Project partners
The Wellcome Library will be supplying the digital images, providing directorship and project management, cataloguing, ensuring quality of cataloguing work, ensuring long-term preservation of metadata and digital images and making images and descriptive metadata available on the Wellcome Library website. The project
director is Dr Richard Aspin, Head of Research and Scholarship. Dr Nikolai Serikoff, Asian Collections Librarian, provides the intellectual and technical expertise.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina will lead on software and web development, carry out cataloguing, manage and deliver descriptive metadata and digital images and host the website. Leading the project at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is Dr Magdy Nagi and Dr Noha Adly, Director and Deputy Director of the ICT Sector, in
conjunction with Dr Youssef Ziedan, Head of the Manuscripts Museum.
King’s College London provides expert advice on creation of technical specifications, will design and implement a suitable XML schema for metadata management and provide expert input on web delivery. Simon Tanner leads King's involvement, with Gerhard Brey and Elena Pierazzo providing
the technical expertise in software development and the TEI schema.
The JISC has provided a large proportion of funding to this project through a grant under the Islamic Studies Programme.
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