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Executive summary

Around 2014, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center and Harvard Library collaborated on a project wherein Harvard would handle the long-term digital preservation of digital objects in the Center. Correspondingly, MARC records were loaded into our library management system and exposed in HOLLIS. The link that is exposed is the one that goes to the delivery copy in BDRC. The objects in DRS are intended to be dark. The initial project involved around 25,000 titles. New titles have since been added to BDRC but not to Harvard systems. 

Outstanding tasks identified in 2019-

• Overlay local Tibetan records with OCLC, since OCLC has already updated the transliteration. Check
  • Create dark archive NET holdings for previously loaded assets
  • Load MARC for new assets
  • • Also check on 776 linking fields that have Harvard numbers. Replace with OCLC numbers to support catalog clustering. 

  General info

  • BDRC identifiers are stored in 024, subfield 2 with... (Naun/Isabel are requesting new code)
    • Convert Alma portfolios to holdings for delivery link
  • Create dark archive NET holdings for previously loaded assets
  • Load MARC for new assets
  • Load DRS objects for new assets

  History

  • Publicity
    • Harvard Magazine 6.6.14 Harvard Library to Help Preserve Tibetan Literary Heritage
    • Tibetan Literature, Digitized https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/09/tibetan-literature-digitized
    • TBRC announcement https://www.bdrc.io/blog/2014/06/07/tbrc-harvard-partnership-to-support-the-long-term-preservation-of-tibetan-texts/
  • Original project proposal info from 2014 (information may be out of date)
    • Submitted by Richard Lesage, Widener Library. Partnered with Jeff Wallman at TBRC. 
    • The TBRC database is an indispensable tool for Tibetan scholars at Harvard and worldwide. Ensuring the long term preservation and access to their digitized collections is essential for the success of our academic programs.
    • Tibetan studies at Harvard are centered in the Department of South Asian Studies and in the Harvard Divinity School. Harvard Faculty members Leonard van der Kuijp and Janet Gyatso both serve on the Board of Directors of TBRC.
    • This project is to store into Harvard’s Digital Repository Service (DRS) the collections of Tibetan texts (images and searchable text files) of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC). The project includes ingestion into HOLLIS of the associated bibliographic records. There are 17,000 volumes in the TBRC collection, with a total of 10 million pages of scanned texts.
    • The long term preservation and access of this premier resource will be at risk, and if ever it were to disappear this would be a setback for Tibetan and Himalayan studies programs, as well as Buddhist studies at Harvard.
    • The collection started as a scholar-driven collection to digitize the private collection of Gene Smith, Field Director of the Library of Congress Office, in New Delhi, and newly discovered woodblock and manuscript texts. In 2004 the TBRC devised a new cataloging system to make the collection accessible through an online library portal. In 2006, the catalog was enhanced to link to key aspects of Tibetan literary culture - databases of biographies, schools, traditions, monasteries, georeferenced places, etc. There are 17,000 volumes in the collection, with a total of 10 million pages of scanned texts. These are defined by 6800 MARC records for works. Each work has an outline which defines "texts" in each work. There are about 230,000 text entries. Other bibliographic control entries total 300,000. TBRC moved to Harvard Square in 2012 to add capacity to their technical infrastructure, as new collections are constantly being made available, and to develop collaborations for the long term sustainability of their project. 
    • The source materials have been sent to Chengdu (China) according to the will of Gene Smith. Harvard holds some, but not all, of the physical works scanned by TBRC.

  DRS loads

  • DRS copies are dark archives. HOLLIS links go to BDRC platform. Digital projects team has additional information on details of loads into the digital repository. 

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  ITS notes on cataloger new material /wiki/spaces/ITSworkflows/pages/54822949

  Discussion doc on MARC records

  • BDRC identifiers are stored in 024, subfield 2 with... (Naun/Isabel are requesting new code)

  Background on transliteration

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