[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit manuscript collections at the Internet Archive

[Harry Spier]

To answer my own question about what are "IIIF services" here is the link I
found.
https://iiif.io
" IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed
digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community
developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium
of leading cultural institutions".
Harry Spier


On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 11:59 AM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Charles
>
> 1.Ccould you elaborate a little more about the "Texts surrounding Texts
> Project" and their open source tools.
>
> 2. I'm not clear what you mean by "the IIIF service that archive.org
> provides".
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:54 AM Charles Li via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> I can personally attest to how useful Dominik's archive.org reviews are!
>> They've saved me a lot of work in the past.
>>
>> What's more, with the IIIF service that archive.org provides, together
>> with the open source tools we're putting together as part of the Texts
>> Surrounding Texts Project, you can easily put together your own descriptive
>> catalogue of material on archive.org. Here is a detailed catalogue entry
>> I just made, of a digitized manuscript from Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
>> National Sanskrit University:
>>
>> https://tst-project.github.io/mss/SLBSNS_02_04_322.xml
>>
>> There is really a lot of material out there now, it's pretty great!
>>
>> PS Thanks for bringing up this topic, giving me a chance to advertise...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>> On 2022-05-01 06:29, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY wrote:
>>
>> In a small way, I've been keeping collection-level links here:
>> https://indology.info/external-resources/   , i.e., identifiably
>> individual collections living at archive.org.  But there's a tremendous
>> amount more than what I've noted.
>>
>> The metadata (=catalogue data) at archive.org is notoriously bad, for
>> perfectly understandable reasons.  Many people have thought about this
>> issue, obviously, but it would be a very expensive undertaking to catalogue
>> even a part of what's there and even at a minimal cataloguing record
>> level.  The Archive.org people take the "Google search" approach, i.e., you
>> find what you need by searching using carefully-constructed keywords.  This
>> is surprisingly effective, but lots falls through the cracks, as we all
>> know from personal experience.
>>
>> My personal approach has been twofold:
>>
>>    1. When I can, I add proper metadata in the "review" field.  And a
>>    permalink URL pointing to worldcat.org.
>>    2. Specifically for manuscripts, when I can, I add a link from
>>    PanditProject.org and vice-versa.
>>
>> What I do is purely opportunistic and just a drop in the ocean, but it
>> helps me in the long run, and may help others.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dominik
>>
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