Digital humanities and Buddhism : an introduction / edited by Daniel Veidlinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veidlinger, Daniel, Editor.

Series:

Introductions to digital humanities - religion ; v. 1.

Introductions to Digital Humanities - Religion ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Research.

Buddhism.

Digital humanities.

digital humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and opportunities for further research. This volume explores DH and Buddhism in four sections: Theory and Method; Digital Conservation, Preservation and Archiving; Digital Analysis; Digital Resources. It covers themes such as language processing, digital libraries, online lexicography, and ethnographic methods. Erratum: Unfortunately there is a mistake in the print version in the last paragraph of page 14. READ is an open-source software system developed by a team consisting of Stefan Baums at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Andrew Glass in Seattle, Ian McCrabb at the University of Sydney and Stephen White in Venice (https://github.com/readsoftware/read).

Contents:

Introduction / Veidlinger, Daniel

Past, Present, and Future of Digital Buddhology / Budapesti, Ilona

Part One: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Computational Linguistics and the Buddhist Corpus / Veidlinger, Daniel

An Ethnographic Method for the Digital Humanistic Study of Buddhism / Grieve, Gregory Price

Part Two: Digital Conservation, Presentation and Archiving

Ontologizing Buddhist Digital Archives: Two Case Studies / Tang, Kuo-Ming / Hsieh, Shu-Kai

Digital Encoding, Preservation, Translation, and Research for Tibetan Buddhist Texts / Hackett, Paul G.

The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project: Problems and Possibilities / Shakya, Miroj

Digital Libraries of Lao and Northern Thai Manuscripts / Wharton, David

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary: A Brief History / Muller, A. Charles

Part Three: Digital Analysis of Buddhist Documents

Mapping Religious Practice in the Eminent Monks: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections / Jensen, Christopher

A Context-Free Method for the Computational Analysis of Buddhist Texts / Handy, Christopher

Digital Filiation Studies: Phylogenetic Analysis in the Study of Tibetan Buddhist Canonical Texts / Apple, James B.

Appendix: Selected Digital Humanities Resources

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783110518399

9783110519082

OCLC:

1105901456