The Heritage LibraryCultural Development Center

Qatar Foundation

Since 1979

H.E. Shaikh Dr. Hassan Bin Mohamed Al-Thani initiated the building of a private library

1979

1989 H.E. Shaikh Dr. Hassan Bin Mohamed Al-Thani began to develop the collections in the framework of a comprehensive cultural project

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

The Heritage Library is a subsidiary of Cultural Development Center of Qatar Foundation.

2006

90’s

Historical overview

CollectionsForeign Language Books23,000 titles distributed as follows: • Translations of the Holy Qur’an

• Translations of One Thousand and 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 ARABIA1917

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

Collections

William Gifford Palgrave

Collections

GAZETTEER OF THE PERSIAN GULF, OMAN, AND CENTRAL ARABIA1915

Lorimer, John Gordon

Collections

Niebuhr, Carsten

DESCRIPTION DE l‘ARABIE, faite sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux memes1774

Collections

ARABIA FELIX: ACROSS THE EMPTY QUARTER OF ARABIA1932

Thomas, Bertram

CollectionsArabic Language Books

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

2,400 MANUSCRIPTS

Collections

Ages: Umayyad األموي العصر

Mamluk العصر المملوكيAbbasid العصرالعباسيOttoman العصرالعثماني

Languages: Arabic

Persian

East Asian

Subjects:Medicine

Astronomy

Arabic literature

Pilgrimage الحج شعائرSahih al-Bukhari البخاري صحيح

600 MAPS For Arabia and GulfThe oldest Maps date back to 1478

Creator: Ptolemy

Collections

120 MAGAZINES - 10,000 VOLUMES12 NEWSPAPERS – 1200 ISSUES of: Arabian Peninsula “Al Jazeera Al Arabiya “

Collections

DigiTurath

HL DigiTurath

Project

Man power

Hardware Software

Collections

Collections

Selection

Angle Categorization

Metadata

Selection

CollectionsPilot Project

Phase 2

European Books = 4326 European Maps = 405 Arabic Books = 711 Arabic Manuscripts = 303 Arabic Newspaper = 60 Arabic Magazines = 12 Arabic Book = 536

Foreign Book= 968 Manuscript = 411

Total = 1915 Selected

Total = 5817 Scanned

Angle CategorizationCollections

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).

Collections selected for DigiTurath project phase 2 categorized as follows:- 60% Can be digitized with the existing scanners. “flat bed”

- 40% Require procuring the Vcradle scanner.

Metadata

Collections

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

HL DigiTurath

Project

Man power

Hardware Software

Collections

SoftwareDigital Repository system

Workflow System

OCR

Software

Digital Repository system

Phase 2

DspaceArchivalWare system

Pilot Project

Software

Workflow System Phase 2

1- Thrinaina’s Digiflo : Costs 25,000 USD/Year with support

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. >

Pilot Project

2- Digital Asset Factory [DAF]: Free

Software

OCR

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

HL DigiTurath

Project

Man power

Hardware Software

Collections

Hardware

IT Infrastructure

Scanners

Computers

Hardware

IT Infrastructure

IT Infrastructure need to be upgraded to allow digitizing more content .

Phase 2

Hardware

Scanners - 60% of the selected books can be scanned using the existing scanners.- 40% of the selected books require Vcradle scanners.

Phase 2

Pilot Project

Existing scanners :- 7 Flat bed scanners- 1 ATIZ- 1 I2S

Hardware

Computers

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.

Phase 2

HL DigiTurath

Project

Man power

Hardware Software

Collections

Man power

System Administrator

Web Developer

Metadata Specialist

Supervisor

Scanning & Processing & OCR Operators

Scanning & Processing & OCR

Operators

Phase 2

1 Scanning Operator

1 ProcessingOperator

+ = 10 Items/week

Accordingly, - 8 Scanning & processing operators are required.

- Collections to be Digitized in phase 2 = 1915 Items- Phase 2 time period = 1 year

160 Item/Month 1920 Item/Year

Man power

- 2 Arabic OCR operators are required”

The Heritage Library

Thank YouMr. M. Hammam

Assistant Manager

Mr. Amr el-MasryDatabase Developer