The Heritage Library Cultural Development Center Qatar Foundation

The Heritage Library Cultural Development Center Qatar Foundation Since 1979

Historical overview 1979 1989 H. E. Shaikh Dr. Hassan Bin Mohamed Al-Thani initiated the building of a private library H. E. Shaikh Dr. Hassan Bin Mohamed Al-Thani began to develop the collections in the framework of a comprehensive cultural project 90’s In focus was on collecting resources of Arabia and the Arabic and Islamic culture. This is when the library became famous as a cultural landmark 2006 The Heritage Library is a subsidiary of Cultural Development Center of Qatar Foundation.

Foreign Language Books Collections 23, 000 titles distributed as follows: • Translations of the Holy Qur’an • Translations of One Thousand One Nights • Resources on the history of Arabia in the writings of travelers • First Arabic prints in Europe • Islamic scientific heritage • Civilizations of the Orient (Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, Yemen) • First Orientalists Studies • Resources on the History of Qatar such as :

Collections A HANDBOOK OF ARABIA 1917

Collections NARRATIVE OF A YEAR’S JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARABIA (1862 -63) 1866 William Gifford Palgrave

Collections GAZETTEER OF THE PERSIAN GULF, OMAN, AND CENTRAL ARABIA 1915 Lorimer, John Gordon

Collections DESCRIPTION DE l‘ARABIE, faite sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux memes 1774 Niebuhr, Carsten

Collections ARABIA FELIX: ACROSS THE EMPTY QUARTER OF ARABIA 1932 Thomas, Bertram

Arabic Language Books Collections 85, 000 books covering wide area of science and art • First printed books in the Arab press: Shuwayr- Beirut – Aleppo – Al-Musil – Bulaq- Al Hajar

Collections 2, 400 MANUSCRIPTS Ages: Languages: Subjects: Umayyad ﺍﻟﻌﺼﺮ ﺍﻷﻤﻮﻱ Arabic Medicine Mamluk ﺍﻟﻌﺼﺮ ﺍﻟﻤﻤﻠﻮﻛﻲ Persian Astronomy Abbasid ﺍﻟﻌﺼﺮ ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺳﻲ East Asian Arabic literature Ottoman ﺍﻟﻌﺼﺮ ﺍﻟﻌﺜﻤﺎﻧﻲ Pilgrimage ﺷﻌﺎﺋﺮ ﺍﻟﺤﺞ Sahih al-Bukhari ﺻﺤﻴﺢ ﺍﻟﺒﺨﺎﺭﻱ

Collections 600 MAPS For Arabia and Gulf The oldest Maps date back to 1478 Creator: Ptolemy

Collections 120 MAGAZINES - 10, 000 VOLUMES 12 NEWSPAPERS – 1200 ISSUES of: Arabian Peninsula “Al Jazeera Al Arabiya “

Digi. Turath

Hardware Man power Software HL Digi. Turath Project Collections

Selection Angle Categorization Metadata Collections

Selection Pilot Project European Books = 4326 European Maps = 405 Arabic Books = 711 Arabic Manuscripts = 303 Arabic Newspaper = 60 Arabic Magazines = 12 Total = 5817 Scanned Collections Phase 2 Arabic Book = 536 Foreign Book= 968 Manuscript = 411 Total = 1915 Selected

Phase 2 Based on the items condition; Collection to be categorized according to the scanning angel as 90 degree (Vcradle) and 180 degree (Flat bed). Angle Categorization Collections selected for Digi. Turath project phase 2 categorized as follows: - 60% Can be digitized with the existing scanners. “flat bed” -40% Require procuring the Vcradle scanner.

To Start the digitization project you should have metadata for 50% of the selected collections. Collections Metadata

Hardware Man power Software HL Digi. Turath Project Collections

Software Digital Repository system Workflow System OCR

Software Digital Repository system Pilot Project Archival. Ware system Phase 2 Dspace

Pilot Project Thrinaina’s Digiflo: Annual License fee of 25, 000 USD with support from vendor <Has been customized to meet HL requirements in pilot project and approved efficiency. > Workflow System Software Phase 2 1 - Thrinaina’s Digiflo : Costs 25, 000 USD/Year with support 2 - Digital Asset Factory [DAF]: Free

Software For the Arabic collections HL coordinate with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to get the font files and feed the files to our software. OCR

Hardware Man power Software HL Digi. Turath Project Collections

Hardware IT Infrastructure Scanners Computers

Hardware IT Infrastructure Phase 2 IT Infrastructure need to be upgraded to allow digitizing more content.

Hardware Pilot Project Existing scanners : - 7 Flat bed scanners - 1 ATIZ - 1 I 2 S Phase 2 Scanners - 60% of the selected books can be scanned using the existing scanners. - 40% of the selected books require Vcradle scanners.

Hardware Phase 2 Since Images in LED monitors are more sharper and clearer; It is recommended to upgrade 4 LCD monitors to LED monitors for supervisors for doing the QA which enables to identify digitization flaw. Computers

Hardware Man power Software HL Digi. Turath Project Collections

System Administrator Web Developer Man power Metadata Specialist Supervisor Scanning & Processing & OCR Operators

Phase 2 + 1 Scanning Operator Man power = 10 Items/week 1 Processing Operator - Collections to be Digitized in phase 2 = 1915 Items - Phase 2 time period = 1 year Scanning & Processing & OCR Operators Accordingly, - 8 Scanning & processing operators are required. 160 Item/Month - 2 Arabic OCR operators are required” 1920 Item/Year

Thank You Mr. M. Hammam Assistant Manager Mr. Amr el-Masry Database Developer The Heritage Library