Extending PWK bibliography

[funderburkjim]

Over the course of many issues devoted to matching the Bibliographic entries of PW, we have been adding what we've called new bibliographic abbreviations. These new abbreviations appear as abbreviations to references that occur in the text of PW, but have no corresponding entry in the printed bibliography; a few of them appear to be simple variant abbreviations for some already present bibliographic entry.

When the 'matching' phase ends (and the end is in sight), we will want to somehow merge the new bibliographic entries with the printed entries.

Thus, we will want to know what the new abbreviations 'stand for'.

For instance, in #50, @zaaf2 discovered that Daçak.(ed.Wilson) refers to DAC2AKUMA7RAK4ARITA, ed. WILSON (GILD. Bibl. 236). (from PWG)

I think @zaaf2 and @gasyoun can get started now in doing the same kind of filling in for the other new abbreviations.

The file pwbib_new.txt is where we have a list of these new abbreviations. There are currently 81 of the new abbreviations.

The most convenient format would be similar to that of pwbib0.txt

ABBRV == reference
for instance
DAC2AK.ed.WILSON == DAC2AKUMA7RAK4ARITA, ed. WILSON (GILD. Bibl. 236).  (from PWG)

; lines starting with semicolon are comments

[gasyoun]

As per https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/PWK/issues/61 and pwbib_abbrv_all there are 774 recognized sources and circa 72 000 quotes in PW(G). Where to look for number of quotes in PWK? @funderburkjim please advice. Adding footnotes to a Preface for a 1854 dictionary to be published in a month in Moscow.

[funderburkjim]

@gasyoun

number of quotes in PWK I would count the number of lines in abbrvlist.txt which I show as 78498,

or in properrefs.txt, which shows as 72070.

72 000 quotes in PW(G). This seems to be a misunderstanding. This work pertains to PWK only. We have not done similar work with PWG, unless I've just forgotten it.

[gasyoun]

I do love big numbers. But where comes the 6.5k difference, Jim? Any clue?

[funderburkjim]

78498 - 72070 = 6428.

6428 = Number of lines in purnumberabbrvlist.

These are literary references which only have a page reference (or sutra, etc.), but don't mention the particular work. Probably most would be inferrable from some previous part of the entry in which they occur. But, at any rate, that is an inference that must be made since the work is not explicitly mentioned.

[gasyoun]

78498

In that case it's a totally new reference, even if (as is the case) the same book. So it's 78 500.

[funderburkjim]

@gasyoun OK. 78500 is reasonable way to look at it.

[gasyoun]

Where to look for number of quotes in PWK?

I'm all mixed up. There is no list of PWK sources, right? We do not know the difference in number of sources, do we?

[funderburkjim]

There is no list of PWK sources, right?

I would say otherwise. Here's a review of what we have.

The list of abbreviations of PWK sources should be in file pwbib_abbrv_all.txt.

This list includes both those that are resolved and those that are not resolved.

The literary source abbreviations that do NOT appear in the PWK bibliography are in file pwbib_new.txt.

The literary sources that DO appear in the PWK bibliography are in several related places and forms

• pwbib_orig.txt contains the original digitization by Thomas of the PWK bibliography, in the cp1252 encoding.
• pwbib_utf8.txt contains the original digitization, but in UTF-8 encoding
• pwbib0.txt is viewed as the base form. It started life as a copy of pwbib_utf8.txt, but has been manually edited to have a regular form.
• pwbib1.txt is derived by program from pwbib0.txt. It is a 7-field, tab-delimited file, whose structure is described in this issue comment. It is probably the most useable version of the PWK bibliography that we currently have.
• There is also a pwbib_unused.txt file. I think this contains the few abbreviations that appear in the PWK bibliography, but that actually have no instances of usage in the PWK text (pw.txt).

Finally, as a step towards resolving the pwbib_new.txt literary references, there is a file bibnew_disp2_edit.txt. This essentially merges three sources:

• pwbib1.txt
• pwbib_new.txt
• MW literary sources

The hope was that by providing the context of (a) known PWK references (pwbib1.txt) and (b) known MW literary sources, many of the unresolved abbreviations of pwbib_new.txt could be resolved. As of this writing, very little attention has been placed on this resolution. THIS IS WHERE ATTENTION IS NEEDED, in my opinion.

One other source which potentially could help resolve pwbib_new literary source abbreviations is the work of Jachertz. This source also has NOT thus far been examined.

[drdhaval2785]

PWK and MW bibliography concordance seems a good project.

[gasyoun]

Jim, sorry for stealing so much time. Usually you (and some scholars before you) name PWG as PW, and PWK as PWK. What I need to know is how PWG changed over time and became PWK. How many new sources have been added in the 2nd dictionary.