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Magdy Nagi 06 Bibliotheca Alexandrina 1
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GENERAL COUNSEL DirectorCORPORATE SECRETARIAT
ACADEMIC &CULT AFF.
Internal Art Program
AntiquitiesMuseum
Manuscripts Museum
Planetarium &Sc. Museum
ISIS
Nat. Cent. For Manuscripts
Arts Center
EXTERNALRELATIONS
Pub. Relations
Tours
Media
ICT Department
INFO & COMMTECHNOLOGY
FAP
Financial Department
AdministrativeDepartment
Personnel Department
Internal Security Department
EngineeringDepartment
LIBRARY SERVICES
SPECIAL ADVISORS
Library Depart
INTERNAL AUDIT
CULTNAT
Cent. For Writing&Calligraphy
Cent For Res.&Spec Prog.
Cent For Alex & Med Studies.
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ISIS - Mission & Goals
Mission– Initiate, carry-out and promote research and
development of activities and projects related to building a universal knowledge center
– Acting as an incubator for digital and technological projects, promoting and nurturing innovations in accordance with BA goals
Goals– Preserving the heritage for future generations, and
– Universal Access to Human Knowledge
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DAR
Digital Assets Repository
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Goals
Automation of the digitization process Integrating the actual content and metadata of
varieties of object types into one homogeneous repository
Preserving and archiving digital media produced by the Digital Lab or acquired by the Library in digital format
Enhancing the interoperability and seamless access to the Library digital assets
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Standards
Digital objects descriptive metadata– VRA Core Categories
– MARC 21
Metadata presentation– XML
– MARC format
– Dublin Core
Content dissemination– OAI-PMH
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System Architecture
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DAK - Digital Assets Keeper
Acts as a repository for digital material The material is either produced by the Digital Lab
or introduced directly in a digital format Data describing digital files are automatically
extracted from the files Descriptive metadata is either manually assigned to
the digital object by the librarians, or retrieved from external source of metadata.
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DAK - Data Model
CollectionVisualObject
Work
DigitalObject
Owner
Set
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DAK - Metadata
Descriptive Metadata – Common to all types of Works and Visual Objects: Title,
Creator(s), Date(s), Keywords, Description, Dimensions, Location, etc.
– Specific to some types: Book ISBN, Statue Material, etc.
Digital Content Metadata– Image resolution, dimensions, profile, or video duration
Archiving Metadata– Archiving location of a Digital Object file– Physical location where the Visual Object can be found in
the owning institution
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DAK - Metadata
Publishing Metadata– Path of the published Digital Object on the server– Date of publishing, duration of publishing– Category of targeted users e.g. students, researchers, etc.
Access Right Metadata– Copyright statement linked to the Visual Object– Access right level: viewing metadata only - viewing
metadata and thumbnail - viewing metadata and excerpt of the contents - viewing metadata and full access to the contents
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DAF - Digital Assets Factory
Authentication and Authorization Metadata – User identification data– Permissions assigned to a group of users on the Visual
Object or the Collection level Governs the digitization process of the Library
collection at the Digital Lab Goals:
– Provide a database system to keep track of the digitization process
– Keep track of digitized materials, unifying the naming conventions and exhaustively checking the produced folders and files for consistency
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DAF - Digital Assets Factory
Goals (cont’d):– Provide timely reports to various levels of management
describing the workflow and the current status of a certain asset at the Digital Lab
– Apply necessary encodings on the scanned materials to be suitable for electronic publishing
– Manage archiving and retrieval of digitized material
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DAF - Metadata
Digitization Metadata – Scanning date(s)
– Scanning operator(s)
– Processing date(s)
– Processing operator(s)
– OCR font data
– Accuracy achieved by the OCR before and after learning
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Digitization Process – Books
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DAK Publishing Interface http://dar.bibalex.org
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DAK Publishing Interface
Web-based application User: Public user Providing access to the repository content through
search and browse facilities Multilingual full-text search
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DAK Publishing Interface
Functionalities
– Browse the repository contents by Collection, Work type, Visual Object type, Subject, Creator and Title
– Search content by an indexed metadata field
– Multilingual full-text search using both exact and morphological matching
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DAK Publishing Interface
Functionalities (cont’d)
– Display brief record information
– Display full record information with links to digital objects
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DAK Publishing Interface
Functionalities (cont’d)
– Hyperlinked data fields that can invoke searches e.g. by keywords, subjects and creator
