Catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts (2)
| STG lead(s): |
Paul Caton, Elli Mylonas |
STG began collaborating with the American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts (ACSAM) in 1997, and developed a prototype Union Descriptive Catalogue of several thousand South and West Asian manuscripts now in North American collections. Our first project ran on old software for managing and displaying SGML texts. As part of an STG faculty grant, we converted the ACSAM database to run on the Tomcat framework using JSP, refined the DTD, and took advantage of the Unicode support in modern browsers to display Sanskrit and Arabict text.
ACSAM was founded in 1995 under the auspices of the American Oriental Society to promote the preservation and use of manuscripts of South Asian origin in North American collections.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): |
David Pingree
Department of the History of Mathematics, Brown University
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Kim Plofker
Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University
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| Research domains: |
full-text retrieval |
| STG involvement initiated: |
September 2002 |
| Status: | hosting |
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Funding support: |
STG Faculty Grant |
Record last modified: 24-Oct-2005
