HANSEL
Human-Accessible
NLP-ready
Sanskrit E-text Library
Download
- HANSEL makes it easy to download data right from its home page. Under Cumulative Downloads, click “Build custom download”. Select your preferred formats, both for text — plain-text, XML, HTML, or original submissions — as well as for metadata, and click “Download”. Alternatively, just click this “All ... in all formats” link to grab everything at once. For individual items, go to the E-Texts section above. In List View, expand the arrow to find the individual links you need. Or, in Table View, find metadata under the info icon and other downloads under the download icon. For these individual downloads, right-click and “Save Link As”.
Contribute
- Contributing to HANSEL is simple. Whether you’re interested in correcting errors you find, or importing data from other projects like GRETIL, or digitizing from scratch, we're here to help you. Just go to the Contact Page, fill out the form — including a summary of your project idea in the message and any file attachments — and send. The project curator will reach out to provide any necessary help. You can continue to collaborate if you like, but it's optional, so don't hesitate, even if you're short on time. You’d be surprised how much we can automate to improve your material and get it online fast.
Read
- HANSEL also provides a reading interface, which displays the entire text in a single view. Find it via the main links in the E-Texts section. You’ll find complete metadata up top and a table of contents on the left. The top-right menu toggles optional features: location identifiers, line breaks, and line and page markers. The blue page markers link directly to the relevant page in the PDF. You can also toggle corrections made to the edition during digitization. A “Search-friendly” mode ensures more accurate Ctrl-F results by temporarily disabling the other features that would interfere. And you can transliterate the text. A final note: Texts that contain verse include a verse-styling toggle which makes individual stanzas more visually distinct.
ISCLS Demo
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Hi, I'm Tyler, and today I'll be presenting HANSEL, which is a Human-Accessible, NLP-ready, Sanskrit E-text Library. My personal website is here if you'd like to know about me.
In this brief presentation, I'll intro the project, then give you a demo in three parts, and finish with some concluding thoughts.
HANSEL launched just last year. It's live at hansel-library.info, and it's intended as a companion to GRETIL, that is, a place for Sanskrit e-texts to live online. But this is for new and newly modified material, rather than a mass migration. The project is part of my larger Kalpataru Grove ecosystem of projects. Now we'll start with the demo.
{three component demos above}
So to conclude, I hope this gives you a concrete sense of what HANSEL looks like and what it's able to do. The project is very much open to further contributions and development of relevant features. Some coming additions include the Prabodhacandrodaya, which is a nāṭaka text, and a new text of the Ratnāvalī by Nāgārjuna. The component demos that I've shown today are also available to view at the website.
Thank you so much for your time today. Please use these links to learn more.