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OF UNESCO FOR HUMANITY
Gather maps, texts, photos, recordings and films of all time and explains the jewels in seven languages \u200b\u200band cultural relics of all libraries in the world.
has mainly an economic nature, predicted yesterday NATION Abdelaziz Abid, coordinator of the project launched 32 Porla Unesco and other institutions.
The BDM will not provide current records, 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 more than 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," he said Abid.
Hyakumanto The treasures include darani, a Japanese document published in the year 764 and considered the first printed text of the story, a story of the Aztecs is the first mention of Jesus in the New World, Arab scientists work to unravel the mystery of algebra; bones used as oracles and Chinese steles , the Gutenberg Bible, old photos Latin National Library of Brazil and the famous Devil's Bible, the thirteenth century, dela National Library of Sweden.
is easy to navigate.
Each piece of the universal culture appears accompanied by a brief explanation of its content and meaning. The documents were scanned
and incorporated in its original language, but the explanations appear in seven languages, including THE SPANISH.
The library started with about 1,200 documents, but has been designed to receive an unlimited number of texts, engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations.
How to access the global site?
Although it will be officially launched today at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the World Digital Library is available on the Internet, using the search site www.wdl.org
Access is free and users can directly enter the web without having to register.
When you click on the address www.wdl.org , has the feeling of playing with his hands universal history of 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). The documents, meanwhile, have been scanned in their original language. Thus, it is possible, for example, a detailed study of the Gospel of St. Matthew, translated into Aleut of the Russian missionary 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 United States and the constitutions of many countries, a sixteenth-century Japanese text considered the first impression of the story, the diary of a Venetian scholar who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage around the world, the original of the "Fables" of La Fontaine, the first book published ; in the Philippines in English and Tagalog, the Gutenberg Bible, and some African rock paintings dating back to 8000 A. 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 library Alexandria University of Egypt and King Abdullah of 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 incitement to study the new generations living in a world of broadcasting. This project also is a simple online compendium of history: the ability to access, intimately and without time limit, the specimen invaluable, unapproachable, only that everyone has ever dreamed to know.
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