Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst, has been researching Syrian history since 1996. He is the author of three books on modern Syria. Over an 8-year period, he has accumulated a very large collection of papers, documents, and photographs, which he decided to display in the first online museum of Syria. The idea came to mind and was executed with his friend Sahban Abd Rabbo, the site's webmaster, in late 2004.

"Hearing the actual voices of the past can bring history alive in a way that reading a transcribed text never can,” noted Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX. “Digital technologies now allow us to recapture the sounds of the past and make them freely available to students, teachers, and all Americans through the World Wide Web."

"Il sito vuole essere il luogo in cui si deposita parte dell'attività che fa capo alla cattedra di Storia medievale del Dipartimento di Storia dell'Università degli Studi di Parma (prof. Roberto Greci). Pensato come palestra e laboratorio, il sito consente di avvicinarsi al Medioevo attraverso fonti, studi ed eventi culturali di diversa natura.

"Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.

"La base propose la consultation des livres d’architecture manuscrits et imprimés publiés en France, écrits ou traduits en français aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles : traités généraux, traités de fortifications, recueils de modèles (châteaux, hôtels, maisons), livres d’ornements (lucarnes, cheminées, fontaines, fabriques de jardin...), traité

"Based in Amsterdam and Paris, the European Archive is a non-profit foundation working towards universal access to all knowledge. The archive will achieve this through partnerships with libraries, museums, other collection bodies, and through building its own collections. The primary goal of collecting this knowledge is to make it as publicly accessible as possible, via the Internet and other means.

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