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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Autores principales: Mohammed Ourabah Soualah, Mohamed Hassoun
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Publicado: OpenEdition 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/2e57a0a31a214909876fcd2b88e72472
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Sumario: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.