{"id":4067,"date":"2019-09-10T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T13:27:56","slug":"openn-a-primary-digital-collection-available-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/openn-a-primary-digital-collection-available-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"OPenn: a primary digital collection available for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

OPenn<\/a> contains complete sets of high-resolution archival images of cultural heritage material from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and other institutions, along with machine-readable descriptive and technical metadata.<\/p>\n

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All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons<\/a> licenses as Free Cultural Works<\/a>. Materials are free to download and use under the license assigned to each document. OPenn encourages that whenever possible, to cite the website and the holding institution when material are used. Many of the manuscripts on OPenn were digitized through grants and awards from public and private donors.<\/p>\n

The data on OPenn is intended for aggregators, digital humanists, and scholars. Many of the images here are available via more user-friendly page-turning applications on institutional websites.\u00a0OPenn regularly adds new repositories and new documents in order to bring more data to the public. Check back often to see what’s new.<\/p>\n

Manuscript descriptions<\/h2>\n

Manuscript cataloging incorporates not only the identification of the author, title, date of origin, and provenance, but also, detailed descriptions intended to aid the palaeographer, codicologist, art historian, historian, and philologist. A description of the manuscript cataloging, with technical and non-technical detail, is given in the Technical ReadMe document.<\/p>\n

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The following example is taken from Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, <\/a>one of the housed repositories on OPenn.
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Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type:TEI MS Or 21 al-Mulakhkhas\u0323 fi\u0304 al-hay\u02bcah. \/ \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629<\/p><\/div>\n

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Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type:TEI MS Or 21 al-Mulakhkhas\u0323 fi\u0304 al-hay\u02bcah. \/ \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629<\/p><\/div>\n

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Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type:TEI MS Or 21 al-Mulakhkhas\u0323 fi\u0304 al-hay\u02bcah. \/ \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629<\/p><\/div>\n

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Documents: the images of these documents are accompanied by detailed manuscript descriptions in machine-readable TEI format.<\/h6>\n
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Images: there are three types of images\u00a0 are delivered for each manuscript element.<\/h6>\n
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MS Or 21: al-Mulakhkhas\u0323 fi\u0304 al-hay\u02bcah. \/ \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629 (India?, between 1500 and 1840?, Not dated; text was dedicated to Ulugh Beg when first composed; a marginal note on p. 2 also gives a date of A.H. 1256 (1840).)<\/p><\/div>\n

Repositories<\/h2>\n

An OPenn repository is a group of documents belonging to a single institutional collection, all having the same metadata format. OPenn hosts 40 repositories<\/a> from different institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania several repositories.<\/p>\n

Curated Collections<\/h2>\n

An OPenn curated collection is a group of documents belonging to one or more repositories. A curated collection allows for the grouping of items by topic, theme, or project and may not have the same metadata format. OPenn hosts 5 curated collections<\/a>:<\/p>\n