Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO)

The ATMO-2 project (15 August 2018 - 30 June 2022) and the previous ATMO-1 project (1 January 2015 - 15 August 2018) are largely funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. These projects, Prof. It supports the digital scanning, publication and analysis of selected manuscripts from the Jarring Collection collected from Xinjiang by (later Ambassador) Gunnar Jarring and donated to Lund University Library (LUB). All scanned manuscripts are available online from both the ATMO site and the Alvin portal, which hosts the LUB collections, including the Jarring Collection. Some newly scanned manuscripts have been transcribed into the original Perso-Arabic alphabet as well as transcriptions into the extended Latin alphabet; Some transcripts include English glossaries and detailed linguistic annotations (morphemes and word type tagging). To automate grammatical annotation, a neural network approach was adopted, which gives the best results, especially for a low-resource language like Chagatai. The project also uses network analysis to visualize the centrality and connections of disease and treatment concepts in manuscripts to understand the transmission of medical ideas across Eurasia; for example, Prov. Early analyzes of 351 (Medical Manual) revealed the centrality of ingredients such as "sugar", "honey" and "rose water", as well as topics such as "cold" and "sexual stamina". The project is currently applying these learnings to other medical manuscripts and the genealogical scroll (Prov. 561) that is the focus of ATMO-2, depicting a complex family tree (going back to Adam and Eve) that includes religious, mythological, and historical figures. The manuscripts used in these projects are selected from the rich Jarring Collection, originally acquired by Swedish missionaries and linguist Gustav Raquette and later donated to the Lund University Library by Turkologist Gunnar Jarring.