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 <http://archive.org>. But
there's a tremendous amount more than what I've noted.
The metadata (=catalogue data) at archive.org <http://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 <http://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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