META data

meta_OpenArabic_complete : the latest version of metadata for OpenArabic

Number of texts: 7,052; the number of unique: 4,278

Fields: CSV STRUCTURE:

ID: JK000001 AUTHOR: 0505Ghazali DATE: 0505 TITLE: IhyaCulumDin #WORDS: 992049 URI: 0505Ghazali.IhyaCulumDin.JK000001-ara1 STATUS: PRI URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenArabic/0600AH/master/data/0505Ghazali/0505Ghazali.IhyaCulumDin/0505Ghazali.IhyaCulumDin.JK000001-ara1

uris - metadata for assigning URIs

Temporary TAGs

1. MODERN : a modern book that may be worth including into the corpus
2. MAJALLA : a run of a journal; not sure how to assign a URI to journals yet
3. EXCLUDE : no need to include the text (modern) into the corpus, at least at the moment
4. DIFFICULT: a difficult case
5. NOTCLEAR: not clear what from metadata (add a date, if available, for reference: 0381NOTCLEAR)
6. PERSIAN: the book is in Persian (mostly, modern Shi`i law)

General

1. Use EditPadPro with OpenArabic mARkdown installed
2. Open file __Entire_Corpus_Working.txt > text in the file should get automatically highlighted
3. Text files have already been grouped into the same works, but there are mistakes here and there: 1) wrong books grouped together; 2) not all text files that have the text of the same book were grouped together.
4. A new record starts with ######## BEGofRECORD ###########; the entire bibliography can be folded (right click > Fold all)
5. The line that immediately follows is the line where the URI is either already provided or should be added
   1. If the URI already exists, nothing needs to be done; in this case the line starts with #FOLDER#===# and is followed immediately by the URI of a book (highlighted with orange) and a selection of thematic tags (highlighted with green), for example: #FOLDER#===# 0748Dhahabi.TarikhIslam (TAGS: BIO, CENT0800, CHR, COL, DHB, PPE, _TABAQAT, _TARAJIM, _TARIKH)
   2. When the URI does not exist, the line starts with one of the following three options (NB: options #2 and #3 can be ignored for now, URIs for books of #1 only should be provided):
      1. #BookURI##===# (no highlighting) — the URI for this book may be added
      2. #BookURI?##===# (highlighted with black) — there is no need to add the URI for this book for now
      3. #BookURI-##===# (highlighted with red) — there is no need to add the URI for this book for now

Adding URIs

1. Make sure that the URI of an author does not exist, before creating one; the easiest way to do that is to search for the year of death in Annotation to OpenArabic https://github.com/OpenArabic/Annotation

2. If it exists, use the existing one; if not, you need to create one

3. Creating Author URI:

   1. Author URI is made of two elements: (1) YEAR of DEATH (always (!) 4 digits, add zeros in the beginning for dates before 1000 AH); (2) ideally, SHUHRA of the author, for example: 0748Dhahabi.
   2. Issues with the date of death:
      1. If only the century is known, use the last year of that century, thus the 4th century hijri > 0400
      2. If pre-hijri (for example, 56 before hijra), use 0001
      3. If current time, use 1450
   3. Issues with shuhra: when it is difficult to identify the SHUHRA, use the following elements (as they seem to be present in the majority of records)
      1. In this order of priority: Laqab, Kunya, Nasab (Ibn Fulan, where Fulan is the name of the father).
      2. In this order of priority: Nisba geographical; Nisba religious; Nisba tribal
      3. Examples: 0430AbuNucaymIsbahani, 0463KhatibBaghdadi, 0900AbuCabdAllahHimyari.

4. Creating Book URI

   1. Add the title to the Author URI — separated with a period.
   2. Drop the word kitāb from the title
   3. Abbreviate the title to the shortest meaningful string, for example: al-Kāmil fī-l-taʾrīḫ becomes Kamil
   4. Use camelCase when connecting words, for example: Taʾrīḫ al-islām becomes TarikhIslam
   5. Drop hamzas, for example: Suʾāl, becomes Sual
   6. ʿAyns are transliterated with c and capitalized when necessary, for example: ʿAlī becomes Cali; iʿtidāl becomes Ictidal
   7. In everything else: Library of Congress transliteration system.
   8. Examples: 0430AbuNucaymIsbahani.HilyaAwliya, 0463KhatibBaghdadi.TarikhBaghdad, 0900AbuCabdAllahHimyari.RawdMictar

5. Adding the URI to the record

   1. Replace #BookURI##===# with #FOLDER#===#
   2. Insert the URI between #FOLDER#===# and (TAGS: ...)
   3. if everything done correctly, the line will get highligted with orange.