Digital Archives

The DH Section gives special attention to the act of transforming the material archives, (documents, newspapers, journals, photographs ..) to an electronic archive by digitizing in accordance with universally  accepted norms and of preserving it in databases to be used by researchers. To this end the Section has set up a digitization lab that equipped with high resolution digital cameras. A data base that includes around 750,000 electronic documents has been set up and made available to researchers.