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Article about the digitization of manuscripts in Timbuktu in the New York Times

May 20th, 2008 by Rahim Rajan, Content Development Manager

In today’s Science section of The New York Times, John W. Noble describes our collaboration to digitize and make available some of the manuscripts from Timbuktu, in collaboration with a group of private libraries in Mali (SAVAMA-DCI) and Northwestern University’s Advanced Media Production Studio. A sacred map from TimbuktuThere are now a number of interesting web pages that describe this collaboration in greater detail:

A web page created by Aluka describing the goals of the project

A link to SAVAMA-DCI’s website

NUAMPS project blog on setting up the lab and training the SAVAMA team

Downloadable webinar on the collaboration

A web site created by NUAMPS about their work in Timbuktu

A link to the initial set of digitized manuscripts in Aluka (come and explore!).

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