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Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts:

Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts:. Building Digital Bridges. Wellcome Library. One of the world’s major resources for the study of medical history 2.5 million books, journals, manuscripts, archives, films and pictorial works from the earliest times to the present day

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Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts:

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  1. Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts: Building Digital Bridges

  2. Wellcome Library • One of the world’s major resources for the study of medical history • 2.5 million books, journals, manuscripts, archives, films and pictorial works from the earliest times to the present day • Global content (134 languages represented) • Based in London and part of the Wellcome Trust

  3. Successful Partnership • Wellcome Library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina and King’s College London • International partnership involving members of the World Digital Library • Funded by JISC’s Islamic Studies Programme and the Wellcome Trust • Long-term commitment View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  4. Our Ambition • Provide free and easy global access to valuable intellectual content • Create a virtual library with rich descriptive information and detailed images of the objects • Enable free reuse and repurpose of images under the Creative Commons Licence • Develop a flexible and freely available cataloguing tool View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  5. Content and Theme • 500 Arabic manuscripts from 12th to 20th century held by the Wellcome Library • From well-known medical texts by famous practitioners to texts by anonymous physicians and rare or unique copies • Representing great heritage of classical medicine in the Islamic world, from Southern Spain to South and South-east Asia View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  6. Audience • Islamic studies specialists, in particular scholars of Arabic medicine, science and history • Scholars and cataloguing professionals working with manuscripts written in Arabic script • Conservators, calligraphers, museum workers and others interested in ancient manuscripts as objects

  7. Results? View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  8. Cover-to-cover, high quality full colour digital images of 500 manuscripts View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  9. A unique cataloguing tool • Simple and flexible, open source, uses TEI P5based XML schema • Enables linking between descriptive fields and the corresponding text on the manuscript • Able to reflect the richness of manuscript description • Can be adapted to other languages and standards

  10. Rich descriptive metadata for over 400 manuscripts View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  11. Website with a wealth of search features View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  12. Browsing and Faceted Filtering View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  13. Downloadable Content as PDF/JPEG

  14. Zooming Endlessly

  15. Associating metadata with the pages View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  16. Comparing manuscripts side by side View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  17. Ongoing work • Metadata creation for the remaining manuscripts • Posting remaining content on the website • Records conversion to MARC21 • Publishing the cataloguing tool as open-source software for authoring structured XML files • Advocacy of the metadata schema and cataloguing practices View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  18. Feedback so far • “The Arabic manuscripts website looks superb.” • “Wow! This is an amazing resource.” • “The more I explore WACMP, the more impressed I am.” • “The WAMCP Portal looks fabulous! The amount of data put in and retrievable is awe-inspiring!” View…Master…Slide Master, to change this text to the title of your presentation

  19. http://wamcp.bibalex.org

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