Here today, without doubt, a major cultural news, which is the launching of the web of 'WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY, "UNESCO's best gift for the whole humanity and especially for the younger and is already available online through the site:
Gather maps, texts , photos, recordings and films of all time and explain the jewels in seven languages \u200b\u200band cultural relics of all libraries in the world.
has mainly economic character, "predicted yesterday Abdelaziz Abid Nation, coordinator of the project launched by UNESCO and other 32 institutions.
The BDM does not provide standard documents, but "with heritage value, that will appreciate and better understand the cultures of the world in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, English and Portuguese. But there are documents online in over 50 languages. "
Among the oldest documents are some codices, thanks to the contribution of Mexico, and early American maps, drawn by Diego Gutierrez for the King of Spain in 1562, "said Abid.
Hyakumanto The treasures include Darani, a Japanese document published in the year 764 and is considered the first printed text of the story, a story of the Aztecs is the first mention of Jesus in the new world of work Arab scientists unveiling the mystery of algebra; bones used as oracles and Chinese steles, the Gutenberg Bible, old photos of Latin American National Library of Brazil and the famous Devil's Bible, the thirteenth century, the National Library of Sweden.
Easy to navigate, each piece of universal culture appears accompanied by a brief explanation of its contents and its meaning. The documents were scanned and incorporated in its original language, but the explanations appear in seven languages, including English.
The library started with about 1200 documents, but has been designed to receive an unlimited number of texts, engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations.
Access is free and users can directly enter the website, without having to register.
When you click on the address www.wdl.org , has the feeling of playing with his hands in world history knowledge.
allows the surfer to guide your search by era, geographical area, document type and institution. explanations proposed system in seven languages \u200b\u200b(Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, English and Portuguese). documents, meanwhile, have been scanned in their original language. thus possible, for example, studying in detail the Gospel of St. Matthew translated into Russian by the missionary Aleutian Veniamiov Ioann in 1840.
With a simple click, you can turn the pages of a book, zoom the text and move in all directions. The excellent image definition allows for convenient and thorough reading.
Among the gems it contains by far the BDM is the declaration of independence from the United States and the constitutions of many countries, a sixteenth-century Japanese text considered the first impression of the history of a student newspaper Venetian who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage around the world, the original "fables" of LaFontaine, the first book published in English in the Philippines Tagalog, the Gutenberg Bible, and some African rock paintings dating from 8,000 to. C.
Two regions of the world are particularly well represented: Latin America and the Middle East. This is due to the active participation of the Brazilian National Library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia.
The structure was modeled BDM project to digitize the Library of Congress, which began in 1991 and currently contains 11 million documents online.
Its makers claim that the BDM is primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students. But the importance of this site goes far beyond the incitement to the study of new generations living in a world of broadcasting. This project is not a simple online compendium of history: the ability to access, intimately and without time limit, the specimen invaluable, unapproachable, unique, each one has ever dreamed of knowing.
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