<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from the Wellcome Trust, via the DigLib list. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>The Wellcome Library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and King's College<br>
London, have formed a partnership to create a free searchable online<br>
catalogue of 500 Islamic manuscripts in the Wellcome Library.<br>
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The partners will<br>
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* design a cataloguing system to create and manage descriptive metadata<br>
for Asian manuscripts, including adapting the ENRICH TEI metadata schema<br>
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* catalogue the manuscripts using this tool<br>
* create cover-to-cover, high quality digital photographs of the<br>
manuscripts<br>
* produce a website to enable sophisticated access to the metadata and<br>
its associated digital images.<br>
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The website will be hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and digitised<br>
content will also be available via the Wellcome Library catalogue,<br>
pending inclusion of the complete catalogue on the Wellcome site when<br>
circumstances permit.<br>
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The project is partly funded by a grant from the JISC's Islamic Studies<br>
Programme.<br>
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For more information visit<br>
<a href="http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/arabicproject.html" target="_blank">http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/arabicproject.html</a>.<br>
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<<a href="http://library.wellcome.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://library.wellcome.ac.uk</a>><br>
<<a href="http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/</a>><br>
<<a href="http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx</a>><br>
<<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/http:/www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch" target="_blank">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/http:/www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch</a>><br>
<<a href="http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/" target="_blank">http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/</a>><br>
<<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/islamdigi.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/islamdigi.aspx</a>><br>
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Christy Henshaw<br>
Digitisation Project Manager<br>
Wellcome Library <<a href="http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/</a>><br>
183 Euston Road<br>
London NW1 2BE<br>
+44 (0)20 7611 7333<br>
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charity, no. 210183. Its sole Trustee is the Wellcome Trust Limited, a<br>
company registered in England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is<br>
215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.<br>
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