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BA Hosts Digitizing Arabic Text Workshop

In partnership with Yale University, the BA hosted the Digitizing Arabic Text Workshop from 3 to 7 December 2007. Attendees from Yale University were offered training in the digitizing and OCRing of Arabic texts. Provided by the BA Digital Lab experts and the BA ISIS staff, the workshop included ...

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BA Holds Digitization Training Workshop for American University of Beirut

Pursuing its mission in disseminating knowledge and sharing its expertise, the BA hosted a group of five ICT and library information specialists from the American University of Beirut (AUB) for the workshop “Digitization: from Thoughts to Implementation”. The workshop was conducted by the BA ICT ...

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Brill and BA Collaborate in Boosting Arabic Digitization at Leiden

In the framework of celebrating the 400 th anniversary of the Leiden chair of Arabic, Brill has approached the BA to conduct a training workshop on digitizing Arabic text, sponsored by and held at Brill publishing house in Leiden, the Netherlands. The celebration commemorates the establishment of ...

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BA Opening Hours During Eid al-Adha

On the occasion of the Feast (Eid al-Adha), the BA will be closed to the public from Sunday, 11 September 2016 to Tuesday, 13 September 2016. The Library will be open on Wednesday, 14 September and Thursday, 15 September 2016 from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm. Regular opening hours will resume after the ...

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Digitization of Arabic Language Books Workshop and Conference

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) organized the Digitization of Arabic Language Books Conference from 21 to 25 February 2006, in collaboration with Stanford University and Yale University, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The main aim of the conference was to foster the ...

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