[Histling-l] Launch of "VedaWeb" - a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic research on Old Indic texts

[Uta Reinöhl]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of VedaWeb - a web-based,
open-access platform that facilitates linguistic research on Old Indic
texts, funded by the German Research Foundation.

https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/

The Rigveda is made available in a digitally accessible as well as
morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for
lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. It is linked to the
dictionaries available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries via the
C-SALT APIs for Sanskrit Dictionaries. The morphological annotation of
the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universität Zürich (UZH) and made
available for the project, where information was added and consistency
checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform
application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub
repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass
further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to
add data to the platform.

VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT),
a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and developed
at the University of Cologne. Take a look!