Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina1

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina2 GENERAL COUNSEL Director CORPORATE SECRETARIAT ACADEMIC & CULT AFF. Internal Art Program Antiquities Museum Manuscripts Museum Planetarium & Sc. Museum ISIS Nat. Cent. For Manuscripts Arts Center EXTERNAL RELATIONS Pub. Relations Tours Media ICT Department INFO & COMM TECHNOLOGY FAP Financial Department Administrative Department Personnel Department Internal Security Department Engineering Department LIBRARY SERVICES SPECIAL ADVISORS Library Depart INTERNAL AUDIT CULTNAT Cent. For Writing &Calligraphy Cent For Res. &Spec Prog. Cent For Alex & Med Studies.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina3 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina4 DAR Digital Assets Repository

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina5 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina6 Standards  Digital objects descriptive metadata –VRA Core Categories – MARC 21  Metadata presentation –XML –MARC format –Dublin Core  Content dissemination –OAI-PMH

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina7 System Architecture

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina8 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina9 DAK - Data Model Collection Visual Object Work Digital Object Owner Set

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina10 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina11 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina12 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina13 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina14 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina15 Digitization Process – Books

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina16 DAK Publishing Interface 

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina17 DAK Publishing Interface  Web-based application  User: Public user  Providing access to the repository content through search and browse facilities  Multilingual full-text search

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina18 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina19 DAK Publishing Interface  Functionalities (cont’d) –Display brief record information –Display full record information with links to digital objects

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina20 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina21 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina22 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina23 The Digital Modern History Of Egypt

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina24 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina25 Gamal Abdel Nasser Collection

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina26 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina27 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina28 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina29 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina30 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina31 Nasser – Website

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina32 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina33 Nasser – Speeches

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina34 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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Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina36 Nasser – Photos  Backend application –Managing the contents –Categorizing photos –Adding and refining descriptions –Adding keywords

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina37 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina38 Nasser – Documents  Egyptian  British  American

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina39 Nasser – Egyptian Documents  Nasser Days

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina40 Nasser – Egyptian Documents  Nasser Handwritten –More than 143 handwritten documents in 593 papers

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina41 Nasser – Egyptian Documents  Central Committee for Arab Socialist Union – ASU

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina42 Nasser – Egyptian Documents  The decrees issued by Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina43 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina44 Nasser – British Documents  Web-based Search Engine  Full text search  Providing access to the contents

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina45 Nasser – British Documents  Backend application –Managing the contents –Categorizing documents within a reference –Adding and refining scopes

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina46 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina47 Nasser – American Documents

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina48 Nasser – Bisaraha  A complete archive of the special articles "Bisaraha" by the Egyptian writer and journalist Mr. Mohammed Hassanein Haikal

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina49 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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Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina52 Nasser – General Search  Search all collections

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina53 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina54 Anwar El-Sadat Collection

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina55 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina56 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina57 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina58 Digitizing of the Botroseyya Collection

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina59 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina60 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina61 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina62 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina63 Digitization of Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha Collection

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina64 Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha Collection – 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina65 Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha Collection – 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina66 Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha Collection – 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina67 Dar Al Hilal

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina68 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina69 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina70 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina71 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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Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina73 Revival Of L’Institut D’Egypte

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina74 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina75 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina76 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina77 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina78 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina79 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)

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina80 Description De L’Egypte

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina81 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina82 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina83 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina84 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina85 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina86 As a result, the country’s daily life, natural history and antiquity had a lasting influence on the arts in Europe and the world.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina87 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina88 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina89 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina90 Virtual Browser – Home Page

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina91 Virtual Browser – Interface  Ancient look and feel  Featuring 3D  Interactive animations  Iconic representations  Harmonized screens  Help assistance

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina92 Virtual Browser – Functions  Small movable control panel  Transparent to maintain pages view  Dynamic loading of large image sizes  Supporting different shapes

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina93 Virtual Browser – Functions

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina94 Virtual Browser – Text Screen  Text Volumes –Nine Text Volumes Antiquities Descriptions Antiquities Memoirs Modern State Natural History –Index book

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina95 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina96 Virtual Browser – Plates Screen  Plate Volumes –11 volumes of plates – Recorded in three sections + Atlas Antiquities Modern State Natural History

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina97 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.

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina98 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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Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina100 Future work  The whole collection will be available in an integrated searchable form on the web

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina101 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina102 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina103 Alexandria Monuments Scripts Documentation

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina104 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina105 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

Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina106 ISIS Website

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Magdy Nagi 06Bibliotheca Alexandrina108 Questions