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CDSL 2016 Year in Review

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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