– Display records in MARC, DC or XML formats
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DAK Publishing Interface
Functionalities (cont’d)
– Generic digital assets viewer that supports different file formats; PDF, DJVU, Images, Video and Audio
– Different levels of zooming for images in addition to thumbnail view for a set of images
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Integration with the ILS
The integration module is fully configured based on– A record unique identification– Metadata mapping table– Data model mapping scheme– Synchronization schedule
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The Digital Modern
History Of Egypt
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The Digital Library of History of Egypt
Build an integrated digital library of the modern history of Egypt
Collection of specialized libraries Objective
– Scan;
– Catalog;
– Index;
– OCR, and
– Publish the collection in a searchable form to its users.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Collection
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Nasser – Objectives
Digitize and publish the collection of the eminent Arab and Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser
Provide online access to his collection through a web based system mainly intended for research purposes and documentation
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Nasser – Collection
Documents published by the Public Records Office, London, UK (around 1,540 topics)
Documents published by the United State Department of State (16 volumes of 7,965)
Over 1,300 speeches given by the President, in both audio and printed format
Over 51,000 photos and 1,000 portraits of the President
More than 1,000 videos (over 50 hours) A complete archive of the articles published in the
newspapers
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Nasser – Collection
The decrees issued by the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
The daily news of the President Minutes of the Central Committee for Arab
Socialist Union (ASU) More than 143 handwritten documents with 593
papers A complete archive of the special articles
"Bisaraha" by the Egyptian writer and journalist Mr. Mohammed Hassanein Haikal
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Nasser – Collection
Caricature, stamps, coins and plastic arts illustrations
Books written by and about Nasser More than 1,000 national songs 138 Poems The collection was scanned, cataloged, indexed and
subjected to OCR
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Nasser – Collection
The entire collection was presented in a web based interface with full text Arabic and English search
Integration of all the different information sources and media under a single interface and a fully searchable form
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Nasser – Website
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Nasser – Speeches
1,359 speeches Covering years from 1952 to 1970 Audio and Text Speeches and metadata stored in a database Web-based search engine Arabic full text search Managing the contents through a
backend application
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Nasser – Speeches
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Nasser – Photos
51,512 photos 1,124 portraits Covering 6,409 events from 1930 to 1985 Photos and metadata stored in a database Web-based search engine Arabic full text search
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Nasser – Photos
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Nasser – Photos
Backend application
– Managing the contents
– Categorizing photos
– Adding and refining descriptions
– Adding keywords
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Nasser – Videos
1,190 videos (over 50 hours) Processed to be streamed on the Internet Metadata stored in a DB Web-based search engine Arabic full text search
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Nasser – Documents
Egyptian British American
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Nasser – Egyptian Documents
Nasser Days
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Nasser – Egyptian Documents
Nasser Handwritten– More than 143 handwritten documents in 593 papers
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Nasser – Egyptian Documents
Central Committee for Arab Socialist Union – ASU
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Nasser – Egyptian Documents
The decrees issued by Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
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Nasser – British Documents
Around 1,200 documents in more than 53,000 pages
Covering years from 1919 to 1970
Digitized & OCRed Documents & metadata
are stored in a database
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Nasser – British Documents
Web-based Search Engine Full text search Providing access to the contents
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Nasser – British Documents
Backend application
– Managing the contents
– Categorizing documents within a reference
– Adding and refining scopes
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Nasser – American Documents
16 volumes consisting of 7,968 documents Covering years from 1978 to 1951 Digitized & OCRed Full text search on the titles and contents
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Nasser – American Documents
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Nasser – Bisaraha
A complete archive of the special articles "Bisaraha" by the Egyptian writer and journalist Mr. Mohammed Hassanein Haikal
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Nasser – Culture
