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CDSL 2014 Year in Review

2014 was the founding year of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries on GitHub — the organisation was created on 14 January 2014 and the first repositories were set up to begin tracking the digitization and correction work.

The project moves to GitHub​

Prior to 2014, the CDSL dictionaries were maintained at the University of Cologne with changes tracked in local files. The creation of the sanskrit-lexicon organisation on GitHub began the process of making the project's development open and traceable. The COLOGNE repository — the web application serving the dictionaries — was among the first repositories created, along with individual research repositories for several dictionaries.

Dictionaries already online​

At the time of the GitHub launch, the CDSL site at the University of Cologne had already been serving digitized Sanskrit dictionaries for more than a decade. The corpus included Monier-Williams (MW), Böhtlingk–Roth (PW/PWG), Böhtlingk kürzere Fassung (PWK), Grassmann's Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda (GRA), Apte 1890 (AP90), Benfey (BEN), and many others. The GitHub infrastructure was being set up to support systematic improvement of the data and tooling.

Work in progress​

In 2014 the bulk of data correction and markup work was still conducted at Cologne and recorded in internal files rather than in GitHub commits. The GitHub repositories were being prepared as the canonical home for all future work.

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