17th century painting of a doctor taking a woman's pulse (l0000009)
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Wellcome Arabic manuscripts
Overview
The Wellcome Library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and King’s College London, have formed a partnership to create a free searchable online catalogue of 500 Islamic manuscripts in the Wellcome Library.
The partners will
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design a cataloguing system to create and manage descriptive metadata for Asian manuscripts, including adapting the ENRICH TEI metadata schema
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catalogue the manuscripts using this tool
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create cover-to-cover, high quality digital photographs of the manuscripts
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produce a website to enable sophisticated access to the metadata and its associated digital images
The website will be hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and digitised content will also be available via the Wellcome Library catalogue, pending inclusion of the complete catalogue on the Wellcome site when circumstances permit.
The project is partly funded by a grant from the JISC’s Islamic Studies Programme.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this project is to provide remote access to Islamic manuscripts via rich metadata and associated digital images.
The objectives are:
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to design and implement an open source cataloguing tool storing metadata as TEI P5
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to create rich descriptive metadata for each manuscript
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to create a web front-end to be hosted by the BA to deliver metadata and cover-to-cover images
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to create fully-formed MARC21 records for each intellectual work to facilitate resource discovery via the Wellcome Library catalogue
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to create around 75 000 full-colour images of the manuscripts for online access.
Project update
June 2011
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WAMCP cataloguing tool beta version is complete and is now in use for cataloguing
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Digitisation of all 500 manuscripts has now been completed
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The list of elements to include in the cataloguing schema has been finalised, and is based on the TEI/ENRICH standard (view the template [PDF 40KB] and the ODD file [PDF 88KB]).
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