A number of items representing the effect of Nasser on the culture of the region
– 50 rare stamps
– 125 caricatures
– 34 plastic arts illustrations
– 38 commemorative and circulating coins
– More than 1000 national songs
– 138 Poems
– 3 Books written by and about Nasser
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Nasser – Culture
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Nasser – Culture
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Nasser – General Search
Search all collections
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Nasser – Future Work
Publishing the added a “Happened at same day” feature
The Nasser News Archive with more than 4,000 articles (about 10,507 images) were processed and indexed. The archive is currently being reviewed by Nasser Foundation prior to publishing
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Anwar El-Sadat
Collection
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Sadat – Objectives
Digitizing and documenting Sadat’s epoch, to raise the national awareness and enhance our internal solidarity necessary to confront globalization challenges
Provide the collection in a searchable form for historians, politicians and researchers to analyze and study one of most important transitional periods Egypt has encompassed
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Sadat – Progress
An agreement has already been finalized with President Sadat’s family to digitize the collection
Negotiations are currently taking place with newspaper agencies, museums and others to receive their collections
A team is being formed for the indexing of the pictures collection and another team to sort and evaluate documents and other information resources available
A workflow has been designed and is being tested for digitization of the pictures, documents, audio and video recordings and other information resources, associating metadata with each item, and incorporating the output into DAR
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Sadat – Future Work
Digitizing the pictures available associating them with their metadata
Digitizing documents available in the collection Publishing the digitized collection through browsing
application featuring searching and navigation tools
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Digitizing of the Botroseyya
Collection
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Botroseyya – Mission
In the context of preserving the modern history of Egypt, this project aims at digitizing the documents pertaining to the Egyptian Botros Ghaly family
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Botroseyya – Overview
The family held high and critical positions in the Egyptian government throughout the past 200+ years and thus contributed to formulating a great deal of the Egyptian history
The family has saved a large number of documents (about 15,000) related to its political role since the late 1800’s
The project will attempt to digitize the entire multilingual (Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Persian, Osmanly, Latin and Turkish) collection and provide it in searchable form for historians, politicians and researchers
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Botroseyya – Progress
Agreement finalized with the Botros Ghaly family to digitize the collection
A team was formed and trained for the indexing of the documents, led by the Director of the BA Media Department
A workflow has been implemented and is being used for digitization of the documents, associating metadata with each document
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Botroseyya – Future Work
Digitizing the 15,000 documents and associating them with their metadata
Digitizing pictures available with the collection Digitizing the special collection of Botros Botros
Ghali Publishing the digitized collection through a
browsing application featuring searching and navigation tools
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Digitization of
Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha
Collection
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Mohamed Mahmoud PashaCollection – Mission
This project aims at digitizing the documents pertaining to Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, one of the most famous Egyptian Prime Ministers
The project will attempt to digitize the entire collection of very rich and rare historical documents and materials that have never been published before and provide it in searchable form for historians, politicians and researchers
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Mohamed Mahmoud PashaCollection – Progress
Agreement finalized with Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha’s family to digitize the collection
A team was formed and trained for the indexing of the picture collection, led by the Director of the BA Media Department
A workflow has been designed tested and deployed for the digitization of the pictures, associating metadata with each picture
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Mohamed Mahmoud PashaCollection – Future Work
Digitizing the pictures available in 12 albums and associating them with their metadata
Digitizing documents available in the collection Publishing the digitized collection through
browsing application featuring searching and navigation tools
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Dar Al Hilal
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Dar Al Hilal
Al-Hilal is considered the oldest cultural journal in the Arab world, and the only regular journal that has been issued for more than a hundred years
