Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
update for CONSALD list in preparation for
AAS meeting, March 2001

We have made great progress since last year.� I have broken this update into sections. The first section covers resources currently up on DSAL, the second is a list of resources that are being worked on and the third are issues and standards that we have �dealt� with in some fashion.

1. Resources currently available

Books all are available from: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/index.html

  • Dimock, Edward. A Bengali prose reader for second-year students
  • Dimock, Edward. Introduction to Bengali : a basic course in spoken Bengali, with emphasis upon speaking and understanding the language
  • Great Britain. India Office East India. (Statistical abstract) Statistical abstract relating to British India from....1840/1865
  • Hill, Edward C. A primer in Telugu characters.
  • Mishra, P. C.� A primer in Oriya characters
  • Naim, C.M. Introductory Urdu. Volumes 1 and 2
  • Naim, C.M. Readings in Urdu: prose and poetry
  • Ray, Babu Mallinath. Monograph on the wire and tinsel industry in Bengal
  • Venugopalan K. A primer in Grantha characters
  • Zide, Norman H. A Premchand reader

Bibliographies� all are available from� http://dsal.uchicago.edu/bibliographic/index.html�

  • British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections holdings of 19th-century Indian publications (OIOC)� Refreshed Jan 2001
  • Catalog of the Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) Refreshed Jan 2001
  • International Union List of South Asian Newspapers and Gazettes (Refreshed Oct 2000)
  • Library of Congress South Asia serials database
  • National Bibliography of Indian Literature (NBIL)
  • Official Publications of India Refreshed Jan 2001
  • Urdu library catalog of the Urdu Research Centre (URLC)

Dictionaries with full data

2. Being Processed
*This section is to let you all know what is on the horizon, I can not promise delivery dates for the following
Journals
We are currently working on a digital journal interface We are looking at JSTOR for ideas of text delivery and functionality. At this time we have a prototype test up for one volume of the Social Scientist, this allows for full text searching, display of page images and printing of PDFs.� The URL for the test site is: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/workspace/rebecca/journal/journal.html Titles that we are planning to bring up in this system include:

    • Mahfil/Journal of South Asian Literature
    • Annual of Urdu Studies
    • Social Scientist
Bibliographies

 Books
    We have data for a number of books in Indic languages. We have begun to deliver Indic scripts over the web using Unicode.
  1. F. Prichett�s Ab-e Hayat
  2. Pudumaipitham
  3. Ambai
  4. Koveru Kazhudaigal by Imaiyam

    We are also looking into offering all of our books in PDF format for ease of printing.
    Books in roman. We are in the middle of discussions with some of the area studies centers around the country about bringing up various titles published by the centers. Other books being worked on include:

  • Imperial Gazetteer of India. (all 26 volumes)
  • Katha short story collections
  • Statistical abstract relating to British India
    • The film for this set has been ordered from LOC and will be sent onto to India for scanning once it arrives in Chicago. The information will be presented in both a �page turner� interface as well as being available in spreadsheet format.
    • The first year is being entered in Excel spreadsheets as a test.
Images

  • British Library. We have images from the BL for part of their photography collection. The images have all been sized, tables of data have been loaded and the interface is designed, we are currently working final programming for the web searches.
  • AIIS. We just received a CD from AIIS with data for a test website. The data is from the Architecture collection. (AIIS is preparing the data for sculpture, numismatics, and paintings). There are some difficulties with data formats but we are working through that currently.

  Dictionariesconverted or under conversion:

    Many of these dictionaries�are accessible at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/index2.html� At the moment, only headwords are searchable.� You will notice that some of the SGML entities used during data input still are not converted.� We also have not yet quot;populated" the fields for display of the appropriate�scripts.
  • Apte, Vaman Shivaram, 1858-1892.�Revised and Enlarged Edition of Prin. V. S. Apte's�The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
  • Brown, Charles Philip, 1798-1884.�� A Telugu-English Dictionary.
  • Cappeller, Carl, 1842-1925.��A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Based Upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons
  • Fabricius, Johann Philipp, 1711-1791. J. P. Fabricius's Tamil and English dictionary.
  • Macdonell, Arthur Anthony, 1854-1930.�� A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary with Transliteration, Accentuation, and Etymological Analysis Throughout
  • Molesworth, J. T. (James Thomas), 1795-1872. A dictionary, Marathi and English
  • Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir,1819- 1899.� A Sanskrit-English Dictionary Etymologically and Philogically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages�
  • Pali Text Society, London. The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary.
  • Platts, John T. (John Thompson), 1830-1904.� A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English
  • Schmidt, Ruth Laila. A Practical dictionary of modern Nepali.
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903.�� A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be Met with in Persian Literature
  • Turner, R. Lister. A comparative dictionary of Indo-Aryan languages.

Dictionaries selected for conversion:

  • Bahri, Hardev. Learners' Hindi-English dictionary = Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi sabdakosa.
  • Berntsen, Rita Maxine, 1935-[Marathi teaching materials.]
  • Burrow, T. (Thomas) A Dravidian etymological dictionary.
  • Caturvedi, Mahendra. A practical Hindi-English dictionary.
  • Gwynn, J. P. L. (John Peter Lucius), A Telugu-English dictionary.
  • Hayyim, Sulayman. New Persian-English dictionary : complete and modern, designed to give the English meanings of over 50,000 words, terms, idioms, and proverbs in the Persian language, as well as the transliteration of the words in English characters.
  • McAlpin, David W. A core vocabulary for Tamil.
  • Mujtahedi, Yakoob Miran. An Urdu English dictionary formed by merging the entries from earlier dictionaries.
  • Nayyar Kakorvi, Nurulhasan.� Nurullughat
  • Shakespear, John, 1775-1858. A dictionary, Hindustani and English : with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani.
  • Winslow, Miron, A comprehensive Tamil and English dictionary of high and low Tamil

Maps

  • A set of map catalogs from the Indian Office Library are being converted into a database.
  • Proposal to FIPSE for more work on South Asia maps
Indexes

  • Index data for RMRL
  • Index data for URC

3.�Technology

Under review

  • Tracking usage, including capturing search terms for later analysis
  • XML data markup
  • Sound files for some language texts
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