The project and its needs
MÖKKEM is the online home of work on manuscripts and Persian grammar. To locate the copies of a work or author, researchers had to search dozens of catalogues one by one and compare records in different formats by hand.
Live federated search across catalogues
Queries are sent live from the user's own browser to the selected catalogues through a small Chrome extension. Adapters for Primo, Blacklight, Solr, IIIF, MARCXML, SRU, Alma and Koha cover 123 catalogues in Türkiye, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
- Results collected into more than 21 common columns
- Library names normalised to a standard abbreviation list of over 8,900 records
- "Possibly the same work" hints (records are never merged)
- Export to Excel, CSV, TSV and JSON
Arabic- and Latin-script search
Manuscript titles appear in many forms in the literature. The search matches Arabic- and Latin-script spelling variants with a consonant-skeleton key; a free-text description such as "Hâfız's divan, before 1000 AH, Persian" is parsed by rules without any outside service, and Hijri and Gregorian date ranges are converted.
- Search by role, such as commentator, translator or copyist
- Filters for copying place and date
Persian grammar application
Used in Persian language and literature courses at Istanbul University, the application is available in Turkish and English and covers phonology, morphology and discourse in 14 tabs.
- Every mood, tense and person form of a verb on one screen
- From an inflected form to its dictionary entry
- Sentence analysis and constituent-marking exercises
- Pronunciation with the browser's Persian voice
- Toggle Arabic script, transliteration and meaning
Collections portal and data entry
- Search across all fields, filters from table cells and value counts per column
- Confirmed deletes and CSRF-protected administration
- Key-protected API for importing Google Form data
- Cached public JSON API
Privacy and citation
The visit counter never stores IP addresses; robots.txt keeps AI training crawlers out; a citation line with author, URL and access date is generated automatically at the foot of every page.
What this means for your project
For research teams building catalogue, collection, person or source databases, we deliver multi-source search, spelling-variant matching and export in standard formats.