User:Dominik Wujastyk

Dominik Wujastyk has degrees in Physics (Imperial College) and Sanskrit (Brasenose, Oxford), and a doctorate in Sanskrit. During his undergraduate years as a Sanskritist at Oxford, he attended courses in SNOBOL with Susan Hockey, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the automatic scansion of Sanskrit poetry using SNOBOL programming. In 1986 he took to the TeX typesetting system, after reading an article in Byte Magazine by Pierre MacKay on the typesetting of Arabic. He has used TeX (now XeTeX) ever since for all his writing. He later trained informally in library science while working as a curator at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. At the invitation of Lou Burnard, he chaired the first Text Documentation Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative, helping to develop the first versions of the TEI Header. Inspired by Willard Mccarty's HUMANIST listserv group, in 1990 he established the INDOLOGY listserv group (http://indology.info) that still remains an important social and academic forum for professional scholars of classical Indian culture. He has been involved in various initiatives (since 1988) to develop a corpus of machine-readable Sanskrit and other Indic-language literature, most recently the SARIT.indology.info project.