Welcome to IBA-net, the homepage of the Integrated Buddhist Archives Network!
Mission statement
The Integrated Buddhist Archives Network (IBA-net) aims to foster interoperability and collaboration between institutions, groups and individuals creating and using digital resources of relevance to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies.
To achieve this goal, interested groups and individuals are invited to participate in the discussions, meetings and other activities by IBA-net. There is no membership, no membership fee and no organizational structure. More specifically, the following is planned:
A set of specifications, communication protocols and best practice advisories to enable websites or applications to benefit mutually from the work done elsewhere.
Communication will take place through this website, online forum, email discussion and ad-hoc meetings as needed.
News
[2008-11-10] Added a paper IBA-net: New perspectives for collaboration in Digital Buddhist Studies written for the annual PNC converence in Hanoi, Vietnam to be held in early December.
[2008-03-27]
Opened a Google discussion group at [iba-net] and
started sending out invitations. If you are interested,
please join the discussions there.
[2008-03-25]
Recently, I started to tag things that
might be relevant (in a very broad sense) to the discussions
here with 'iba-net' on delicious. This makes it easy
to collect them into a list, as is shown to the left. If
others do the same, we can easily collaboratively collect
relevant information here.
[2008-03-25]
The idea for IBA was discussed in July 2007 in Taipei at the CBETA office during an ad-hoc meeting attended by Ven. Huimin, Tu Aming, Marcus Bingenheimer and Christian Wittern. This resulted in a first proposal, which was circulated and discussed during the next months. The current version is Integrated Buddhist Archives
- IBA: An "Indra's Net" for Buddhist Studies
At the conference EBTI after 15 and CBETA at 10 Years: Joint International Conference on Digital Buddhist Studies there was a roundtable discussion attended by the speakers at the conference and other interested persons (altogether about 30 people). Here are some rough notes of this discussions.
By Christian Wittern, last modified 2009-02-18.