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Arabic Manuscripts in a Digital Library Context

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This paper aims to present related issues of indexing and retrieving Arabic manuscripts in digital libraries. Composed Arabic manuscripts have been taken as samples of presentation in this paper. Comments are commonly found in AMSs, with varying purposes and forms of comments. A digital library should deal with composed AMSs according to their characteristics and users’ requirements.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK

    Sulieman Salem Alshuhri

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    George Buchanan

  2. Computer Science Department, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Masood Masoodian

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Sally Jo Cunningham

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Alshuhri, S.S. (2008). Arabic Manuscripts in a Digital Library Context. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_50

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