A TEI P5 Manuscript Description Adaptation for Cataloguing Digitized Arabic Manuscripts

It is incumbent upon libraries holding Arabic manuscripts to provide access to digitized surrogates of their holdings. Users require access both by authority list and by content. Thus, an exhaustive cataloguing method is essential. The TEI P5 Manuscript Description module is a suitable tool for manu...

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Hlavní autoři: Soualah, Mohammed Ourabah, Hassoun, Mohamed
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 2014
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On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:It is incumbent upon libraries holding Arabic manuscripts to provide access to digitized surrogates of their holdings. Users require access both by authority list and by content. Thus, an exhaustive cataloguing method is essential. The TEI P5 Manuscript Description module is a suitable tool for manuscript cataloguing, but it lacks certain features that would allow for exhaustive description of ancient Arabic manuscripts. In this article we make several suggestions that would augment the TEI P5 Manuscript Description module allowing for a richer and more accurate description and cataloging of ancient Arabic manuscripts.