IIIF Annotation
The READ Workbench platform has been enhanced to support IIIF Annotation. An end-to-end workflow has been implemented to support art historians and philologists to collaborate on the analysis of inscribed items and is being piloted on Buddha statues, steles and reliquaries. Workbench 3.2 was released in April 2022. The 3.2 release includes support for annotation …
3D Integration
The Gāndhārī Relic Inscriptions project has piloted the integration of an inscription with a 3D model of the reliquary. Using the Theodotus Reliquary we have developed the methods to implement granular two-way synchronisation of a digital edition with the 3D model of that item. Researchers can manipulate the 3D model and see the transliteration of each character …
Aggregated Inscriptions
The Kuṣāṇa Donative Inscriptions project applies an analysis of donative formulae to compare epigraphs composed in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script with those in Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit (EHS) in the Brāhmī script during the Kuṣāṇa period, ca. 50-320 CE. The information contained in these epigraphs provides crucial information about the religious, political, social, and …
Cubed Inscriptions
The Gāndhārī Relic Inscriptions project has commenced publishing an initial tranche of draft inscriptions. These digital publications are notable in that they are the first examples of ‘cubed texts’. Our Text Cubing methodology encapsulates and exposes the scholarly history of a text. An initial reference edition (often from a catalogue published in the 1920’s) is …
ABC Radio Interview – May 2019
Dr. Mark Allon, Senior Lecturer of South Asian Buddhist Studies at University of Sydney and academic lead of the Gāndhārī Buddhist Texts project, was recently interviewed by ABC radio in a piece called “The ancient communities of Gandhara and their priceless Buddhist manuscripts.” For an up-to-date discussion of the historical and cultural implications of recent …