Tuesday, August 09, 2016

The Digital Library of the Middle East (Peter Herdrich).

THE ASOR BLOG: Introducing the Digital Library of the Middle East (Peter Herdrich).
The desire to more thoroughly secure collections of all kinds is one of the primary motivations behind a new project developed by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Antiquities Coalition, the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). The DLME proposes a large-scale digital library that would encompass online collections of material relating to the cultures of the Middle East.