Samsung Electronics Turkey these days introduced the hole of the Samsung Virtual Library, which gives unfastened virtual get admission to to the dear works retained within the archive of the Nationwide Library of Turkey, in addition to recent e-publications. This mission used to be discovered in cooperation with the Nationwide Library with a complete funding of 500,000 USD. With this mission cultural heritage will likely be made freely to be had to the general public, and will likely be handed all the way down to the longer term generations.
The hole rite used to be hosted via Turkish Minister of Tradition and Tourism Nabi Avcı and Director of Public Sector & Exterior Affairs and Technique at Samsung Electronics Turkey Dr. Erdem Erkul. Right through the rite, Korean Ambassador to Turkey Yun-soo Cho, President of the Knowledge and Conversation Applied sciences Authority Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan and Turkish Nationwide Library President Zülfi Toman made speeches to underline the significance of the mission.
The Samsung Virtual Library would be the maximum complete cultural public-private sector cooperation mission in its box. Because of the mission, the wealthy archive of the Nationwide Library, which accommodates some 27,000 hand-written works in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic, stamp collections, movie archives and phonograph information, can now be accessed freely and simply. The mission will additional give researchers unfastened get admission to to world instructional papers.
With the renewal of flooring flooring corridor of the Nationwide Library, an area used to be created for “Samsung Digital Library” with a capability of 86 other folks. The corridor has been supplied with Samsung capsules, notebooks, wi-fi printers, video partitions and monitors, making a relaxed and completely supplied surroundings for the relaxation of researchers.
Samsung’s first virtual library mission used to be with the distinguished Oxford College Library.
Digitalization is essential for Turkey’s 2023 objectives
Turkish Nationwide Library President Zülfi Toman underlined the lirary’s venture to give a contribution immediately to Turkish tradition, science, literature and social lifestyles. “We believe that the digital transformation is extremely important and we worked very hard to digitalize the millions of documents found in the National Library, which is considered to be a national archive, a museum and a research center, because we know that only technology-driven projects can become prestigious on national and international platforms.”
“To give the Turkish public free and easy access to all of these important documents, we chose to collaborate with Samsung. Through this collaboration, we aim to open the National Library once again as an attraction center, and to increase the number of visitors. We believe that this project will help Turkish culture to be better understood in the world,” mentioned Toman.
Tens of millions of works now added to the Samsung Virtual Library
Guests to the Samsung Virtual Library, which is situated throughout the Nationwide Library, can get admission to the next works freely:
27,000 volumes of handwritten paintings in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic,
Periodical publications day-to-day from Ottoman technology to the Republic,
Periodicals and greater than 2 million newspapers revealed since 1928,
Nearly 60,000 Ottoman newspapers,
Artwork,
French and English publications within the Turkish Fireside Assortment,
Karagöz & Hacivat archives,
Movie posters,
Maps, notes, stamps,
Political posters,
Greater than 5,000 phonograph information.
