Automated Cataloging of Arabic Manuscripts: Development and future perspectives

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Department of Libraries, Information and Archives Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

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The purpose of this lecture is to provide the main concepts of automatic Cataloging of Arabic manuscripts, and the related issues and topics, as a contribution to the knowledge composition of researchers or professionals interested in this topic. The lecture analyses the concept of automatic cataloging, presents the problems of cataloging Arabic manuscripts and what the cataloger should look for and seek to obtain the necessary data to catalog them. It then discusses the development of the automatic cataloging of Arabic manuscripts, from traditional automated cataloging to contemporary automated cataloging. The lecture addressed the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules as a content standard, Marc 21 as an encoding and structuring standard as they are the standards characterize the traditional automatic cataloging, then the Resource Description and Access (RDA) as a content standard, and the Bibframe 2.0 as an encoding and structuring standard as they are the standards characterize the contemporary automated cataloging and described the characteristics and advantages of each group of them. Finally, it presented a vision for the future of automatic cataloging of Arabic manuscripts in the light of linked data techniques, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

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