See also http://idp.bl.uk/ which is the parent project and international frame of cooperation for similar texts, many of which remain untranslated despite being digitized. There is a fairly strong need for people to study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi amongst other things. ML will probably help analyse the corpus eventually.
It is very interesting. And it has a million dollar prize too
When I started reading the title, it quickly switched from a sports car to a digital preservation effort. Loved the effect of the radical change of expected subject on my brain.
“ The Stein collection contains over 1000 copies of the Lotus Sutra in Chinese, which were acquired by Sir Marc Aurel Stein in 1907 and 1914, when he visited the so-called ‘Library Cave’ (Cave 17) at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, in the present-day Gansu Province in China.”
Nice way of saying theft - Fuck colonialism!
If this is theft, who's the thief? The explorers who bought the documents, or the monks who sold them?