Digital library gathers millions of pages of Ottoman documents
Published 22 Feb,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - An online digital library project, “WikiLala,” which aims to bring together and digitize all the printed texts from the Ottoman Empire since the introduction of the printing press, has been shedding new light on the empire’s history and culture.
In line with the project, more than 100,000 of pages of content consisting of books, magazines, newspapers and documents in Ottoman Turkish, can be accessed only with a click.
The project has been in the works since 2019 with the initiative of Hiperlink, the founder of Turkey’s first digital library, project manager Sadi Özgür and Harun Tuncer, project consultant and academic member at the History Department of Istanbul Aydın University.
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