WHILST cataloguing the post-Mingana accessions of Arabic manuscripts to the John Rylands University Library, there came to my attention a slim sheaf of correspondence inside the front covers of Rylands Arabic MS. 834. * The manuscript is itself of considerable interest. It comprises an Arabic-Italian dictionary and classified vocabulary, and may have been copied around or before the middle of t...

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Abstract. The discipline of situational method engineering (SME) promotes the idea of retrieving, adapting, and tailoring fragments, rather than complete methodologies, to specific situations. In order to succeed in creating good methodologies that best suit given situations, fragment representation and cataloguing are very important activities. We introduce a visual SME approach, whose roots a...