not able to migrate the digital facsimiles > of the Pali Text Society editions due to the special layout requirements of > these texts. Please do reach out to us, if you want to work with us on this > issue. > > We have presented an in depth explanation of our work and GRETIL in > TextGrid during the poster session of the DARIAH annual event in Göttingen, > on June 19, https://annualevent.dariah.eu/programme/ . The poster can be > seen at https://zenodo.org/records/15828259 > > We will also be presenting at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag DOT > 2025, Erlangen, Septembre 9, 11:30-12:00, in the session on long-term > archiving of DH projects. > > With this migration to TextGrid we are sincerely hoping to offer GRETIL a > sustainable and connected future, so it can continue to be useful for the > scholarly community. > > Best regards, > David Herting > José Calvo Tello > Maximilian Mehner > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Cu stimă, Claudius Teodorescu
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