Winners of Islamic Studies funding for digitisation

"JISC has announced the two winners of its call for Islamic Studies Catalogue and Manuscript Digitisation, who are the Wellcome Library and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The Wellcome Library will be digitising and cataloguing 500 Arabic-language manuscripts from their collection. They will be doing with assistance with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Egypt. This project will also be creating software for managing descriptive metadata for non-European manuscripts - a much-needed tool for those working in this field. The second project is a joint venture between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and will be digitising around 10,000 records from their card catalogues of Islamic Studies manuscripts and making them available via a searchable interface. These projects will be starting in September 2009, and due to finish in February 2011"