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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

TPDL 2019: Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge pp 406–409Cite as

Qatar Digital Library as a Platform for Digital Repatriation of Qatar’s Cultural Heritage

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Digital repatriation is a process in which cultural heritage objects, physically located outside of countries or communities of their origin, are “returned” where they belong in a digital form. The aim of this paper is to present challenges related to digital repatriation, basing on the experiences of Qatar National Library. Qatar’s complex history caused that its tangible heritage is distributed in over a dozen countries on at least three continents. The library undertakes a number of efforts to locate and digitize such heritage materials, in order to present them online in a digital form and preserve for the future. The main online platform for that is Qatar Digital Library, which is described in this paper from organizational, technical and end-user perspectives.

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  1. Qatar National Library, Education City, Doha, Qatar

    Marcin Werla

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  1. University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

    Antoine Doucet

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Antoine Isaac

  3. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Koraljka Golub

  4. OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

    Trond Aalberg

  5. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Adam Jatowt

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Werla, M. (2019). Qatar Digital Library as a Platform for Digital Repatriation of Qatar’s Cultural Heritage. In: Doucet, A., Isaac, A., Golub, K., Aalberg, T., Jatowt, A. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_44

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