BA and CEDEJ Celebrate the Publishing of 500,000 Press Articles Online
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In collaboration with the Centre for Economic, Judicial, and Social Study and Documentation (CEDEJ), the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is honored to announce reaching the milestone of providing 500,000 digitized press clips online. This groundbreaking increase represents more than half of CEDEJ’s archive, which comprises 800,000 articles taken from 24 daily and weekly Egyptian and Arab print newspapers and 11 digital ones.
On this occasion, an event was held on Tuesday, 5 April at the French Cultural Center in Cairo, where the documentary film Egyptian Snippets was screened. The film demonstrated the state-of-art technologies that the BA uses in order to efficiently digitize its vast collection. This poses a challenge in terms of text and material quality. Following the event, an exhibition on Egyptian press clips was held, from 6 to 13 April, at Bayt al-Sinnari (Sinnari House) in Cairo.
As a beacon of disseminating knowledge and preserving history, the BA partnered with CEDEJ to catalogue and index a collection of press clips in preparation for digital preservation and accessibility through the archive. The online archive is equipped with a powerful search engine that supports multidimensional searching and user-friendly navigation.
The Centre for Economic, Judicial, and Social Study and Documentation (CEDEJ) is a multiple specialization research center founded in 1968 in Cairo. It is also affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), which runs under the auspices of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
The CEDEJ press archive dates back to 1976, and its data tackles important aspects of Egypt’s modern history.
For more information on the project, please click here.