After seven years of service, Jann Ronis will be stepping down as Executive Director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). During his tenure, Jann provided steady leadership through a period of significant transition, growth and challenge. He advanced BDRC’s mission to preserve and provide access to Buddhist...
Most people have never seen a Tibetan typewriter let alone had a chance to use one, but here we share some photographs from the University of Vienna that provide a close up view of how they operated. ...
BDRC plans to digitize 150 important Tibetan texts from the collection of our founder, E. Gene Smith. All have unique content and are previously unpublished, or are important specimens of old xylographs or manuscripts that need to be digitized in full color. ...
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan....
Announcing a major update to the Buddhist Digital Resource Center's digital library, BUDA! Explore the new beta version at beta.bdrc.io and share your feedback—it's essential to helping us improve. This update is based on your valuable input, and we're excited to share four key new...
BDRC's most recent collaboration with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives is the digital preservation of hundreds of never-before-published texts from their renowned Manuscripts Division. ...
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs....
BDRC is proud to announce an exciting project that will contribute a powerful new app and millions of pages of primary materials to Tibetan Studies. This cutting-edge, cross-platform desktop tool for optical character recognition (OCR) of Tibetan scripts will ‘unlock’ the writing embedded in scans...
Do you wonder about the sources of the texts BDRC digitizes and puts online? Although we seek out undocumented texts ourselves, we also aim to amplify manuscripts that local partners have recovered, edited, and published. Here are two inspiring examples of community preservation work that...
BDRC is well known for digitization work with libraries and local partners, but did you know that our method of digital preservation involves much more than scanning? We also work alongside librarians to make improvements to library management and lending systems....