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The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI)International WorkshopStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, 9-10 May 2012The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative ( &#60;http://ymdi.uoregon.edu/&#62; http://ymdi.uoregon.edu) is a collective ofscholars and librarians dedicated to preserving the Arabic manuscripts in the private libraries of Yemen. In 2010, Princeton University Library and Freie Universität Berlin (Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World) received a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/National Endowment for the Humanities (DFG/NEH) Enriching Digital Collections Grant to work with The ImamZayd ben Ali Cultural Foundation to digitize, catalog, and make freely available the codices in three private libraries in Sanaa, Yemen and Yemeni manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Princeton University Library ( &#60;http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0079&#62; http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0079).As part of this NEH/DFG grant and with additional funding of the EuropeanResearch Council (Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval Worldof Islam), Freie Universität Berlin and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin are hostingan international workshop from May 9-10, 2012. With participation by scholarsof Arabic and Islam and digital humanities librarians from Europe, the UnitedStates, and Yemen, this workshop is an opportunity for scholars who use Arabicmanuscripts in their research and librarians dedicated to virtual manuscriptconservation and the digital humanities to meet and discuss areas of sharedinterest. Panel topics at the workshop include papers on the current state ofthe private manuscript libraries of Yemen; Zaydi thought as reflected in Yemenimanuscripts; the digital preservation and cataloging of Arabic manuscripts; andthe role of manuscripts in the digital humanities.ProgramMay 9th9:00-10:20      Opening Session [English]Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin:“Opening Welcome”Sabine Schmidtke: “Yemeni Manuscripts in European libraries”Christoph Rauch: “Yemeni Manuscripts in Berlin”David Hollenberg: “YMDI: Progress and Prospects”David Magier: “YMDI at Princeton”10:30-11:30     Manuscripts in the digital humanities [English]David Magier (chair)Stephanie Wood: “YMDI Distance Research Environment”Cliff Wulfman: “The Road to the Web: Digitizing Manuscripts from Yemen”Gregory Crane: [tba]12:00-13:30    Lunch13:45-15:45    Zaydī Studies I [English]Gregor Schwarb (chair)Jan Thiele: “Zaydī Scholarship as reflected in Manuscript Glosses”Aron Zysow: “Kalām works by Ibn al-Murtaḍā”Eirik Hovden: “Zaydi endowment fiqh between doctrines and legal practice”Christoph Rauch: “Zaydi scholarship in 16th century Yemen: Wadi al-Sirr as anexample”16:00-18:00     Zaydī Studies II [English/French]Bernard Haykel (chair and discussant)Hassan Ansari: “al-Kaššāf d’al-Zamaḫšarī et les Zaydites duYémen”Sabine Schmidtke: “The doctrinal thought of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī(d. 667/1268)”Brinkley Messick: “Readings in a System of Texts”Gregor Schwarb: “Some observations on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Najrī’s K. Mirqātal-anẓār”May 10th9:00-11:00      The Private Libraries of Manuscripts in Yemen [Arabic]Bernard Haykel (chair)Ahmed Ishaq: “IZBACF and the YMDI Project – Obstacles and Challenges”ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbbās al-Wajīh: “Turāth al-Yaman al-makhṭūṭbayna l-ihmāl wa-muḥāwalāt al-inqādh”Hassan Ansari: “Al-Maktabāt al-khāṣṣa fī l-Yaman wa-ahammiyyatuhā fīl-dirāsāt al-muʿtaziliyya muqāranatan bi-dawr al-maktabāt al-ʿāmma fīṢanʿāʾ”11:15-12:30     Arabic Manuscript Digitization and Cataloging projects[English]David Hollenberg (chair)Cécile Bonmariage: “Beyond texts: Digital collections, codicology andpaleography (or: the missing links)”Anne Regourd: “Preserving the material book, virtually:  the importance of paper in digitizing the private libraries of Zabīd”Joyce Bell: “Beyond cataloging: data conversion and structures for presentinga digitized manuscript”Thoralf Hanstein: “Berlin activities in the field of cataloguing anddigitization”12:30-13:30     Lunch13:45-15:45      Breakout Group Discussions: “Yemeni manuscripts &#38; thedigital humanities: Prospects for a new manuscript age”16:00-17:30     Tour of the manuscript collection of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin(Christoph Rauch)