Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery

Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery Presentation for JISC Programme Meeting, October 2009

Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery
Pilot project to make available electronically all that a scholar requires to work on a manuscript
Therefore, material being digitised includes
Manuscripts
Manuscript catalogues
Language dictionaries

Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery
One of three projects funding under Phase 2 of the JISC – NEH JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitisation Collaboration Grants
Starting September 2009; completing February 2011
SOAS awarded £86,689
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Importance of manuscripts for Islamic studies Maps shows distribution of Islam. Image courtesy: University of Texas Libraries

Arabic script
وصل إلى بريطانيا اليوم النائب الهولندي اليميني خييرت فيلدرز وذلك بعد ان ربح طعنا تقدم به ضد قرار الحكومة البريطانية الذي قضى بمنعه من دخول البلاد
Digitising and using Optical Character Recognition to transcibe such text is one of the most serious challenges of this project

Cooperating collections
Yale University Library
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Library

Choice of materials
Works of high intellectual value
Selection of manuscript catalogues and dictionaries
Out-of-copyright
Titles with volumes missing in the other collection which can thereby completed digitally

SOAS Manuscripts
Selected from Persian manuscripts that have never been catalogued properly before
Selected for rarity and special significance of content
Samples of material from SOAS to be digitised are shown on the next few slides

Ganj al-ganj (from SOAS collection)

Manuscript catalogues

Bodleian Arabic mss catalogue

Dictionaries

Kazimirski Arabic to French

Repositories
Yale’s project Ameel has developed full-text repository using Fedora open source framework
SOAS uses E-print for digital libraires
Project will work on cross-collection transatlantic searching between systems
Tables for linking variant spellings of names

JISC’s role
Two other JISC funded projects on Islamic materials in UK
Projects do not overlap but complement each other
Laying the foundations for union catalogue of all UK Islamic manuscripts
JISC funding for CeDAAME (Centre for Digital Asia, Africa and Middle East) in SOAS

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