Ilya Zaytsev ; Tatiana Anikeeva - "Manuscripta Islamica Rossica" - a new electronic resource of Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the collections of Russian repositories and libraries

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"Manuscripta Islamica Rossica" - a new electronic resource of Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the collections of Russian repositories and librariesArticle

Authors: Ilya Zaytsev 1; Tatiana Anikeeva 2

  • 1 State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
  • 2 Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

The paper discusses the current state of digitizing Islamic manuscript in Russia and the gradualbuilding of the digital collection “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica”. It outlines some of thechallenges and the benefits from providing digital access to these resources.


Volume: Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing
Section: Practitioner Papers
Published on: April 18, 2020
Accepted on: April 18, 2020
Submitted on: April 18, 2020
Keywords: digitization,Islamic manuscripts,Russian libraries,[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences

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