The Bahá’í Writings
The authoritative texts in English as published at bahai.org, and a Korean-English glossary of Bahá’í terminology deduced from them.
The glossary exists because the official Korean translations have never been indexed. They are the only authority on what these terms are in Korean, so the words were read out of the translations themselves, passage by passage against the English, rather than chosen by anyone here. No translator has reviewed any of it.
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The library
75 works · 2,864 sections · 3,875,233 words
The authoritative texts in English, as published at bahai.org. Every section was checked word for word against the file the publisher serves, so this is the same text with nothing added to it and nothing taken out. Everything else here is built on it.
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The glossary
1,610 terms read · 950 written more than one way
Every Bahá’í term in the English with the Korean the official translations write for it, read passage by passage with the plain sense of both languages as the test. Where the translations write a term more than one way, every form is listed.
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The catalogue
1,610 terms · 3,576 Korean forms · 950 terms written more than one way
Every English term in the corpus, with every Korean form the official translations use for it. A term is here because it is terminology in the English, and no Korean evidence adds or removes one. Each form was read off the passages it is listed against, and the counts say how often it was found and decide nothing. All 1,610 terms have now been read.
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The errata list
3,575 places · 345 read by eye
Where the translations disagree with themselves, collected for whoever revises them next. One book writing one term two ways, two terms rendered by one Korean word, a bracket that never closes, a passage that carries nothing for a term it should. Most of it a count found. The rest was read, including a sentence whose argument comes out the other way round and a word that is the opposite of the English.
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The first glossary
224 entries · 1,508 paired passages · 13 books
The earlier way of doing the same thing, kept for comparison. It scores each pairing by how cleanly a Korean form tracks an English term across the passages, and publishes an entry once it scores well enough. Reading every passage replaced it: slower, and it catches the obvious meanings and variants a score misses.
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How it is built
13 Korean books aligned against the English
What was done, in order, and what it cannot do. How the two texts were lined up, how a Korean word is told from a fragment of one, which checks found something and which found nothing, and the mistakes that had to be corrected along the way.