Publications and resources

TibSchol publications are also accessible in Open Access through the institutional repository of the Austrian Academy of Sciences epub.oeaw.  Link to the repository.

• Hugon, Pascale, ‘Thunderbolt Blaze’ or ‘Armless Hero’? – On the Authorship of the Essence of Debate. In: Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Jue Liang, and William McGrath (eds.), Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, New York, NY, 2023: Wisdom Publications, 339–354. Link to epub.


• Griffiths, Rachael, Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations. The Digital Orientalist, 1 November 2022. Link, PDF.


• Griffiths, Rachael, Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER. The Digital Orientalist, 25 October 2022. Link, PDF.

• Presentation of TibSchol HTR tools. PDF. Zenodo.
  • Tibetan cursive (Drutsa) public model on Transkribus. Link to description on Read.
  • Tibetan cursive (Betsug) public model on Transkribus. Link to description on Read.


• Ground Truth data for handwritten Tibetan cursive scripts (Drutsa and Betsug)
  • Ground Truth Metadata. PDF.
  • Ground Truth dataset. GitHub. Zenodo.


• List of Tibetan abbreviations found in the TibSchol corpus. GitHub. Zenodo.


• Scripts developed for processing and enhancing scans/images of works contained in the TibSchol corpus:
  • PDF to JPG converter. GitHub. Zenodo.
  • Image processing. GitHub. Zenodo.
  • Image segmentation. GitHub. Zenodo.