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Bilingual Qatar Digital Library: Benefits and Challenges

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Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries (ICADL 2018)

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Large digital libraries often require designing a multilingual digital platform for their users. The multilingual access to materials still presents substantial challenges to the digital library designers. Taking the example of the Qatar Digital Library (QDL), we explore some of the tools for bilingual access and reflect on further ways of creating bilingual metadata records for QDL.

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  1. UCL-Qatar, Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar

    Mahmoud Sayed A. Mahmoud & Maha M. Al-Sarraj

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  1. University College London Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    Milena Dobreva

  2. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Annika Hinze

  3. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Maja Žumer

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Mahmoud, M.S.A., Al-Sarraj, M.M. (2018). Bilingual Qatar Digital Library: Benefits and Challenges. In: Dobreva, M., Hinze, A., Žumer, M. (eds) Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries. ICADL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11279. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_19

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