Yale University Library Gets Two Grants to Digitize Middle Eastern Materials
The Yale University Library has been awarded two grants totaling $890,000 to digitize Middle Eastern materials.
Here's an excerpt from "Yale Digitizes Documents":
The Yale University Library has received a $650,000 four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to digitize Syrian and Palestinian government records, and a $240,000 joint grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Joint Information Systems Committee to digitize Middle Eastern scholarly materials, according to a press release Thursday. The library will use advanced technology to translate the digitized text into searchable text, which will be available online.
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