Type of site | Digital library |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Owner | University of Bonn |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1 November 2013 |
| Current status | Active |
| Access | |
| Cost | Free |
| Coverage | |
| Record depth | Full-text |
| Format coverage | Newspapers and magazines |
| Temporal coverage | 1860–1945 |
| Geospatial coverage | Iran, Ottoman Empire, Arab World |
| Links | |
| Website | Digitization Project Translatio |
Digitization Project Translatio is a freely-available digital collection of 19th and 20th century periodicals in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish, created and maintained at the University of Bonn. [1] The project started in 2013, with funding provided by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. The publications had been provided in collaboration with several German institutions, eventually being digitized at Bonn. [2]
The collection is considered a strong archive of Egypt-based periodicals. [3] Some of the publications in the archive are also rare or hard to find. [4] The project's website has been praised for being user-friendly, while use of German language in descriptions and metadata as well as lack of information on editors and authors has been described as the disadvantages. [2]
The archive covers between 1860 and 1945, [1] and currently includes the following publications: