Všeobecné zrcadlo digitální Asie

Všeobecné zrcadlo digitální Asie

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Modern Transcription of Sanskrit
Modern Transcription of Sanskrit
Sanskrit has an inventory of thirteen vowels and thirty-four consonants: all of which can be unambiguously encoded into Devanāgarī (and various other South Asian scripts). As of recent history, Sanskrit is also often Romanized for simpler typesetting and wider scholarship. The dominant Romanization scheme is the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transcription (IAST), which evolved out of various earlier Romanization schemes (especially the standard developed in 1894 by the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists). Apart from Romanization schemes, Sanskrit does not have a true alphabet (Brāhmic scripts are abugidas).
HankerM·shashir.autodidactus.org·
Modern Transcription of Sanskrit
e-Diasporas
e-Diasporas
The e-Diasporas Atlas was incubated and developed in the framework of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme ICT Migrations program. Initiated and coordinated by Dana Diminescu, the project introduced digital methods into research on diasporas. This was made possible by the R&D innovations of Mathieu Jacomy and thanks to the technical coordination and training provided by Matthieu Renault. Some eighty researchers from diverse disciplines, laboratories and countries took part in the project. Several partners also contributed to its success: the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique through its Migrinter laboratory, the Institut Mines-Telecom, Linkfluence and the design studio Incandescence. The e-Diasporas Atlas received funding from the Agence National de la Recherche (STIC Content and Interaction), the École d'ingénieurs Telecom ParisTech and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris.
HankerM·e-diasporas.fr·
e-Diasporas
The Oriental Anthropologist: Sage Journals
The Oriental Anthropologist: Sage Journals
The Oriental Anthropologist is the official journal of the Oriental Institute of Cultural and Social Research (OICSR), Allahabad and publishes original unpublished research articles in all major fields of the ‘science of man’, viz., Social-Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Archaeological Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology; of course, with major emphasis on Social-Cultural and Biological aspects. However, ‘Anthropology’, being an interdisciplinary science that is concerned with all aspects of man of all time and space; articles relating to other Social Sciences are also considered for publication.
HankerM·journals.sagepub.com·
The Oriental Anthropologist: Sage Journals
The Buddhist Canons Research Database | AIBS
The Buddhist Canons Research Database | AIBS

The Buddhist Canons Research Database is a resource that offers complete bibliographic information (with internal crosslinks and links to external resources) for the roughly 5,000 texts contained in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and offers both general and targeted full text search access to those texts (approximately 15 million syllables).

BCRD is a joint project of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies (CCBS).

The Buddhist Canons Research Database was first developed as a private reference tool in 1994 as a loose combination of existing bibliographies and reference resources. In 1999, a custom search-and-retrieval search engine was built specifically for Tibetan language data, incorporating fuzzy-matching, stemming, and part-of-speech identification in support of corpus-based linguistic research for Tibetan.

In 2010, the basic bibliographic database was first deployed (as a public beta) as an online resource to enable the research community to document and track editions and translations of texts in the Buddhist canon — beginning with Tibetan canonical works collected in the Kangyur (bka 'gyur) and Tengyur (bstan 'gyur). Designed to facilitate research in canonical materials, related texts in the two halves of the canon and in the bibliography of secondary literature in world languages were cross-linked to allow for rapid accessing of information, including direct links to page images (hosted by TBRC) and e-text (hosted by ACIP) as well as documentation and links to parallel e-texts in Sanskrit and Chinese.

In 2011, in an attempt to support the larger goal of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) of promoting translation and research in Buddhist Studies worldwide, the interface to the database was redesigned for localization in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese). In addition, as one of the key strengths of the Tibetan literature lies in its thousand year commentarial tradition on the Buddhist canon, select authors and textual collections were added to the database as well, providing direct links to Tibetan-authored commentaries on canonical works. This remains an ongoing augmentation of the research database.

In 2013, the BCRD was formally launched with a redesigned interface, and full-text searching of the Kangyur and Tengyur — either as a whole or specifically within an individual text — was added, complete with page-by-page reference information and links to available e-text (again hosted by ACIP) and partial lexical information automatically provided through the use of techniques of Natural Language Processing. This, too, remains an ongoing development of the database. A detailed presentation of the latest features was given by Paul Hackett at the Thirteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS-XIII), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 2013, and at the "Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies" conference at the University of Tōkyō, November, 2013.

HankerM·databases.aibs.columbia.edu·
The Buddhist Canons Research Database | AIBS
OpenPecha
OpenPecha

OpenPecha is an etext and annotations store made available on GitHub and through a set of APIs.

The project’s primary aim is to facilitate the collection, proofreading, and enrichment of etexts by leveraging language technology and collaboration.

HankerM·openpecha.org·
OpenPecha
Tibetan Works
Tibetan Works
Here, we are providing an interface for one to navigate the corpus of Indo-Tibetan literature as digital etexts in the same way as one could expect to navigate the same texts in a Tibetan Library. We have not as yet provided the ability to search for a text.
HankerM·tibetan.works·
Tibetan Works
March 10th Memorial
March 10th Memorial
The Great Uprising of March 10th 1959 is regarded as the symbol of Tibet’s national resistance to Chinese military occupation. The M10 Memorial Project has been set up to provide factual and historic knowledge of those fateful days in Lhasa, and the names, images and information of those who participated in the fight against the Chinese occupation army and in the escape of the Dalai Lama. Created by Jamyang Norbu.
HankerM·m10memorial.org·
March 10th Memorial
New Monsoon
New Monsoon

Our primary aim is to  provide analysis, anecdote and new perspectives on Southeast Asia on issues ranging from politics and international relations, modern history, religion, culture, ecology, economy, language, and migration, all based on regional expertise and local sources (fieldwork, oral history, archives, local media, etc.).

