Dear colleagues,
I am very happy to share the first release version of the DHARMA project’s Encoding Guide for Critical Editions.
https://hal.science/hal-04085137
Abstract — The DHARMA Encoding Guide for Critical Editions is a set of guidelines for creating critical editions of premodern South and Southeast Asian texts written in Sanskrit and/or in vernacular languages heavily impacted by the Sanskrit tradition. Specifically, this Encoding Guide concerns digital editions in XML format compliant with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard. These guidelines have been developed in the context of the ERC-funded project DHARMA, but it is hoped that they will help to establish new standards in South and Southeast Asian philology also beyond the DHARMA project.
It would really be wonderful if we could get feedback from this forum, and equally wonderful if any of you could be found willing to set up any new text edition projects in compliance with our encoding model, which — I emphasize — could be modified in order to address needs of the community that we haven’t thought of so far or that we have dealt with insatisfactorily.
So far, we have been able to test our model only on texts transmitted in Java and Bali and most examples come from such editing projects. I am hopeful that some Sanskritists can be found willing to join the bandwagon.
Best wishes,
Arlo
