King Saud University (KSU) is providing an online digital archive of very rare Arabic manuscripts. The name of the digital archive is “Makhtota” which means manuscript. This repository contains a lots of Arabic manuscripts which are very rare and accessible online. The user interface is bi-lingual (Arabic & English). An advanced search interface is available with metadata fields such as manuscript name, author name, author date, description, material description, subject, referrals, reproducer name, copy date, category no general no, & reference. Statistics section provides the information about the most viewed items and ‘items viewed today’ and may be helpful to user community. In conclusion this is a commendable effort, project widely accessible and visible to worldwide scholarly community.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:07:27 +0000
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