النشر الإلكتروني للمخطوطات العربية : مراجعة علمية

Abstract EN

The Arabic manuscripts are the most important source of preliminary information, representing important heritage component of the Arab history.

In the past years, there were some trials to publish electronic copies of Arabic manuscripts in various digital media.

Consequently, the study aimed to examine some published literature (electronically published work) about Arabic manuscripts.

Besides, the related topics on the Arab (regional) and international levels are tackled.

To achieve this goal, the study followed the method of scientific revisions of published literature, which are grouped according to the main phases of e- publishing.

The first phase of was to collect and observe the content about Arabic manuscripts, including studying automated cataloguing and databases of Arabic Manuscripts.

Secondly, e-publishing preparation for Arabic manuscripts, the phase included studies of Arabic manuscripts digitization and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of its pages.

Thirdly and finally, concerned with the content of the Arabic manuscripts.

This includes studying e-publishing of Arabic manuscripts and of sources of information in general.