Qalamos is a union catalogue for oriental and non-European manuscripts that was established within the framework of a DFG-funded project.

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Duration: 15.09.2020 until 14.09.2023 1.Phase

                 15.09.2023 until 15.09.2026 2.Phase

Funding Organisation: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Participating institutions of Leipzig University:
Research and Development Department (University Computing Centre (URZ))

Project description

Project approach

In the project, the metadata of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts from more than 25 cooperating institutions are taken over or newly recorded and linked to the existing digital data.

Project goals

The goals of the project are the establishment of common indexing standards, the conversion of printed catalogues into electronic form and the consolidation of all existing electronic records.

In addition, a database of relevant persons will be established, which will be compared with the data of the GND. Gradually, the holdings of numerous other institutions will be accessible.

Results

  • Hanstein, Thoralf (gem. mit Brinkmann, S., Klemm, V. u. Kupferschmidt, J.): From Past to Present. Islamic Manuscripts in Leipzig, in: Brinkmann, Stefanie u. Wiesmüller, Beate (Hrsg.): From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and Their Place in Scholarship. Verlag Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008. S. 195-213.
  • Hanstein, Thoralf und Christoph Rauch, „‘Orient-Digital‘: Datenbank Orientalischer Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin geht online“, in: Bibliotheksmagazin 8 (2013) 1, S. 43-48.
  • Rauch, Christoph, „Die Erschließung orientalischer Handschriften an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Historische Entwicklung und aktuelle Perspektiven im nationalen Kontext“, in: Bibliotheksdienst 52 (2018) 6, S. 481-495.

Cooperations

The project was developed in close cooperation with numerous libraries and research institutions. Not only large collections are to be considered. The aim is to also provide associated small and micro collections with the appropriate infrastructure to be able to present their collections in a subject and material-specific context. This also includes libraries whose holdings could not be considered by the KOHD project.

The following holdings research institutions are involved in the union catalogue QALAMOS.

  • Staatsbibliothek Berlin
  • Bayrische Staatsbibliothek
  • Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
  • Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Turfanforschung
  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
  • Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
  • Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
  • Universitätsbibliothek der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
  • Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
  • Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen, KOHD
  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
  • Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
  • Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen Halle/S.
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky Hamburg
  • Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
  • Universität zu Köln, Orientalisches Seminar
  • Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
  • Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Bibliotheca Arabica
  • Universitätsbibliothek der Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam
  • Universitätsbibliothek Rostock
  • Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
  • Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

Project funding

This project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Persons involved

Dr. Stefan Kühne

Dr. Stefan Kühne

Technical project manager

Dittrichring 18-20
04109 Leipzig

 Jens Kupferschmidt

Jens Kupferschmidt

Technical project manager

Augustusplatz 10
04109 Leipzig

Dr. Michael Becker

Dr. Michael Becker

Research Fellow

Dittrichring 18-20
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 33447
Fax: +49 341 97 - 33399