History
The project keeps its own dated record in the csl-newsletter repository — "a daywise log of important activities… written with a view to note down important changes… so that an academic paper may be published later." It runs monthly from September 2021 and is the authoritative source for recent history; the timeline below summarizes its high points together with the front page and repository metadata.
Timeline
| When | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Mid-2000s | Malcolm Hyman and Peter Scharf envision an API over the dictionary digitizations. |
| 2010–2013 | The DFG-NEH Project funds digitization of many of the works (the *-marked dictionaries on the front page). |
| 2013–2014 | The current per-dictionary web display applications are generated (the scan "years" recorded for each dictionary are 2013 or 2014). |
| ~2015 onward | Jim Funderburk implements the present apidev API in PHP. |
| 2018 | The "Install web applications" notes (readme_cologne.org) document the Cologne web-app generation. |
| Sep 2021 | The newsletter log begins; csl-devanagari is created to offer output closer to the printed text; the front page lists 38 dictionaries. |
| Dec 2023 | Abhidhānacintāmaṇi of Hemacandra (ABCH) is added; CDSL version 2.5.0. |
| Now | Version 2.10.0; 42 fully digitized dictionaries (plus the PD sample), with more in preparation — the other Abhidhāna texts, Amarakośa, and Sanskrit–Russian (see the catalog). Source lives in the v02 layout of csl-orig. |
For the detailed, dated record — including the version bumps between 2.5.0 and the current release — see the newsletters (September 2021 onward).