We are facing one of the greatest releases made by the UNESCO to humanity. The World Digital Library www.wdl.org
La Biblioteca reúne mapas, textos, fotos, grabaciones y películas de todos los tiempos y explica en siete idiomas las joyas y reliquias culturales de todas las bibliotecas del planeta. Tiene, sobre todo, carácter patrimonial, anticipó Abdelaziz Abid, coordinador del proyecto impulsado por la Unesco y otras 32 instituciones.
La BDM no ofrecerá documentos corrientes, sino con valor de patrimonio, que permitirán apreciar y conocer mejor las culturas del mundo en idiomas diferentes: árabe, chino, inglés, francés, ruso, español y portugués. Pero hay documentos en línea en más de 50 idiomas. Entre los documentos there are some older 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; Arab scientists work the mystery out of algebra and bones used as oracles 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.
How to access the whole site but will be officially presented today at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, World Digital Library is now available online through the site www.wdl.org
Access is free and users can directly enter the website, without having to register. Offers Internet guide your search by era, geographical area, document type and institution. The documents, meanwhile, have been scanned in their original language, thus it is possible, for example, to study in detail the Gospel of 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 and move text in all senses. The excellent image definition allows for convenient and thorough reading.
among the jewels it contains by far the BDM is the declaration of independence from the United States and the constitutions of many countries, the diary of a Venetian scholar who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage around the world; the original of the "fables" of LaFontaine, the first book in the Philippines in English and Tagalog, 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 National Library of Brazil, the Alexandrian Library of Egypt and King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia.
The structure was modeled BDM project to digitize the library of the United States 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: it is 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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