JainPedia
Primary tabs
Grant Holder:
JainPedia will be a free world-leading resource on the web. It offers translations and transcriptions of selected texts and a wealth of contextual information about the Jain religion and its host society in India.
The JainPedia team is leading the digitisation of approximately 4,000 pages of the thousands of jain manuscripts and Jain objects in the United Kingdom. The involvement of eminent academics and volunteers from the Jain community in the project highlights how the expertise and enthusiasm of different groups can work together to produce a valuable resource for all.
The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is the technical research partner on this project, led by the London-based Institute of Jainology. Each item is being digitised to international digital curation standards and stored in an image database. The website is built around the Drupal content management system and is designed to display the images in a copyright-protected environment that allows viewers to appreciate their beauty, craftsmanship and religious significance.
XHTML pages generated by web content management system
| Project start date: 2008-06 | Project end date: 2012-06 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Storyboarding | Practice-led research |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Graphical rendering | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Risk management | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Sound compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Textual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Topic Detection and Tracking | Data analysis |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
Funding sources:
Wellcome Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund, Institute pf Jainology
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Lucene, Apache, Drupal, VMware ESX, Djatoka, Solr
Source material used:
ca. 4000 newly digitized images from four partner institutions (V&A, BL, Wellcome Library, Bodleian Library).
Catalogue of Jain Manuscripts in the British Library
(at least) 11 monographs, numerous articles
Entire back issue of print magazine (Jain Spirit)
Digital resource created:
Highly interactive web-based encyclopaedia featuring ca. 300 newly researched and written illustrated encyclopaedia articles of approximately 10,000 words length each
Online magazine with News and Events portal
Data Formats created:
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), MySQL, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), JPEG 2000, JPEG
Metadata standards employed:
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
|---|
| King's College London |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
|---|
| British Library |
| Bodleian Library |
| Institute of Jainology |
| V&A |
| Wellcome Institute Library |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Nalini Balbir, Paul Vetch, Jasmine Kelly |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) of record | Paul Vetch |
| Title | JainPedia |
| Record created | 2009-12-02 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-25 16:52 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3130 |
| Citation of record | Paul Vetch: JainPedia. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3130> created: 2009-12-02, last updated 2010-01-25 16:52 |