It had a marked effect on the history of the Arab world in general and the history of Egypt in particular
It played a leading role in modernizing Arab intellectual thinking, and opened new collaborations towards the cultural evolution
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Dar Al Hilal – Objectives
Publish a digital copy of the issues of Al-Hilal magazine following an agreement concluded between the BA Manuscript Center and Dar Al-Hilal (the magazine publisher)
The issues of each decade will be compiled on a CD and provided with necessary browsing and searching tools
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Dar Al Hilal – Progress
ISIS decided to re-digitize the printed version of the collection because of the poor quality of the original one available on a microfilm
The volumes of years 1 to 60 were completely scanned, processed and indexed (about 51,000 pages)
An application was implemented for browsing through the digital copies with searching facilities. The hierarchy for titles and subtitles helps users select the desired issues
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Dar Al Hilal – Future Work
Finalize the digitizing and indexing of the remaining volumes
Compiling the issues of each decade on a CD including necessary browsing and searching tools
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Revival Of
L’Institut D’Egypte
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L’Institut d’Egypte
Between 20 and 22 August 1798, less than two months after landing at Alexandria, the young Napoleon Bonaparte, with some famous scholars and some young enthusiasts, set up the Institut d’Egypte in Cairo
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L’Institut d’Egypte
Its first scholars were in-charge of the research, study and publication of physical, industrial and historical facts about Egypt and were to produce the Description de l’Egypte
A focal point for intellectual pursuit in Egypt, the Institute is the oldest functioning academy of sciences and arts outside Europe
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L’Institut d’Egypte
Monge, Fourier, Berthollet, Caffarelli, Saint–Hilaire and mathematician Louis Costaz–all members of the National Institute–joined René Desgenettes and Antoine–François Andreossy in helping to formulate the purpose, regulations and composition of the new academic society
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L’Institut d’Egypte
The Institute summarized their research in its own journal, La Decade Egyptienne. In addition, it printed a newspaper, the Courrier d’Egypte which offered specific details about the work of Scientific and Artistic Commission and the Institute
The Institut d’Egypte became the focal point for scholarly work in Egypt, and provided both actual space and structure for scholarly discourse
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L’Institut d’Egypte
In 1802, Bonaparte ordered the Imperial Press to begin publishing the visual record
The monumental work was published, in parts, between 1809 and 1822, in 20 volumes, known as the Imperial edition
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Progress and Future Work
BA has suggested 9 projects for its revival, among which is a project of digitizing its entire collection
The effort has started with the digitization of– 10 volumes of Description de l’Egypte
– Other special collections such as:
• Complete works of Voltaire (69 volumes)
• Des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit (16 volumes)
• Geographie Universelle (15 volumes)
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Description De L’Egypte
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Description de l’Egypte
The Description de l’Egypte was the outcome of the collaboration of more than 150 prominent scholars and scientists who accompanied Napoleon, many of who were members of l’Institut d’Egypte.
They systematically examined almost every aspect of contemporary and ancient Egyptian civilization.
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Description de l’Egypte
During the 20-year process, the talents and industry of some 2,000 mechanics, draftsmen, cartographers, typographers and engravers, proved that nothing similar had ever been
attempted before.
It gave an illustrated account of Egypt’s historic, cultural, artistic and religious treasures.
It also described the topography and provided a detailed description of the flora, fauna and mineralogy of the
country.
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Description de l’Egypte
Every aspect of Egyptian life known during that period was precisely and accurately described.
It included over 900 plates (hand-colored copperplate-engravings) and some 3000 illustrations representing an exhaustive record of Egyptian history, architecture, antiquity, geography, natural history, botany and the humanities.
It is found in various editions of varying numbers of volumes: often at least 9 volumes of text, and 11 volumes of plates.
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L’Institut d’Egypte
In 1802, Bonaparte ordered the Imperial Press to begin publishing the visual record. The monumental work was published, in parts, between 1809 and 1822, in 20 volumes, known as the Imperial Edition.
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Description de l’Egypte
The first edition proved so popular that the second edition, also known as the Royal Edition, was published in Paris, by C. Panckoucke from 1821–1829, comprising 26 text volumes and 11 plates volumes.
The impact of this masterpiece was enormous; it directed the attention of the world to the Pharonic and Muslim Civilization in Egypt, giving birth to modern Egyptology.
