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Contains a description of any significant additions found
within a manuscript, such as marginalia or other
annotations.
Groups elements describing the full history of a manuscript
or manuscript part.
Contains any descriptive or other information concerning
the origin of a manuscript or manuscript part.
Contains any descriptive or other information concerning
the process by which a ms or ms part entered the holding
institution.
Groups additional information relating to the modern
bibliography for a manuscript, its current curatorial status,
and and other associated materials.
Contains information about the present custody and
availability of the manuscript, and also about the record
description itself.
Contains information about any digital or photographic
representations of the manuscript being described which
may exist in the holding institution or elsewhere.
Contains details of any significant additional material
which may be closely associated with the manuscript being
described, such as non-contemporaneous documents or
fragments bound in with the manuscript at some earlier
historical period.
6. Conclusion
Catalogue is a tool or pointer for archiving and providing access to old treasures of
knowledge. Systematic arrangement, uniform and mutual consistent cataloguing of
manuscripts is needed. In the present information technological era the information present
in the manuscripts should be digitized, preserved and provide access to these old treasures
of knowledge, by developing common suitable metadata standard and make them useful
by providing efficient assessing points to them and opens the communication channels is
needed. Thus this study suggests that Text Encoding Initiative and Digital Scriptorium
standards data elements can be adopted for cataloguing of Indian manuscripts. Further
study is recommended.
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