User:OCIMCO
Oxford & Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online: OCIMCO
Project overview The Bodleian and Cambridge University Libraries hold manuscripts of some 10,000 Islamic texts, including many early and rare items. There is currently no electronic access to the Bodleian’s published Islamic manuscript catalogues and several hundred manuscripts can only be accessed through card catalogues. Similarly, while Cambridge University Library has scans of its printed catalogues online, these are not searchable, and a further 399 manuscript descriptions can only be accessed through card catalogues. This pilot project will make available to users in a searchable interface c.10,000 basic manuscript descriptions taken from printed and card catalogues of the two libraries.
Aims and objectives Basic manuscript descriptions will be created from the printed and published catalogues of both libraries using a TEI P5 metadata schema and will be made available through a searchable interface. The project will make use of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) currently in use for library projects within Oxford. All materials and metadata in the Open Access portion of the DAMS are fully accessible using OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE standards to maximise re-use in the wider community.
It is also hoped that another outcome of the current project, in collaboration with other, similar, projects, will be the formulation and maintenance of a TEI standard format for the description of manuscript texts written in the Arabic script, and one of the purposes of this page is to stimulate discussion about this standard.
