For obituaries and recollections concerning Gene Smith, click here.
IATS Memorial Session 2—Among Digital Texts: Remembering Gene Smith
MONDAY 22 – TUESDAY 23 JULY
Session coordinator: Hildegard Diemberger
Gene Smith was such a polymath that not even a full conference could cover all the areas to which he contributed. In his last years he 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. Of course, this is not to say that other dimensions are less important, but the digital legacy is the area in which a sustained debate is perhaps most urgent in order to secure the survival of his vision.
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MONDAY 22 JULY
9:00–9:30
Two Tributes
A Tribute to Gene Smith
Leonard van der Kuijp
Encyclopedic Knowledge in Tibet’s Traditions: Gene Smith & Si-tu Paṇ-chen
Peter Verhagen
PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS
Chair: Karma Phuntsho
9.30 – 9.45
Collection of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs in the museum of Ts. Damdinsuren in Ulan Bator
Anna Tsendina
9.45-10:00
Presentation of the Project Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture
Burkhard Quessel, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger and Agnieska Helman-Wazny
10:00 – 10:15
Digital documentation of temple archives in Bhutan
Karma Phuntsho (jointly with Dorji Gyeltshen)
10:15 – 10:30
The codification and compilation of the textual corpus associated with the Padma Gling pa tradition
Dorji Gyeltshen (jointly with Dr Karma Phuntsho)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Presentation of the work of the Geden Phacho Bhuche Preservation Centre
Lelung Tulku
10:30 – 11:00
Tea and Coffee
11:00 – 11:15
Presentation Tibetan Collections of Buryatia: history, depositories, cataloging
Nikolay Tsyrempilov
11:15 – 11:30
ཚལ་པ་དྲུང་ཆེན་སྨོན་ལམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཡབ་སྲས་ཀྱིས་བཞེངས་པའི་ཚལ་གུང་ཐང་གི་བཀའ་བསྟན་གྱི་གལ་གནད་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དཔྱད་གཏམ།
[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]
Jampa Samten
11:30 – 11:45
Digitizing Buddhist Scriptures in Mongolia
Nyam Ochir
11:45 – 12:00
Introduction to Paltsek Projects
12:00 – 12:15
Introduction to Ngakmang Projects
12:15 – 12:30
Digitizing and Cataloguing Sanskrit manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library
Camillo Formigatti
12:30–12:45
སྔར་དབུས་གཙང་ཁུལ་དུ་པར་ཁང་དང་ཤིང་པར་ཇི་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་གླེང་བ།
Paldor (Baduo)
PANEL 33: Tibetan Information Technology
Chairs and panel conveners
Paul Hackett (Columbia University)
Lauran Hartley (Columbia University)
Susan Meinheit (Library of Congress)
Tashi Tsering (CTRC)
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DAY ONE
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2:00 – 2:20
Preservation & Access of Tibetan Texts in a Global Setting
Jeff Wallman
2:20 – 2:40
Digital Resources for Research and Translation of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon
Paul Hackett
2:40 – 3:00
Development of a digital catalogue of the Bodleian Tibetan manuscripts: Bod Karchak@the Bod
Charles Manson
3:00 – 3:20
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
Kelsang Tahuwa
3:20 – 3:40
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
Robert Chilton
3:40 – 4:00
Digital projects at the Library of Congress
Susan Meinheit
4:00 – 4:30
Tea and Coffee
4:30 – 4:50
Collaborative On-line Database Publication: The Treasury of Lives
Alexander Gardener and Asha Kaufman
4:50 – 5:10
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]
Klu tshang rDo rje rin chen
DAY TWO
9:00 – 9:20
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
Kiyonori Nagazaki and Toru Tomabechi
9:20 – 9:40
The Basic Corpus of the Classical Tibetan Language with a Russion Translation and a Lexical Database
Pavel Grokhovskiy
9:40 – 10:00
On the Framework of the Complete Monlam Tibetan Dictionary
Lobsang Monlam
10:00 – 10:20
NLP Pipelines for Tibetan Corpora
Edward Garrett
10:20 – 10:50
Tea and Coffee
10:50 – 11:10
Introducing Two Tibetan Unicode Fonts and One Tibetan Input Method for Windows System
Tashi Tsering
11:10 – 11:30
Automatic Scribal Analysis of Tibetan Writings
Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf
11:30 – 11:50
Charting Par khang Culture: Towards and Analytics of Early Xylographic Literary Production in Tibet
Michael Sheehy
11:50 – 12:10
Re-examining the Role of University Libraries in the Service of Tibetan Studies
Lauran Hartley
12:10 – 12:30
[Collective Q&A for all papers]
12:20 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
ROUNDTABLE I: Tibetan digital humanities: the wider perspective
Chair: Burkhard Quessel (British Library)
3:00 – 3:30
Tea and Coffee
3:30 – 4:30
ROUNDTABLE II: Technical issues and future directions
Chair: Jeff Wallman (TBRC)
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