- “The KITAB corpus is the Arabic subcorpus of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)…a multi-institutional effort to create not only a scientifically curated and open corpus of Islamicate (mainly Arabic and Persian) texts compliant with international data standards, accompanied by scholarly metadata and representative of the diversity of historic traditions but also a full digital text production pipeline. To date, the KITAB corpus comprises more than 10,200 text files plus their corresponding metadata files.”