IATS XIII
Ulaanbaatar
21-27 July 2013
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МҮДС, Монголын Үндэсний дээд сургууль
Mongolian National University
Монгол улсын Шинжлэх Ухааны Академи
Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the
Tibetan Information Technology Panel
E. Gene Smith Memorial Session
Chairs: Paul G. Hackett
(Columbia University)
Lauran Hartley
(Columbia University)
Susan Meinheit
(U.S. Library of Congress)
Tashi Tsering
(China Tibetology Research Centre)
PANEL DESCRIPTION
This panel was the fifth in an ongoing series of panels on Tibetan Information Technology (begun in Leiden with IATS-IX). The panel was intended as a forum for the presentation and discussion of applied technologies in the field of Tibetan studies. Broadly defined, this panel covers a variety of topics from technical development issues -- such as data encoding and Tibetan-specific needs in systems' designs -- to the results of research in Tibetan studies utilizing information technologies.
Following the untimely passing of E. Gene Smith, it was decided to dedicate this conference's IT Panel to his memory. In his last years, Gene was fascinated by what had become possible thanks to new technologies, most importantly the capturing of unknown collections. He initiated and inspired innumerable projects across the world, and it is precisely with this in mind that we have decided to dedicate his memorial session to this particular aspect of his legacy. The memorial session was divided into a series of thematically grouped papers, indicated by the subheadings below.
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TALKS and PAPERS in Order of Presentation
Tributes
Leonard van der Kuijp
Harvard University
“A Tribute to Gene Smith”
Peter Verhagen (read by David Templeman)
LIAS, Leiden University, The Netherlands
“Encyclopedic Knowledge in Tibet’s Traditions: Gene Smith & Si-tu Paṇ-chen”
Presentation of Tibetan Digitization Projects
Anna Tsendina
Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
“Collection of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs in the museum of Ts. Damdinsuren in Ulan Bator”Abstract, slides, and paper -- forthcoming.Burkhard Quessel, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger, and Agnieska Helman-Wazny
British Library, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, and Cornell University
“Presentation of the Project Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: Tradition and Innovation in Tibetan Book Technology”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Karma Phuntsho (jointly with Dorji Gyeltshen)
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
“Digital documentation of temple archives in Bhutan”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Dorji Gyeltshen (jointly with Karma Phuntsho)
The Digital Documentation Project (Changangkha, Thimpu, Bhutan)
“The codification and compilation of the textual corpus associated with the Padma Gling pa tradition ”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Lelung Tulku
Lelung Dharma Trust
“Presentation of the work of the Geden Phacho Bhuche Preservation Centre”Abstract, slides, and paper -- forthcoming.Nikolay Tsyrempilov
Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
“Tibetan Collections of Buryatia: history, depositories, cataloging”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Jampa Samten
དབུས་བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་། ཝཱ་རཱ་ཎ་སི།
Central University of Tibetan Studies, Varanasi
“ཚལ་པ་ཁྲི་དཔོན་དྲུང་ཆེན་སྨོན་ལམ་རྡོ་རྗེས་རིག་རལ་གྱི་སྣར་ཐང་བསྟན་འགྱུར་ལས་ཐ་དད་པའི་དབུས་དཔེ་ལ་མ་ཕྱི་བྱས་ནས་བཞེངས་པའི་ཚལ་གུང་ཐང་བསྟན་འགྱུར་ལས་སྡེ་དགེ་བསྟན་འགྱུར་གྱི་དཔེ་རྒྱུན་མཆེད་པའི་ཚུལ་རགས་ཙམ་གླེང་བ།”
[“Examining the Distinguishing Features of the Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur at Tshal gung thang founded by Tshal pa drung chen Smon lam rdo rje and his heirs”]click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Gonchog Nyamochir
Bogd King Palace Museum
“Digitizing Buddhist Scriptures in Mongolia”Abstract, slides, and paper -- forthcoming.----------
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“Introduction to Paltsek Projects”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Humchen Chenagtsang
སྔགས་མང་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཁང་།
Ngak-mang Institute
“Introduction to Ngakmang Projects”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Camillo Formigatti
Cambridge University Library
“Digitizing and Cataloguing Sanskrit manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Paldor
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)
སྔར་དབུས་གཙང་ཁུལ་དུ་པར་ཁང་དང་ཤིང་པར་ཇི་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་གླེང་བ།
[“Preliminary Remarks Concerning the Printing Houses and Woodblocks of Early Centeral Tibet”]Abstract, slides, and paper -- forthcoming.Burkhard Quessel, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger, and Agnieska Helman-Wazny
British Library, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, and Cornell University
“Presentation of the Project Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: Codicological Features of Paper”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.
