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Manuscript Descriptions encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative

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Manuscript Descriptions encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

This repository contains TEI-encoded XML files for manuscripts held in the library at Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection holds a great variety of manuscripts from regions spanning the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, South East Asia, and East Asia. This repository is part of our effort to use TEI to provide consistent cataloguing descriptions that are responsive to the range of languages, layouts and scribal practices on display in these manuscript materials.

Draft documentation for our practices is available, also in HTML format. We follow the guidelines for TEI manuscript description defined by the msDesc schema. In time, we wish to draw on our developing experience of TEI for Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African manuscripts to suggest expansions of the msDesc schema.

wellcome-collection-tei's Issues

Indic/B_19_l.xml - Raghavan numbers

You note that there's no "Alpha" number and you give the xml:id as

<msItem xml:id="B.19.l">

It would be good to identify the B.19.l number as being a reference to the 1954 "Raghavan List".

The text of this Raghavan List has never been made publicly available, and it would be a mistake to let the Raghavan numbers escape into the public domain if at all possible, since readers would inevitably start using them for ordering and reference. These are obsolete numbers that, after accessioning ic complete, will have only historical interest.

Nevertheless, the Raghavan List has been transcribed as a LaTeX (>PDF) file and should be made available internally at the WL, especially if these XML files are going to refer to it.

The nomenclature "Alpha number" might also be reconsidered. I always referred to "the Greek-letter sequence". Whichever naming convention is chosen, it should be as clear as possible and be used consistently.

Write an XML lint for consistent manuscript identifiers

Statements of responsibility in Arabic/README.md

These XML files refer at various places to the person "gbrey".

These are references to the late Gerhard Brey, King's College London, who did most of the technical work on creating the XML-based system for the Arabic MSS. Gerhard also knew Arabic and the History of Science, and had input along with Nikolaj Serikoff into the content of the descriptive entries.

There is an obituary for Gerhard at http://eadh.org/people/memorials/gerhard-breys-memorial

I am mentioning all this because Gerhard was an exceptionally talented person whose premature death was a blow to everyone connected with this project. It would be appropriate that he be prominently acknowledged in connection with the Arabic online cataloguing project.

Nikolaj Serikoff's contribution should also be acknowledge clearly, of course, but this is already done in the README.md file.

Decide on a consistent scheme for the `xml:id`

At the top of every TEI file is a <TEI> element with an xml:id, e.g.

<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="Hebrew_B_21">

Currently they're a bit of an inconsistent mess:

