Heritage made digital, Qatar Digital Library- a partnership to digitize heritage

Qatar Digital Library, QDL, is a project that began in 2012 as a partnership between Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library and The British Library https://www.qdl.qa/en/about. To create and formulate easy accessible online platform with an easy access to historical material from the Gulf region’s history. A collection of archival materials, which were not available previously, can now be accessed easily, including maps, archives, photographs, manuscripts, and much more. This lightning talk is aiming to illustrate the project’s phases, what was the idea behind it and how it had contributed to the overall knowledge of the users in the Middle East and the rest of world.