Contributor(s): THL Staff.
Cataloging the texts of a collection involves the following steps. These assume that one has determined a sigla for the edition by consulting a THL technologist. The steps then proceed as follows:
For some cataloging resources, see our Reference lists for Cataloging.
The short and medium forms and the conversion routines can be found in the Short & Medium Comprehensive Conversion Packet. This packet also contains an entry form particularly designed for the Peking Kangyur and Tengyur entry project. Each entry form has a corresponding XML template used by the converter. These use of these and the conversion process will be described in the corresponding section below. The following list represents the combined list of fields available in those three entry forms:
The full explanation of the entry form can be found in our Literature Collections Documentation
One of the most difficult aspects of cataloging a collection is determining what is a text, where it begins and ends, and what is a section. Though one might think it would be obvious, the boundaries are not always so clear. Our guidelines may be found in another section of the literature documentation. It is the section on Cataloging the Structure of a Text. One of our basic principles is in determining text boundaries is that generally the title line marks the beginning and the rdzogs so marks the end of a text.