Library of Congress and Harvard University Form Historic Collaboration on Islamic Law Collections | Library of Congress

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Summary:

"The Library of Congress and Harvard Law School have initiated an unprecedented, multifaceted joint collaboration to identify, select and assess the copyright status of materials focusing on national legal gazettes. The effort, initially set for three years, will coordinate access to, knowledge-sharing, and legal analysis of Library of Congress’ collections related to Islamic law, including national legal gazettes, manuscripts and other materials. It will also improve a reader or researcher’s ability to search those sources, using new data science tools and faceted searches tailored to Islamic collections. The joint objective is to expand scholarly analysis of and greater public access to relevant legal materials...."

Link:

https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-043/library-of-congress-and-harvard-university-form-historic-collaboration-on-islamic-law-collections/2021-08-25/

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oa.new oa.harvard.u oa.copyright oa.new oa.loc oa.law oa.harvard.u oa.digitization oa.copyright oa.arabic oa.arab_world hu.oa

Date tagged:

08/26/2021, 16:36

Date published:

08/26/2021, 12:36