Dear Harry,

TST is a Franco-German project whose focus is the study of paratexts of (mostly Tamil) manuscripts.
See https://tst.hypotheses.org/

As a first step for this study we catalogue manuscripts in TEI-XML format files (using an online user-friendly editor set up by Charles Li: https://tst-project.github.io/editor/).

Our description files are displayed online on our online catalogue (also set up by Charles Li), along with digital images of the manuscripts, when available.
See https://tst-project.github.io/mss/
And e.g. https://tst-project.github.io/mss/Indien_0001.xml (in this case using a IIIF manifest, the digital images which are on Gallica are displayed with the description)
You will find mostly Tamil manuscripts on this catalogue, but also Sanskrit ones (search for instance the shelfmark "Sanscrit").

Note that most of the descriptions aren't yet reviewed, but will hopefully be at the time the funding of the project ends (in September 2022) and that further updates and corrections as well as addition of catalogue entries will be possible after September 2022.

With very best wishes.

Manu


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Le lun. 2 mai 2022 à 18:00, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :
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@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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