The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB]: A Model for the Sustainable Development of a Collaborative, Field-wide Web Reference Service DH Stanford.

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The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB]: A Model for the Sustainable Development of a Collaborative, Field-wide Web Reference Service DH Stanford University June 19-22, 2011 A.Charles Muller University of Tokyo Center for Evolving Humanities

Why Are There So Few Comprehensive “Field Reference Services”? Joseph Raben: “Humanities Computing in an Age of Social Change,” Keynote Lecture, Digital Humanities, King’s College, 8th July 2010: “It seems ironic that the community of scholars dedicated to promoting wired access to the riches of the humanist tradition have so far failed to create a Wiki of their own activities. To rely on the imprecise algorythmic methods of Google, which is basically an advertising medium designed by computer engineers without any evident input from the scholarly community, scarcely seems like appropriate behavior for a group that prides itself on the minute accuracy of its own documents...“

Raben, continued: “...And while Wikipedia probably contains a good deal of information regarding Digital Humanities, that information is so scattered among all the other types of information it contains, and is so subjected to random editing that it cannot be relied on for comprehensiveness, interconnectivity, or timeliness... ”

Why Are There So Few Comprehensive “Field Reference Services”? Jaron Lanier: (You Are Not A Gadget) : Lanier tracked a broad range of scholarly reference web sites, and reported that virtually all of them either stopped growing, or disappeared entirely after the emergence of Google, Wikipedia, and related technologies.

Introducing the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB) (and companion CJKV-E Dictionary)DDB The DDB is a... Comprehensive (55,000 entries), collaborative, online reference work, edited by academic specialists in the field of Buddhist Studies. Online since 1995, it achieved broad recognition as a leading field reference work around Now cited regularly in scholarly works, and subscribed to by over 40 major university libraries40 major university libraries Features state-of-the art backend technology seen in its (TEI-influenced)-XML, XSL, indexing, search and delivery functions.search and delivery functions

Usage by Scholars Nowadays, the DDB is used as a reference tool by students studying Buddhism at such schools as Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, Yale, UVa, Michigan, Princeton, Columbia, and virtually all other major universities in North America and Europe that have programs that include the study of Buddhism in a significant manner.

Collaboration by Scholars Content is edited by more than 70 scholars, including a substantial contingent of noted field leaders, whose contributions are clearly documented and displayed.contributions The technical structure and function of the DDB is administered by specialists in XML and related technologies, with the primary framework and delivery handled by Michael Beddow.

Early Developments 1986 – work initiated with book publication in mind – placed on web with approx entries, in simple HTML hardlinked format, envisioning the framework of a heretofore unimagined collaborative project Conversion of source data to XML 2001 – Michael Beddow creates real Web search delivery with Perl/XSL (approx. 5,000 entries)

Building of Critical Mass 2002 – Completed input of digitized materials from a major copyright-expired reference work on Buddhism (Soothill’s Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms) (funded by JSPS), and along with my own input, raised the DDB content to 15,000 entries, thus creating a respectable basic range of coverage.

What? No Contributions? But despite the extensive volunteer efforts of Michael and myself to offer all this material for free with the hope of stimulating collaboration, as of 2002, despite our strongly-expressed requests for contributions from scholarly users, except for a very small handful of forward-thinking scholars, we were receiving almost no contributions. Yet, we had clear numerical data and anecdotal information that this resource was now being used extensively for teaching and research by many scholars in our field.

Getting Mean: Carrot/Stick Access Policies We thus began to experiment with leveraging the password policy (which had originally been set up only for security) to establish a two-tiered access structure: member/guest. We started out giving guests 50 searches a day (which they were all quite happy with), then gradually decreased the number in increments of 10 until people began to scream—at which point we knew we had the right number (10 daily searches). And so, we began to tell them...

“If you want full access, you have to contribute, one way or another” For qualified scholars, one A4 (letter) page of data for two years of full access. Actually, quite small, but the aim, which has been successful, is to create a sense of being a collaborator rather than a simple “user.” A surprising number of highly-respected scholars began to operate in a way that they never had before, and even began to develop a sense of pride and belonging in being part of the project. To meet the demand for non-scholars who wanted access, we offered the option of subscription at $30 per year. University libraries at $250 (cheap, I am told). Now we had a small, but steady income that we used for creating and adding new data, and thus the size of the database continued to grow faster and faster, and this continues to be the case up to today.

The final critical element: broadcasting credit Numbers and quality of the resource alone do not make for project success: Communication, especially regarding the contributions of scholar-members, is of critical importance. Success of the model is based greatly on devoting energy to making known the contributions of collaborators: node level, web site (Contributors), monthly newsletter, monthly data postings.node levelContributors monthly data postings

Major Leap Forward: Interoperation with SAT Online Text Database 2008 – For the first time, the DDB was applied directly to an online canonical text database, based on the work of Kiyonori Nagasaki of IIDH.online canonical text database 2008 – Reverse linking: based on documentation provided on the SAT web site, we were also able to link entries directly back into their locations in the Taishō via SAT.in the Taishō via SAT

Select a portion of text Basic meanings from DDB, along with a link into the dictionary are generated

Is this Model Replicable? Basic Requirements A small, but dedicated team of capable editors, with a clear goal in mind. Ongoing technical support. Today, relevant CMS and people with DH programming know- how are in far great abundance than they were when we started the DDB. An initial startup grant to create enough critical mass to draw attention away from competing nonscholarly agglomerations..

Thank you! 恕 [ “reciprocity”]