Who runs the site?

Name:

Richard MAHONEY

Organisation:

Indica et Buddhica Limited (Company number: 2185898) a private consulting firm focusing on digital publishing, mainly on systems and services for textual analysis, text indexing and retrieval, text encoding, and enterprise content management.

Indica et Buddhica is also responsible for the production, sale and distribution of Richard Mahoney's photographic prints.

Current projects:

Trained in Classical and Buddhist Studies most recent work has been in humanities computing. Attention is also given to large-format architectural photography.

Currently in prep is a platform for the analysis of Sanskrit texts -- Philologica. A project is also underway to document rural and industrial decay in New Zealand through architectural images -- Camera Antipodea.

Main focus:

Open source publishing. Web applications for textual analysis and text indexing and retrieval. Standards compliant text markup and encoding for web applications and typesetting. Web content management. Web application frameworks. Consultancy and Support Services.

Large-format architectural photography.

Experience:

Deployment and support of educational and research environments using:

• Enterprise Content Management Systems -- Nuxeo CPS 4 (Zope/Python) and Infrae's Silva (Zope/Python)
• Zebra -- ``a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine''
• YAZ -- ``a programmers' toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers''
• MARC21 and MARCXML source data
• XSL Transformations (XSLT)
• PHP forms and Perl CGI
• HTML markup (HTML, SHTML, XHTML, CSS)
• Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) servers and databases
• Textual analysis platforms -- PhiloLogic
• Encoding texts following Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines (XML)
• Typesetting -- TeX and LaTeX
• LDAP authentication -- Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition
• Operating Systems -- Sun's Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
• Web servers -- Apache 2 and Sun Java System Web Server
  
• Proxy Servers and Load Balancers -- Apache 2 and Sun Microsystems' Java System Web Proxy Server
  
• Databases -- MySQL and PostgreSQL

Additional experience in large-format architectural photography.

Availability:

Available to discuss involvement in:

• New projects
• Joint ventures
• Consultancy and support

Contact details:

Please direct all telephone calls and emails to:

Richard MAHONEY
 Telephone: +64 3 312 1699
 Fax: +64 3 312 1699 (manual)
 Email: contact@indica-et-buddhica.com
 Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:30-5:30 NZ Time (GMT+12)

Please direct all other correspondence to:

Short Vitae:

Advisory Board Member and List Editor for H-Buddhism.

Formed Indica et Buddhica Limited (Company number: 2185898) -- details available through the New Zealand Companies Office.

Co-founder of Hounds 4 Homes Incorporated (Registration number: CC29400) a charity educating the community  about retired racing greyhounds and helping to place them in suitable homes -- details available through the New Zealand Charities Commission.

Invited to take a doctorate under Prof. Dr Michael HAHN, Fachgebiet Indologie und Tibetologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg. (Not taken up.)

University of Canterbury, Dept of Philosophy and Religious Studies : M.A. (Hons), 1^st class, in Religious Studies · primary emphasis Buddhist Studies under Prof. Dr Paul HARRISON (now Stanford University).
» M.A. Thesis: Of the progresse of the bodhisattva: the bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya · examiners: Prof. Dr Paul HARRISON; Prof. Dr Jens BRAARVIG (Universitetet i Oslo); and Prof. Dr Jonathan SILK (Yale University, now Universiteit Leiden).

» Research Paper: The Perfections Extoll’d: Transcendental Virtues in the ‘Bodhicaryāvatāra’ of Śāntideva · examiners: Prof. Dr Paul HARRISON; Prof. Dr Luis GOMEZ (University of Michigan); and Prof. Dr Toni HUBER (Victoria University of Wellington, now Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Victoria University of Wellington, Dept of Classics : B.A. (Hons), 2^nd class 1^st division, in Classical Studies

Victoria University of Wellington, Depts of Classics and History : B.A. · primary emphasis, Classical Studies ; secondary emphasis, History

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