simon samoeil curator, near east collection & ameel project outreach director yale university...
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- Simon Samoeil Curator, Near East Collection & AMEEL Project Outreach Director Yale University Library AMEEL: From Theory To Delivery MELA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2009
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- Full Text searching Browsing or Searching views of the journals now in the repository 215,000 + pages of full text in Arabic, English, French, German, and other languages http://sesame.library.yale.edu:8080/fedoragsearch/ameeltreeresult
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- Full text access restricted to Yale Campus users due to copyright permission (Iraqi Journals only)
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- Browse the list of available journals (Y : Access restricted to Yale Campus users due to copyright)
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- Search for text, here Results list will display the journals, issues, and page numbers.
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- Clicking on the + and icons will open the results list to show details.
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- Links from the results will take the patron to the page having the searched text.
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- Navigate and Resize Search again Go to a specific page Review metadata Open and view MARC, And Print
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- Or, open the page turner and read through the journal.
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- Preserve & Retain Full Color, etc. of The Item
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- Integrating resources In development: Permitting cross-collection searches with integrated digital resources, e.g. abstracts from Brills Encyclopedia of Islam and Halles MENALib http://ameeldev.library.yale.edu:8080/fedoragsearch/ameeltreeresult
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- The development site: Showing the progress being made to integrate other digital resources Here we have added Brills Encyclopedia of Islam, Halles MENALib database, and Yales metadata directory of Internet resources
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- Searching now looks at all integrated resources. Here Yales metadata directory shows results for a test of Arabic This helps new students find resources related to the Middle East.
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- Clicking on the results list takes the patron to the Internet resource.
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- AMEELs New One-Year Project Funded by NEH / JISC
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- Yale Library & School of Oriental & African Studies Project 16 Manuscripts Catalogs, 6 Dictionaries & 16 Manuscripts Yale part: 9 Manuscripts Catalogs & 3 Dictionaries: 16,800 pages 10 Manuscripts: 5,478 leaves Total: 22,278 pages Challenges: a. The presence of vowels in the text (Lanes Arabic English Lexicon) b. Multi Language text ex. Arabic & Latin c. Different transliteration systems d. Metadata e. Names & Subjects Authorities
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- AMEELs New Four-Year Project Funded by NEH Syrian & Palestinian Gazettes Project, from 1919 to 1948 1. Palestinian Gazette: 40 reels and 5 supplemental vols.: 40,000 pages (rough estimate) 2. Syrian Gazette: 75 vols., 50,000 pages approximately Challenges: a. Paper conditions b. Creation of Metadata. c. OCR from Microfilm Ground total: around 110, 000 to 120,000 pages (Preliminarily count, Yale part only)