credit / acknowledgement / bibliography to Cologne Dictionaries

[drdhaval2785]

Reference - https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-json/issues/4#issuecomment-899267541

It is high time that we decide these long pending issues. Now there are users who use our data downstream.

1. Credit / acknowledgement if someone wants to use the dictionaries in some downstream application.
2. bibliographic reference if someone wants to refer to Cologne Sanskrit dictionaries in academic papers.

[drdhaval2785]

In text citation

(Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries)

bibliographic reference

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, version 2.0.571,
Cologne University, accessed on August 27, 2021,
https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de

Specifications are taken from https://student.unsw.edu.au/how-do-i-cite-electronic-sources and modified to display version number, and avoiding angular brackets, as they are not very HTML friendly.

[drdhaval2785]

Acknowledgement

This website / application uses data from Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, Cologne University, accessed on August 27 2021.

[drdhaval2785]

Does this seem OK to @funderburkjim ? Then we can integrate this in the homepage.

[gasyoun]

You forgot to add the license.

[funderburkjim]

Here is how the acknowledgement appears in https://ashtadhyayi.com/kosha/

The text in blue is a link to https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/.

It is true that each dictionary at cologne has a certain creative commons license, such as https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/2020/web/mwheader.xml

The ashtadhyayi.com/kosha web site uses several dictionaries, and it might be awkward to have a licensing link for each dictionary.

The link to Cologne site could be considered to imply adherence to the individual dictionary licenses.

Thus, I think the ashtadhyayi.com/kosha acknowledgement approach is satisfactory.

@thomasincambodia -- do you agree?

[maltenth]

@funderburkjim yes, completely agree with you.

[drdhaval2785]

@funderburkjim would it be more appropriate if the way of citation / acknowledgement is displayed / linked on Cologne frontpage? Everyone who intends to use data would know it from the homepage.

[funderburkjim]

Sorry, don't understand question. Can you illustrate with snips?

[drdhaval2785]

How to acknowledge ?

This website / application uses data from Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries 2021, Cologne University

Something like this can be put on https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de ?

[funderburkjim]

Go ahead and modify csl-homepage repository -- then I'll be able to see exactly what you are thinking of.

[funderburkjim]

To modify csl-homepage, you change

• index_xampp.py for the local xampp installation
  • redo_xampp.sh also copies to an expected location (xampp/htdocs/cologne/index.html)
• index_cologne.py for the Cologne server
  • I'll do the redo_cologne.sh script on Cologne server.

[funderburkjim]

Did my comment re csl-homepage make sense to you?

[Andhrabharati]

asking @drdhaval2785?

he was just proposing to add a subheading and a sentence under it.

so that it indicates how CDSL wishes usage of its content to be acknowledged.

[drdhaval2785]

Jim, your instructions make sense to me. Will update csl-homepage repository accordingly.

Nagabhushana ji, Jim off and on asks me to make certain minor modifications to code at my end. The purpose is to keep me aware about the processes involved, in case I need to attend to such requests in future. As I have not made any changes to the csl-homepage repository ever, this was a small homework assigned to me from Jim.

[gasyoun]

in case I need to attend to such requests in future

And the case will come, we all understand that.

Thus, I think the ashtadhyayi.com/kosha acknowledgement approach is satisfactory.

And no need to list the dictionaries actually used?

[drdhaval2785]

@funderburkjim The work was done as per instruction in commits https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-homepage/commit/f2a50ccbcbe6b994945909f7c15e7ccaf55841c7 and https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-homepage/commit/3cb87b65ec66f18734c94c4f4a56addce55a4a16 . You may update the same on Cologne server.