Orient DFG project "Qalamos" - Development of a union catalogue for oriental manuscripts (2023-2026) Project plan Since 2022, Qalamos has provided scholars and the interested public with an infrastruc

Orient DFG-Project „Orient-Digital“ (2020-2023) Initially conceived as a three-year project, "Orient-Digital“ was a DFG-funded project aimed at establishing a union catalogue and a portal for Oriental

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Orient Digitization Projects On this page we inform you about completed and ongoing digitisation projects. Since 2010, Oriental manuscripts have been continuously digitised at the digitisation centre

Orient Skriptorium Scriptorium - "Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts": Since 2012, the Oriental Department has regularly organized workshops and summer schools on various Oriental manuscri

Orient Archive International conference 28th June – 1st July 2022 From 28 June to 1 July 2022 the Berlin State Library is hosting a three-day-conference exploring the interplay between collection hist

Orient Oriental Department Conferences 2022 Collection History Between the Academic Thirst for Knowledge, Antique Trade Across the Globe, and Colonial Claims to Power Internationale Konferenz in der S

Orient Catalogues of Manuscripts Electronic catalogues The central catalogue of oriental manuscripts is the Qalamos database . In the context of indexing, digitization and retroconversion projects, th

Orient Notes on transliteration The languages catalogued in the Oriental Department are mostly written in scripts that deviate from the Latin alphabet. In librarianship, tables were therefore develope

Orient Manuscripts from Southeast Asia The collection of manuscripts from Southeast Asia is characterized by the multitude of languages that can be found in it. Carl Schoemann's important collection a