OpenITI MAKHZAN: An Open Annotated Dataset of Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu Print and Manuscript Data
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.465 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 69 - 69
Submitted on: Nov 9, 2025
Accepted on: May 5, 2026
Published on: May 26, 2026
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© 2026 Jonathan Parkes Allen, John Mullan, Lorenz Nigst, Mathew Barber, Taimoor Shahid-Khan, Masoumeh Seydi, Danlu Chen, Yufei Weng, Nikolai Vogler, Jacob Murel, Osama Eshera, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, David Smith, Sarah Bowen Savant, Matthew Thomas Miller, published by Ubiquity Press
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