{"id":104213,"date":"2019-09-20T10:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?p=104213"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:59:59","slug":"endangered-manuscript-digitization-project-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/news\/2019\/09\/20\/endangered-manuscript-digitization-project-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Manuscripts Digitization Project Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-104214\" alt=\"Illustrated page from Dal\u0101\u2019il al-Khayr\u0101t: Waymarks of Benefits showing a red and black building\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/El-Hadji_Keramo_Drame_M004-615x501.png\" height=\"244\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/El-Hadji_Keramo_Drame_M004-615x501.png 615w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/El-Hadji_Keramo_Drame_M004.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nBoston University Libraries\u2019 Digital Scholarship Services are honored to announce the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bu.edu\/handle\/2144\/27112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public release of over 18,000 pages of manuscripts from 58 different Mandinka scholars in Casamance, Senegal<\/a><span>, which are now completely digitized and openly available in the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2144\/1896\">African Ajami Library<\/a><span>\u00a0on OpenBU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The project initially focused on preserving endangered Mandinka Ajami manuscripts of the southern Casamance region of Senegal. However, our fieldwork team found on the ground, when the project began, that the manuscripts were richer than initially anticipated. They encompass four major types: (1) Arabic texts; (2) Arabic texts with glosses in Arabic; (3) Arabic texts with glosses in Arabic and local languages (Soninke and Mandinka); and (4) Mandinka Ajami texts. Because all the manuscripts are equally important and document the preoccupations and intellectual traditions of the Mandinka people of Senegambia and beyond, we expanded the project beyond its original focus on Mandinka Ajami texts to include Arabic and bilingual (Arabic and Mandinka or Soninke) manuscripts, which we were granted permission by manuscript owners to digitize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the project on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/disc\/2019\/09\/20\/now-in-openbu-mandinka-ajami-arabic-manuscripts-from-casamance-senegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Scholarship Services website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Libraries\u2019 Digital Scholarship Services are honored to announce the\u00a0public release of over 18,000 pages of manuscripts from 58 different Mandinka scholars in Casamance, Senegal, which are now completely digitized and openly available in the\u00a0African Ajami Library\u00a0on OpenBU. The project initially focused on preserving endangered Mandinka Ajami manuscripts of the southern Casamance region of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14445],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104221,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104213\/revisions\/104221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}