The complete description of the annotation workflow can be found here, and an updated version here. Steps below only explain the process of selection of a text for annotation.
- Open the priority list. It is organized chronologically and is searcheable (the field with a magnifying glass, saying
Search this file). - Texts with
priorityare the ones that should be annotated. Work in chronological order. Texts up to 1000 AH are of top priority. - While the priority list will be updated regularly, you should check if a text is not being annotated. To do so, go to issues and, in the Field FILTER, search for the URI of the book that you want to annotate (use either complete URI, like
0597IbnJawzi.Muntazam, or Author's URI0597IbnJawzi, or the title of the book likeMuntazam; note: if you search forIbnJawzinothing will be found). - Check results in both
openandclosedissues. If nothing found, you can start working on the selected text. (git fork>git clone>annotate). - Before you proceed, open an issue (issues >
New Issue), using IN PROGRESS template. - After you finish annotating, send a pull request, close your IN PROGRESS ISSUE, and open another issue using Submission report (for Pull Requests) template.
You can create an URGENT issue to assignn specific text to a specific person. Go to ISSUES > New Issue > select URGENT template > Follow the instructions in the template.
| ID | FULL NAME OF A COLLECTION | LINK | SHORT DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alwaraq | al-Warrāq | http://www.alwaraq.net | One of the earliest online collections of digital Arabic books |
| AOCP1 | Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (Phase 1) | https://openiti.org/projects/OpenITI%20AOCP%20Phase%20One.html | Books OCR'ed during the first phase of this project |
| AOCP2 | Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (Phase 2) | https://openiti.org/projects/OpenITI%20AOCP%20Phase%20One.html | Books OCR'ed during the second phase of this project |
| ALCorpus | Arabic and Latin Corpus | https://www.arabic-latin-corpus.philosophie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ | A collection of Arabic-Latin translations of the 10th to 14th centuries AD |
| ArabCommAph | Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms | https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/projects/arabic-commentaries-on-the-hippocratic-aphorisms | Collection of Arabic commentaries on the Aphorisms ascribed to Hippocrates, collected by Peter Pormann's ERC project |
| BibleCorpus | Bible Corpus | https://github.com/christos-c/bible-corpus | A multilingual parallel corpus of Bible translations |
| BJS | Book of Jāmāsp the Sage project | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/forschung/manuskriptkulturen/the-book-of-jamasp-the-sage | Transcriptions of manuscripts of an anonymous 7th/13th C apocalyptic text |
| DARE | Digital Averroes Research Environment | https://dare.uni-koeln.de/ | Digital editions of Ibn Rushd’s works and their translations |
| DSS | Department of Syriac Studies / Dāʾirat al-Dirāsāt al-Suryāniyya | https://dss-syriacpatriarchate.org | Christian texts from the patriarchate of Antakya |
| EScr | Escriptorium | https://escriptorium.openiti.org/ | Books OCRed through eScriptorium; for details of transcription models, see version yml-file |
| GRAR | Graeco-Arabic Studies Corpus | https://graeco-arabic-studies.org | A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies |
| Filaha | The Filāḥa Project | http://www.filaha.org/ | Arabic books on husbandry |
| Hindawi | Hindawi | https://www.hindawi.org/books/ | Books published by the Hindawi foundation |
| JK | al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr | Books digitized by Jordanian publisher Markaz al-Turāṯ | |
| JMIHE | Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1193 | Publication of texts from the Karaite Library in Cairo, now in St Petersburg |
| Kraken | - | - | Books OCRed through Kraken; for details of transcription models, see version yml-file |
| LAL | Library of Arabic Literature | https://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/ | Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature |
| MP | Muslim Philosophy | https://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ | Website on Muslim Philosophy; mostly links to editions but produced some MS Word editions themselves |
| PAL | Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus | https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ | Arabic translations of and commentaries on Ptolemy's works |
| PDL | Persian Digital Library | https://persdigumd.github.io/PDL/ | Persian machine-actionable texts collected by Matthew Thomas Miller's team at UMD |
| SAWS | Sharing Ancient Wisdoms | https://ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/ | Collection of Wisdom texts in Arabic and other languages |
| Shamela | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ | www.shamela.ws | Large digital open-access library, scraped ca. 2014 |
| Sham19Y | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ (2019 additions) | www.shamela.ws | additional scrape in October 2019 |
| Sham30K | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ (30.000 texts) | https://archive.org/details/SHAMELH30-1-20 | Official version + large amount of additional texts |
| ShamAY | (gift) | Official version of al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ + private collection of digitized books | |
| ShamIbadiyya | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ al-Ibāḍiyyaŧ | https://archive.org/details/5_20190723 | Collection of Ibāḍī texts by the Algerian Jamʿiyyaŧ al-Turāṯ, packaged in a Maktaba Shamela instance |
| Shia | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šīʿiyyaŧ | http://shiaonlinelibrary.com | Text collection by the Ayatollah Milani Foundation |
| Tafsir | al-Tafāsīr | www.altafsir.com | Collection of Qur'ān commentaries by the Jordanian Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought |
| Wiki | Wīkī Maṣdar | https://ar.wikisource.org/Texts | Texts from Arabic Wikisource |
| Yatim | (texts for which we do not have text files yet) | ||
| Zaydiyya | al-Maktabaŧ al-Šāmilaŧ al-Zaydiyyaŧ | Collection of Zaydī texts, packaged in a Maktaba Shamela instance |
| IDs | FULL NAME | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|
| LMN | Lorenz Matthias Nigst | AKU-ISMC, CDH, KITAB |
| GVDB | Gowaart Van Den Bossche | Ghent University |
| JT | Jan Thiele | CSIC |
| Khismatulin | Alexei Khismatulin | IOM RAS, St.Petersburg |
| MGR | Maxim Romanov | Universität Hamburg, KITAB |
| SBS | Sarah Bowen Savant | AKU-ISMC, CDH, KITAB |
| AQ | Aslisho Qurboniev | IIS |
| PES | P. Elie Saade | Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon |
| PV | Peter Verkinderen | AKU-ISMC, CDH, KITAB |
| SPL | Simon Peter Loynes | - |
| NA | Najib Ali | Queen Mary University, London |
| MAS | Mohammed Abdisalam Abdillahi | Queen Mary University, London |
| SLB | Syed Lorenzo Bukhari | Queen Mary University, London |
| FAQ | Fatima Ali Aqiil | Queen Mary University, London |
| YR | Yossi Rapoport | Queen Mary University, London |
| HHD | Hussain Hashim Dalal | Queen Mary University, London |
| MA | Mushegh Asatryan | University of Calgary |
| MAB | Mathew Barber | AKU-ISMC, CDH, KITAB |