News

2020

Leiden, March 26, 2020

The Open Philology team is meeting virtually during this horrible time of pandemic, continuing our work toward alignment of the Chinese and Tibetan texts of the Mahāratnakūṭa collection. The team is now working to "score" the accuracy of alignments, in order to improve the algorithm's efforts to automatically align, our ultimate goal.
We wish only health to everyone!

2019

Paris, July 7-13, 2019

The 15th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies - IATS2019

Professor Silk, Gregory Forgues and Christopher Handy gave their presentations on topics related to the project.

Japan, May 2019

Professor Silk lectures in Tokyo and Kyoto.

Professor Silk was in Japan in May and presented lectures about the project at Waseda University in Tokyo and Otani University in Kyoto. In July, he spoke about the project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Further, he met with collaborators in Tokyo, explored future collaboration with colleagues in Kyoto, and held meetings with future partners in Paris - IATS 2019.

Brussels, May 8-10, 2019

Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2019 Annual Conference - DATeCH2019

Christopher Handy presents the DATeCH poster at the poster session on May 9.

Tel Aviv, March 26, 2019

Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University - Departmental Colloquium 'Editing without an Ur-text: Buddhist Sūtras, Rabbinic Text Criticism, and the Open Philology Digital Humanities Project'

Prof. Jonathan Silk visits Tel Aviv University.

Denver, March 23, 2019

Association for Asian Studies 2019 Annual Conference - AAS2019

Christopher Handy talks about the project.

2018

Taipei, December 19, 2018

9th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities - DADH2018

Christopher Handy is giving a presentation on Tibetan-Chinese-Sanskrit text alignment using intelligent agents and genetic algorithms.

All Events Involving Project Members

21.01.2020	Guest Lecture (Heidelberg)	Rafal Felbur	-
11.11.2019	The <Linked Open Data> Workshop for <Buddhist> and <Tibetan> Studies (New York)	Jonathan Silk, Gregory Forgues	-
7.07 - 13.07.2019	The 15th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (Paris)	Jonathan Silk, Gregory Forgues, Christopher Handy	Forgues
May 2019	Guest Lectures (Tokyo and Kyoto)	Jonathan Silk	-
8.05 - 10.05.2019	Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2019 Annual Conference (Brussels)	Christopher Handy	-
26.03.2019	Departmental Colloquium (Tel Aviv)	Jonathan Silk	-
21.03 - 24.03.2019	Association for Asian Studies 2019 Annual Conference (Denver)	Christopher Handy	-
18.12 - 21.12.2018	9th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (Taipei)	Christopher Handy	-
12.09 - 14.09.2018	Open Philology - rKTs meeting (Leiden)		-
27.04 - 27.04.2018	Digital Humanities Asia 2018 Summit (Stanford)	Christopher Handy	-
19.01 - 23.01.2018	Open Philology - Chris Blackwell, Furman University (Leiden)	Jonathan Silk, Christopher Handy, Jiang Yixiu	-