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Literary source links to scanned images #372

Open funderburkjim opened 3 years ago

funderburkjim commented 3 years ago

In [this comment], @Andhrabharati reminds us that one possibility for providing linkable targets from literary source references in the dictionaries is to link to pages of scanned images of the literary sources. For example, to Bombay or Calcutta or other editions of Ramayana.

This issue included so it will be re-examined.

One obstacle: a mapping from a particular reference to a particular page in a particular pdf, and determining the particular edition (pdf) . There are many (26800+) mentions of Ramayana in PWG. Can we find the mapping?

An alternative would be a digitization that corresponds to the references by a particular author.

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

One obstacle: ..., and determining the particular edition (pdf)

PWG mostly used Schlegel and Gorresio-

and both these are available as PDFs.

It's @gasyoun' work now, to find a suitable person to volunteer for the page marking against those citations!

An alternative would be a digitization that corresponds to the references by a particular author.

In many cases, we cannot have the digitised texts for those old works, and this PDF linking is the most suitable action for all of them.

funderburkjim commented 3 years ago

Translation of above (Google):

Without further details, the first two books refer to the SCHLEGEL edition (GILD. Bibl. 84), the last four that of GORRESIO (GILD. Bibl. 85).

Here is one example. In PWG, headword 'a', {#akAraRAt#} {%ohne Grund%} R. 1, 2, 32. Ramayana section 1 (बालकाण्ड), sarga 2, verse 32. Use SCHLEGEL first volume: https://archive.org/details/SchlegelRamayanaBalakanda/page/n95/mode/2up (This has internal page number 17). image The mapping format might be (for this page 17) 1.2.23-32:17 (page 17 has verses 23-32 of sarga 2 of kARqa 1 of Ramayana) This pdf would likely satisfy the बालकाण्ड references.

And here is one example from section 3.
Under headword agnicaya in PWG, reference <ls>R. 3, 9, 35. {ETC}</ls> On pdf page 79 of Gorressio vol. 3 we find the reference to agnicaya image

Based on this small sample, we can expect that PWG references to Ramayana can be resolved by links to displays of pdf versions derived from SCHLEGEL and GORRESSIO texts at archive.org.

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

Thank you @funderburkjim, for taking my point and going ahead so quickly.

I do believe that this has a good scope and will cover very many otherwise impossible linkings, for any citation; and easy to get them all "linkable" with very little effort.

@gasyoun, you can take my words that within another 2-3 years (if I continue here), your only work would be this; there are no shortage of linkable sources for Cologne lexicons.

Andhrabharati commented 2 years ago

One obstacle: a mapping from a particular reference to a particular page in a particular pdf, and determining the particular edition (pdf) . There are many (26800+) mentions of Ramayana in PWG. Can we find the mapping?

Pl. see my post reg. the Calc. ed. of Mahabharata- https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/COLOGNE/issues/371#issuecomment-971742611

Andhrabharati commented 2 years ago

Can we find the mapping?

@funderburkjim

Posted the Mahabharata (Calc. ed.) mapping file, at https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/COLOGNE/issues/371#issuecomment-1001237436

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