OttomanAuthorsRevisited:Name Authority Recordsat the BnF
Abstract
Despite the proposals developed by Birnbaum in 1968, rules and practices to establish authority records for Ottoman authors have gaps and / or are still not completely implemented. The diversity of ways in which reference is made to these authors, the lack of patronyms in the sense of a hereditary family name, the range ofgiven names among Ottoman Muslims leading to many homonyms, all add to confusionof people and their works. If we add to this the question of changing alphabets,of calendars and that of “nationality” as we understand it today, the challenges only increase.Theonline cataloguing of manuscripts in 2010 triggered the Turkish office of theFrench National Library Bibliotheque nationale de France to come up, once again, with some recommendations on the subject. If we expect thereby to achievesome resolutions via these recommendations, we hope to do so after having sparked a debate among the community of colleagues in Turkey and elsewhere. The aim being to establish a reliable and coherent Ottoman and Turkish name authority file
Keywords
Ottoman names,name authority files,Bibliotheque Nationale de France
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