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CDSL 2025 Year in Review

2025 was a year of expanded reach: the Frisch Sanskrit Reader was added as a new dictionary, the PWG link-splitting programme resolved dozens of compound literary-source references, a large-scale XML transformation was undertaken, and search transliteration handling was improved for the first time in several years.

Frisch Sanskrit Reader added to CDSL​

The Frisch Sanskrit Reader (originally Oldřich Fryš, Санскритская хрестоматия, Moscow: ABV 2015, vol. 2) was integrated into the csl-pywork pipeline and given an initial CDSL version in 2025. This bilingual Sanskrit–Russian text had not previously been available in the standard CDSL infrastructure. The data lives in the FRI repository and extends the corpus beyond the classical dictionary genre.

The ongoing work of making abbreviated literary-source references in the Böhtlingk-Roth dictionaries (PWG and PW) clickable reached a major milestone in 2025. Issue #160 in the PWG repository tracked the splitting of compound references. In 2025, more than thirty compound-reference patterns were resolved, including RAGH. (Raghuvaṃśa), ŚAT. BR. (Śatapathabrāhmaṇa), YĀJÑ. (Yājñavalkya), KĀTY. ŚR. (Kātyāyana Śrautasūtra), and PAÑCAT. (Pañcatantra) in multiple edition variants. The Nirukta link target was also added across PWG, PW, PWKVN, SCH, and MW.

COLOGNE: large-scale XML transformation​

The COLOGNE repository undertook a systematic XSL-based transformation of markup across the corpus. A series of XSL stylesheets were developed to normalize tag structures across dictionary files, and literary-source abbreviations were expanded into full bibliography entries in a more automated way using updated book-name lists.

Search with transliteration variants​

A significant usability improvement landed in the COLOGNE search interface in 2025: the headword search now accepts multiple transliteration inputs and normalises them before matching. Literary-source references were made visually distinct (displayed in blue rather than grey) to improve readability.

Scott backlog corrections installed​

A substantial backlog of corrections contributed by Scott Ryden was installed in 2025, covering SHS (Shabda-Sagara) end-of-line hyphenation joining and AP (Apte 1957) entries, processed through the csl-corrections and csl-pywork pipelines.

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