EBTI/CBETA Conference 2008

List of Speakers

These are the speakers that have confirmed their attendance. List and program will be finalized in November 2007.

Keynote Address:
Lewis Lancaster: "The State of the Art in Digital Humanities" [abstract]

Closing Remarks:
Ching-chun Hsieh

Presenters & Topics:

Huimin Bhikṣu:	From CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association) to BIP (Buddhist Informatics Program) and IBA (Integrated Buddhist Archives) [abstract]
Jens Braarvig:	Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae [abstract]
David Germano:	Tibetan Canons & Integrated Reference Resources [abstract]
Tony K. Lin:	On the Ranjana Script in the Xuzangjing — with Focus on the Ranjana Letters from the CBETA Database [abstract]
John McRae:	The Online Presentation of the BDK Tripiṭaka Translation Series [abstract]
Charles Muller:	Online Collaboration as the Basis for Building an Online Lexicographical Resource: Lessons from the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism Project[abstract]
Kiyonori Nagasaki:	Outline of the Activities of the SAT Project [abstract]
Toshinori Ochiai:	The Digital Archives of Old Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts ― Currrent Plans and Their Implementation
Yun-Hee Oh, Eun-su Cho:	Tripitaka Koreana Knowledgebase - Text-Image Database for effective reading of the Text [abstract]
Morten Schlütter:	Problematizing the Digital: The Use and Misuse of Electronic Text in the Study of Chinese Buddhist History [abstract]
Min Bahadur Shakya:	The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: Its prospects and future [abstract]
Peter Skilling:	The Fragile Palm Leaves Database: Problems and Prospects [abstract]
Christian Wittern:	Reading the Text, Weaving the Web: Scholarly Interactions with Digital Text [abstract]
Yap Cheah Shen:	An open source, cross-platform and embeddable search engine for the Pali Tipitaka [abstract]