List of all xml:id values

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Wellcome_Batak_330890
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Batak_36863
Wellcome_Batak_36960
Wellcome_Batak_56303
Wellcome_Batak_56330
Wellcome_Batak_63570
Wellcome_Batak_66485
Wellcome_Batak_66486
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Wellcome_Batak_91624
Batak_330894
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Egyptian_MS_2
Egyptian_3
Egyptian_4
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Egyptian_MS_6
Egyptian_MS_7
Egyptian_MS_8
Ethiopian_1
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Ethiopian_12
Ethiopian_13
Ethiopian_14
Ethiopian_15
Ethiopian_16
Ethiopian_17
Ethiopian_18
Ethiopian_19
Ethiopian_20
Ethiopian_21
Ethiopian_20
Ethiopian_23
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Ethiopian_25
Ethiopian_26
Ethiopian_27
Ethiopian_3
Ethiopian_4
Ethiopian_5
Ethiopian_6
Ethiopian_7
Ethiopian_8
Ethiopian_9
Hebrew_A_1
Hebrew_A_10
Hebrew_A_11
Hebrew_A_12
Hebrew_A_13
Hebrew_A_14
Hebrew_A_15
Hebrew_A_16
Hebrew_A_17
Hebrew_A_18
Hebrew_A_19
Hebrew_A_2
Hebrew_A_20
Hebrew_A_21
Hebrew_A_22
Hebrew_A_23
Hebrew_A_24
Hebrew_A_25
Hebrew_A_26
Hebrew_A_27
Hebrew_A_28
Hebrew_A_29
Hebrew_A_3
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Hebrew_A_31
Hebrew_A_32
Hebrew_A_33
Hebrew_A_34
Hebrew_A_35
Hebrew_A_36
Hebrew_A_4
Hebrew_A_5
Hebrew_A_6
Hebrew_A_7
Hebrew_A_8
Hebrew_A_9
Hebrew_B_1
Hebrew_B_10
Hebrew_B_11
Hebrew_B_12
Hebrew_B_13
Hebrew_B_14
Hebrew_B_15
Hebrew_B_16
Hebrew_B_17
Hebrew_B_18
Hebrew_B_19
Hebrew_B_2
Hebrew_B_20
Hebrew_B_21
Hebrew_B_22
Hebrew_B_23
Hebrew_B_24
Hebrew_B_25
Hebrew_B_26
Hebrew_B_27
Hebrew_B_28
Hebrew_B_29
Hebrew_B_3
Hebrew_B_30
Hebrew_B_31
Hebrew_B_32
Hebrew_B_33
Hebrew_B_34
Hebrew_B_35
Hebrew_B_36
Hebrew_B_37
Hebrew_B_38
Hebrew_B_39
Hebrew_B_4
Hebrew_B_40
Hebrew_B_41
Hebrew_B_42
Hebrew_B_43
Hebrew_B_44
Hebrew_B_45
Hebrew_B_46
Hebrew_B_47
Hebrew_B_48
Hebrew_B_49
Hebrew_B_5
Hebrew_B_50
Hebrew_B_51
Hebrew_B_52
Hebrew_B_53
Hebrew_B_54
Hebrew_B_55
Hebrew_B_56
Hebrew_B_57
Hebrew_B_58
Hebrew_B_5
Hebrew_B_7
Hebrew_B_8
Hebrew_B_9
MS_Japanese_17
MS_Japanese_100
MS_Japanese_116
MS_Japanese_119
MS_Japanese_125
MS_Japanese_16
MS_Japanese_27
MS_Japanese_28
MS_Japanese_29
MS_Japanese_52
MS_Japanese_58
MS_Japanese_59
MS_Japanese_61
MS_Japanese_63
MS_Japanese_79
MS_Japanese_82
MS_Japanese_85
MS_Japanese_86
MS_Japanese_88
MS_Japanese_94
MS_Japanese_98
MS_Japanese_99
Well.Jav.1
Javanese_10
Well.Jav.11
Javanese_2
Wellcome_Jav_3
Wellcome_Javanese_4
Well.Jav.5
Javanese_6
Wellcome_Jav_7
Well.Jav.8
Wellcome_Javanese_9
Karshuni_1
Karshuni_2
Karshuni_3
Wellcome_Malay_1
Wellcome_Malay_10
Wellcome_Malay_2
Wellcome_Malay_3
Wellcome_Malay_4
Wellcome_Malay_5
Wellcome_Malay_6
Wellcome_Malay_7
Wellcome_Malay_8
Wellcome_Malay_9
Syriac_1
Syriac_2
Tamil_1
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Tamil_11
Tamil_12
Tamil_13
Tamil_14
Tamil_15
Tamil 17
Tamil_18
Tamil_19
Tamil_2
Tamil_20
Tamil_21
Tamil 22
Tamil_23
Tamil_24
Tamil_25
Tamil 26
Tamil 27
Tamil_28
Tamil_29
Tamil_3
Tamil_30
Tamil_32
Tamil_33
Tamil_34
Tamil_35
Tamil_36
Tamil_37
Tamil_38
Tamil_4
Tamil_42
Tamil_5
Tamil 6
Tamil 7
Tamil_8
Tamil_9
MS_Tibetan_133
MS_Tibetan_134

Now we've made the display labels consistent, would it be useful to make these identifiers consistent also? e.g. MS_$language_$number. That's something we could add to the XML checker.

It would have caught a recent error – both MS_Hebrew_B_5.xml and MS_Hebrew_B_6.xml had the same xml:id value, which was causing conflicts.

Note: please don't change these IDs without talking to the platform team first. We'll need to do some work on our side to make sure existing URLs to manuscripts don't change when these IDs change. It's possible, we just need to schedule it.

Add key/ref check to TEI linter

When looking into wellcomecollection/concepts-pipeline#89, I discovered that some Concepts were being erroneously generated because some keyword items had both key and ref, and the transformer was choosing the wrong one.

That problem is fixed with this PR, but there still remains an inconsistency in the use of @ref vs @key. See some discussion here: https://wellcome.slack.com/archives/CS4G8SAG3/p1669723239637559

"Raghavan" not "Ragavan"

In the Indic collection, I see quite a few entries like this:

  <idno type="ragavan">E.11.n</idno>

The name is spelled "Raghavan" not "Ragavan".