Simon Samoeil Curator, Near East Collection & AMEEL Project Outreach Director Yale University Library AMEEL: From Theory To Delivery MELA Annual Meeting,
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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)