CDSL 2016 Year in Review

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

2016 brought visible improvements to the CDSL web interface and the first tracked data work in the Monier-Williams repository, as the project's GitHub presence began to reflect real editorial activity.

Web interface improvements

The COLOGNE repository received commits in 2016 fixing display bugs and improving the user interface. These early patches addressed issues that had accumulated in the long-running Cologne web application and began establishing the practice of tracking changes in version control.

Monier-Williams data work begins

The MWS (Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English) repository received its first commits in 2016, including the initial mwauthorities file — a structured bibliography of the abbreviations and literary sources used in MW. This was an important step toward making MW's complex system of references machine-readable and ultimately linkable. A license file was also added, establishing the project's commitment to open data.

GitHub infrastructure matures

By 2016 the core repositories — COLOGNE, MWS, GRA, AP90, and the dictionary-specific research repos — were in place and beginning to receive regular commits. The groundwork for the correction workflow (csl-orig and csl-corrections) was being laid, with the full workflow becoming active over the following years.

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Dr. Mārcis Gasūns