The goal of the Southeast Asia Platform is also to establish a network of cooperation between experts across various regional and disciplinary fields of expertise. Countries of Mainland Southeast Asia like Myanmar or Vietnam, are often studied separately from the nations of Insular Southeast Asia such as Indonesia and the Philippines. We aim to bridge these conceptual and disciplinary boundaries (as well as the state-centered analysis) that prevent the sharing of research results and restrict opportunities for establishing broader theoretical debates.

The platform organizes thematic conferences and workshops in cooperation with scholars and experts from Czech research institutes and universities as well as academic institutions across Europe and other parts of the world. The Platform for Southeast Asian Studies will also be represented through regular scholarly seminars in Prague on themes relevant to Southeast Asia (the  Southeast Asia Lecture Series ), where invited experts present their most recent research findings from the region.

The platform plans to launch a regular blog on Southeast Asian affairs that will provide short topical analytical pieces and comments on the studied region, called New Monsoon, monsoon winds representing a key climatic phenomenon, which facilitated trade and cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean basin and southwestern Pacific.

From a long-term perspective, our goal is to contribute to the consolidation of the tradition of Southeast Asian studies at Czech academic institutions and serve as a   Prague Southeast Asian Platform that will collect and share top research findings on the region as well as provide a networking umbrella for all relevant activities. In line with that, we seek to enhance our joint capacity to network with other prestigious research institutions in Central Europe, the wider European context, and elsewhere across the globe.

Activities associated with the platform will build on the long-standing commitment to collaboration that already exists between the Oriental Institute researchers and academics from the Institute for International Relations in Prague, the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (the Institute of Asian Studies) of Charles University, together with Palacký University in Olomouc, the University of Vienna, the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University of Passau, etc.

HankerM·newmonsoon.eu·
New Monsoon
Tibet-Encyclopaedia
Tibet-Encyclopaedia
Tibet-Encyclopaedia herausgegeben von Dieter Schuh unter Mitarbeit von Christoph Cüppers, Wolfgang Bertsch, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Karl-Heinz Everding, Petra H. Maurer und Peter Schwieger.
HankerM·tibet-encyclopaedia.de·
Tibet-Encyclopaedia
Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC)
Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC)

As part of the ENP-China project, the Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (hereafter BDOC) aims to fill one of the main gaps in the studies of the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). Indeed, there is no specific biographical dictionary on the subject, whether in Chinese, Japanese or Western languages. Although it does not claim to be exhaustive — far from it! — the BDOC is designed to help understand the Japanese occupation state in China through the multiple biographical trajectories of its actors. The number of entries (currently 170) will increase in the years to come. Initially published in French, they will eventually be translated into English. In addition to internal references to the BDOC, each entry contains hyperlinks to other online dictionaries, such as the Biographical Dictionary of the International Labor Movement (known as “the Maitron”), the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (known as “the Boorman”, abbr. BDRC) and the Historical Dictionary of Japan. Each entry ends with a list of the sources on which it is based. The complete references are listed in the “Sources” tab. Photographs are taken from WYW and online sources which can be accessed with a click. For other sources, a caption is provided.

HankerM·bdoc.enpchina.eu·
Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC)
Religious Itinerancy | 遊方
Religious Itinerancy | 遊方

The website represents an interactive and searchable database encompassing travel narratives found within the biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns, spanning from the fifth to the seventeenth century CE.

There are several distinct ways to access the information stored within this repository:

"Events": This feature allows users to identify and peruse travel narratives using various filters, such as person, location, book title, dynasty, and motivations and outcomes of the journeys.

"Maps": This functionality enables users to locate every place visited by Buddhist monks and nuns, identifying their points of departure and arrival, as well as tracing their travel routes. This is facilitated through three different types of maps and corresponding filters, including person, location, book title, dynasty, and motivations and outcomes of the journeys.

"Search": This option enables users to read comprehensive biographies of itinerant monks online and conduct keyword searches.

HankerM·youfun.litphil.sinica.edu.tw·
Religious Itinerancy | 遊方
Doing Theory in Southeast Asia
Doing Theory in Southeast Asia

This open-access database aims to provide a platform for students, teachers, researchers, artists, and curators to exchange critical ideas about diverse Southeast Asian cultures.

The website features a table that lists intellectual, critical, and creative works about different Southeast Asian contexts categorized according to author, medium, and field. It includes annotations about academic journals in the region. Lastly, the section ‘Archipelagic Juxtapositions’ explores emergent topics, which uncover possible connections among seemingly unrelated objects, conditions, and processes pertaining to myth, geopolitics, art, music, and the environment.

‘Doing Theory in Southeast Asia’ was supported by a Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), together with a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Arts Direct Grant.

HankerM·seasia.crs.cuhk.edu.hk·
Doing Theory in Southeast Asia
CrossAsia Talks - CrossAsia
CrossAsia Talks - CrossAsia

In 2022, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin celebrates three important anniversaries: Christian Mentzel’s 400th birthday (first curator of our Sinica collection), the 100th anniversary of its founding, and 70 years of funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). To mark this occasion, we have launched a hybrid lecture series in June 2022: CrossAsia Talks. The lectures focus on objects from our collections in the broadest sense. Researchers and colleagues from Germany, Europe, Asia and the USA will talk about the earliest results of research on the first Chinese holdings in the Electoral Library, Southeast and Central Asian manuscripts, medical history texts and research results from cooperation projects between the East Asia Department and academia. They present innovative projects, techniques and ideas on how to work with our digitised collection and what future challenges look like.

We warmly welcome you to join the lectures online or offline in our library and look forward to seeing you there. Please find the recordings of past lectures as

HankerM·blog.crossasia.org·
CrossAsia Talks - CrossAsia