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Bibliothèques d’Orient

​Summary: Bibliothèques d’Orient presents the interactions between Eastern Mediterranean countries and France over several centuries, with a particular focus on the period 1798-1945. From the moment it opens, this collaborative digital library bring together about 7,000 documents accompanied by almost 100 scientific contextualisation. These items can be accessed through 7… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership

​Summary: The project focus is primarily on digitization of the India Office Records in the archives of the British Library that relate to Gulf History with extended metadata and contextual articles on these topics. Additional elements include Manuscripts, Maps and Music related to the region.   Type… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

France-Poland Digital Library

​Summary: The France-Poland Digital Library offers the public a rare collection of documents on Franco-Polish relations. It brings together so far 1000 documents illustrating the richness and the constancy of the links which unite France and the Poland between the Renaissance and the Second World War. This project is part of… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

Library and Archives Canada’s Indigenous Documentary Heritage Initiatives

​Summary: In 2017, the Government of Canada announced funding for Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to support the digitization of Indigenous documentary heritage. This has included both work to increase online access to  the relevant holdings of Library and Archives Canada, and support and expertise to Indigenous communities in… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

Tulipana

​Summary: The purpose of the Tulipana program is to secure the protection of cultural heritage of Dutch emigrants and expats in Brazil and also to make this material digitally accessible. Together with volunteers we worked on inventorising, conservation, digital access and making sources available. The project included… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

Digitization of Polish Jewish Historical Newspapers

​Summary: The project focused on the digitisation of selected microfilms of Polish Jewish newspapers from the collections of National Library of Poland and make the materials avialiable via National Library of Israel website.  Type of Project: The documents come from a single collection (at the Polish National… Read More

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  • 25 July 2019

Digitization Project of Uralic Languages

​Summary: The National Library of Finland executed a digitization project of Uralic languages (minority languages in Russian Federation) beween the years 2012 and 2017. All in all, more than 32 000  documents were published online during the project, released as part of the Fennu-Urgica collection. This includes more than… Read More

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  • 24 July 2019

Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts

​Summary: “Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts” is a ground-breaking initiative to enable global centralized digital access to all existing Hebrew manuscripts. The site is the largest of its kind, one of the largest digital collections of manuscripts in existence. Images are preserved long-term using state-of-the-art technology, and the catalogue… Read More

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  • 24 July 2019

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

​Summary: The core aim of the six-year Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project is to provide free online access to Hebrew manuscripts from the British Library’s collection, through manuscript conservation and imaging, catalogue creation and online presentation. The outputs are detailed and searchable catalogue records and fully digitised manuscripts. This project… Read More

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  • 24 July 2019

Digital Images Database of the National Central Library, Taiwan, China

​Summary: Since 2001, The NCL has initiated the digitization project aiming at preserving rare books and providing public access. The “Digital Image Database” includes two parts: one is the scanned images of NCL’s rare books collection; the other is the NCL’s international collaborations of the digitalization project of Chinese… Read More

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  • 24 July 2019