Thinking beyond the manuscripts digitisation in the Arab world
The digitisation of archival and manuscript collections has become an endorsed trend equally in the international and national levels. However, looking at the state of digitisation in the Middle East in the last ten years, it will appear that it has not received the same level of attention. This has...
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| প্রকাশিত: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ema, |
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| বিন্যাস: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| ভাষা: | Anglais |
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2020
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | The digitisation of archival and manuscript collections has become an endorsed trend equally in the international and national levels. However, looking at the state of digitisation in the Middle East in the last ten years, it will appear that it has not received the same level of attention. This has, therefore affected the accessibility of these heritage materials, which have been subject to destruction or loss because of various reasons. This paper, therefore, aims to answer fundamental questions such as why the digitisation of manuscripts collections in the Arab world is not progressing as it should be? And what are the outcomes of the projects that have already been completed? |
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