Information support of the topic “Turkic peoples of Siberia”: database and bibliographic index

Abstract

The article presents the bibliographic database “Türks of Siberia (book editions)”, on which base an eponymous index was formed. The resources were generated within the framework of the Otrar electronic library project curated by the YERTAD Association of History and Culture of the Republic of Turkey. While creating the database and index, the task was to show publications devoted to particular Turkic peoples and their subjects. Thus, the DB documents were indexed by two rubricators: topical and subject, where the subject headings were the Turkic people names including all variants of peoples’ names reflected in publications (above 50 nations). Combining bibliographic resources on Siberian Türks in the form of a database and a printed bibliographic index allows the consumer to view in full the information on the topic accessible to different categories of users. The article analyzes a documentary flow on linguistics of DB “Türks of Siberia (book editions)” with the objectives to characterize publications (dictionaries, monographs, textbooks) on studying the linguistic culture of Siberian Turkic peoples (Yakuts, Tuvans, Altaians, Khakasses, Shors, Siberian Tatars, Dolgans, Kumanlins, Telets, Chelkans, Tofalars of the Chulyms). The analysis showed rather huge volume of book editions on linguistics (over 36% of the total number of publications). Scientific institutes of the relevant profile and universities investigate language and prepare publications on linguistics. The authors state that studying languages of almost all Siberian Turkic peoples is provided with appropriate book editions.