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As a result, the country’s daily life, natural history and antiquity had a lasting influence
on the arts in Europe and the world.
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Description de l’Egypte
Today, with the efforts of ISIS, the preservation of this valuable collection has been possible.
The complete volumes of plates and text have been fully digitized, integrated on a virtual browser and made accessible to the public through this remarkable and inspiring project.
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Description de l’Egypte
The project is composed of two stages:– The first project stage was completed in October 2004 where
the application was provided on DVD in high resolution with French and English interfaces
• A tool was developed to publish books in the standard extended markup language (XML) format where books may be browsed by a virtual browser or touch screen
• The relation between the text and images were also established and rendered in a searchable form
– In the second stage, the whole collection is to be available in an integrated searchable form on the web
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Description de l’Egypte
The work includes– 11 plates volumes (950 pages)– 9 text volumes (7500 pages)– Index book
The volumes recorded– Antiquities– Modern state– Natural history
They described cities, buildings, temples, monuments, arts, animals, plants, minerals, society, etc.
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Virtual Browser – Home Page
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Virtual Browser – Interface
Ancient look and feel Featuring 3D Interactive animations Iconic representations Harmonized screens Help assistance
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Virtual Browser – Functions
Small movable control panel Transparent to maintain pages view Dynamic loading of large image sizes Supporting different shapes
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Virtual Browser – Functions
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Virtual Browser – Text Screen
Text Volumes
– Nine Text Volumes
• Antiquities Descriptions
• Antiquities Memoirs
• Modern State
• Natural History
– Index book
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Virtual Browser – Text Screen
Comprehensive information about modern Egyptian society as well as Egypt’s physical
environment and natural resources were all documented, making what was then the
largest publication in the world.
Virtually all of Egypt’s patrimony was systematically cataloged, mapped and
meticulously described, from the obelisks to the vast statues on the banks of the Nile, as
well as the country’s flora and fauna.
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Virtual Browser – Plates Screen
Plate Volumes– 11 volumes of plates
– Recorded in three sections + Atlas
• Antiquities
• Modern State
• Natural History
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Virtual Browser – Plates Screen
Hundreds of artists participated to produce more than 3,000 illustrations in a large size (approximately 52 71 cm) format.
The illustrations cover wide-ranging themes such as: – Historical constructions;
– Flora and fauna;
– Landscapes;
– Customs of the inhabitants;
– Industries, commerce, agriculture, and goods for daily use.
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Virtual Browser – Search
A search facility was completed and enhanced to link search results with both text and plate volumes.
It is now possible to find the plates associated with the search item along with its descriptive text in addition to occurrences of the search item within text volumes.
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Future work
The whole collection will be available in an integrated searchable form on the web
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Awards
The project was nominated by the jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award as finalist for the 2006 Challenge (Culture category) as well as the WSIS Challenge Award
A total of 1155 projects registered in the six categories that are available in the 2006 award. Out of those, 151 finalists were selected from 53 countries
The WSIS Challenge Award is a side event within the Stockholm Challenge program
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Awards
The WSIS Challenge Award for African projects attracted 128 registrations, of which 118 were accepted for evaluation. Out of those, 30 finalists were selected
Dr. Magdy Nagi, Head of ICT Sector, was awarded on behalf of BA, a Diploma for Excellence in the use of Information Technology in the Culture Category of the Stockholm Challenge 2006
www.stockholmchallenge.se
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Alexandria Monuments
Scripts Documentation
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Alexandria Monuments
Documentation of Alexandrian Monuments’ Scripts is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to document scripts written on Pharonic, Greek, Coptic and Islamic Monuments of Alexandria
The project will document information about Alexandrian monuments and their related scripts including pictures, transliterations and translations and will provide them in a web-based searchable form for researchers
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Alexandria Monuments – Progress
The BA team has designed and implemented a database for metadata, transliterations, translations and pictures
A workflow has been implemented and is being used for documenting monuments' metadata and scripts on it
The team is currently working on designing the web interface for final publication
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ISIS Website
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