[INDOLOGY] Qalamos cataloguing project

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear Dr Krause,

May I draw your attention to the Pandit Project <http://panditproject.org>?
This public project collects and publishes information about South Asian
manuscripts, with live links to data-fields on authors, works, scribes,
locations and scholarly literature.  Perhaps you are already aware of the
Pandit Project?

It would be superb if the Qalamos data could also be provided through the
Pandit Project.  It is always a bit distressing to see multiple projects
duplicating their efforts, and Qalamos and PanditProject are doing very
much the same kind of work, collecting information about manuscripts across
multiple institutions and based on published catalogues.  If you are
interested, may I suggest you contact the director of the Pandit Project,
Dr Yigal Bronner, whose details are available on the PP website?

Thank you for your consideration,
Dominik Wujastyk


--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk
<https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History, Classics, and Religion
<http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.


South Asia at the UofA:

sas.ualberta.ca

SSHRC research: The Suśruta Project <http://sushrutaproject.org>

Journal: History of Science in South Asia <http://hssa-journal.org>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 08:29, Krause, Dr. Anett <
Anett.Krause at sbb.spk-berlin.de> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
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> I would like to inform you that the second phase of the "Qalamos" project
> has begun and that we are now entering metadata of South Asian manuscripts
> held in Germany into the "Qalamos" portal from the Berlin State Library and
> the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
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> One of our central tasks is the retroconversion of the printed catalogues.
> This means transferring the meta-data into the Qalamos database. As the
> manuscript descriptions are very heterogeneous, especially in the old
> catalogues, our aim is to present the data in the Qalamos portal in a
> uniform and structured way. We use a minimum standard that includes the
> following data: Owner, signature, object ID, catalogue, volume, form type
> (e.g. pothi), language, script, dating, title and author. To ensure that no
> information is lost, the data records in Qalamos are successively linked to
> the digital copies of the catalogues, if available.
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> Another important aspect of our work is linking the data with each other
> and with standardised data, preferably from the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND)
> or the Library of Congress (LoC). We create a work data-entry for important
> works. All manuscripts containing this work or parts of it, as well as
> commentaries or other adaptations, are then linked to this entry. This
> allows you to see at a glance where copies of this text or other related
> texts are available.
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> In Berlin, we start with the oldest part of the collection held in the
> Berlin State Library, the four-volume catalogue by Albrecht Weber. Our
> colleague in Munich is starting to record the Munich holdings with the
> catalogue of the Indologist Theodor Aufrecht.
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> At a later date, the data of the South Asian manuscripts recorded in the
> "KOHD-Digital" database will also be imported into the "Qalamos" portal.
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> This text is a summary of my blog post written in German:
> https://od-portal.hypotheses.org/2476
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> Link to Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/content/index.xed
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> Best regards
>
> Anett Krause
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> Dr. Anett Krause
>
> Orientabteilung – wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
> Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz
> Potsdamer Str. 33
> D-10785 Berlin
> Tel+49-30-266-432652
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> Anett.Krause at sbb-spk-berlin.de
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