CDSL 2017 Year in Review

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

2017 was a period of steady development on the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries; while GitHub commits were sparse in the public repositories, the project's core data and tooling work continued at Cologne.

Ongoing data maintenance

The correction workflow for all dictionaries continued throughout 2017, with the core team at Cologne — led by Jim Funderburk and with contributions from Dhaval Patel and Andhrabharati — tracking and applying corrections to the source text files. This work formed the backbone of the project's data quality effort.

Infrastructure in preparation

The Python generation pipeline (csl-pywork) and the web display layer (csl-websanlexicon) were under active development. The move toward a more automated, script-driven workflow for generating XML from source text files was under way, with the aim of making the process reproducible and verifiable.

Community engagement

The Cologne website continued to receive substantial traffic from Sanskrit scholars, students, and digital humanities researchers worldwide. The dictionaries — particularly Monier-Williams and Böhtlingk-Roth — remained primary reference tools, and user-submitted corrections were being collected and reviewed for future incorporation.

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Dr. Mārcis Gasūns