Presentation of Online Projects
Jeff Wallman
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)
“Preservation & Access of Tibetan Texts in a Global Setting”Paul G. Hackett
Columbia University
“Digital Resources for Research and Translation of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Charles Manson
Bodlein Library, Oxford University
“Development of a digital catalogue of the Bodleian Tibetan manuscripts: Bod Karchak@the Bod”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Kelsang Tahuwa
Digital Preservation Society (DPS), Tokyo
“DPS electronic editions of the Them spangs ma manuscript bka’ ‘gyur (with comparative catalogue) and the Peking bka’ ’gyur housed in the National Library of Mongolia”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Robert R. Chilton
Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture
“The Classical Tibetan Knowledge Archive and Multimedia Study Resource - a new research tool for the study of the oral commentarial and ritual arts traditions of Tibet”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Susan Meinheit
(U.S.) Library of Congress
“Digital projects at the Library of Congress”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Alexander Gardiner and Asha Kaufman
Rubin Foundation
“Collaborative On-line Database Publication: The Treasury of Lives”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Klu tshang rDo rje rin chen
Gansu Normal University for Nationalities (Hezuo, Gansu, China)
བླ་བྲང་དགོན་པའི་དཔེ་མཛོད་དུ་ཉར་བའི་ཡིག་ཚང་གློག་རྡུལ་ཡིག་མཛོད་དུ་ཕབ་དགོས་པའི་དོན་སྙིང་རགས་བཤད།
[“On the Necessity of Digitizing Documents Stored in the Library of Bla brang Monastery”]click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.
Presentation of Research and Resources
Kiyonori Nagasaki and Toru Tomabechi
一般財団法人人文情報学研究所
[“International Institute for Digital Humanities”]
“Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR), a Collaborative Project of the Khyentse Centre for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS) at the University of Hamburg and International Institute for Digital Humanities (DHII), Tokyo, and the SAT Daizokyo Text Database at the University of Tokyo”Pavel Grokhovskiy
Saint-Petersburg State University
“The Basic Corpus of the Classical Tibetan Language with a Russian Translation and a Lexical Database”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Lobsang Monlam
Monlam Tibetan Information Technology Research Center
“On the Framework of the Complete Monlam Tibetan Dictionary”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Edward Garrett
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
“Natural Language Processing (NLP) Pipelines for Tibetan Corpora”Tashi Tsering
China Center for Tibetology
“Introducing Two Tibetan Unicode Fonts and One Tibetan Input Method for Windows System”Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf
The School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
“Automatic Scribal Analysis of Tibetan Writings”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Michael Sheehy
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)
“Charting Par khang Culture: Towards an Analytics of Early Xylographic Literary Production in Tibet”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.Lauran Hartley
Columbia University
“Re-examining the Role of University Libraries in the Service of Tibetan Studies”click here for the paper abstract.
Slides and paper -- forthcoming.
Roundtable Discussions
Burkhard Quessel (moderator)
British Library
“Tibetan digital humanities: the wider perspective”click here for the discussion abstract.
Paper -- forthcoming.Jeff Wallman (moderator)
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)
“Technical issues and future directions”click here for the discussion abstract.
Paper -- forthcoming.
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