UCLA library holds one of the largest collections of Islamic manuscripts (roughly 10,000 items) covering multiple languages including Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu and spanning nearly 9 centuries (12th to 20th). Currently, UCLA Library Special Collections is in the process of a multi-year effort to create digital records for its Islamic Manuscript holdings.

The UCLA Humanities Technology team is engaged in a project to visualize the cataloged manuscripts through Tableau. The goal of this project is to represent a birds-eye view of the Islamic manuscript holdings for interested researchers. The visualization represents multiple data points captured during the Library cataloging process, providing researchers with easy access to dissect the data and draw useful insights into UCLA's Islamic manuscript holdings."

In this presentation, we will discuss the challenges that were faced in data cleaning, wrangling and visualization that are specific to manuscript collections, especially one that is primarily in non-Latin script and spans to the pre-modern period.

This workshop will be offered via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop.

Speaker: Saad Shaukat

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