The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (AGDA) is the bilingual free and open-access online national archive of the United Arab Emirates which was launched in 2019. It offers digitized documents about the events concerning the

Gulf countries The Arab states of the Persian Gulf refers to a group of Arab states which border the Persian Gulf. There are seven member states of the Arab League in the region: Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. ...

from the 1820s.

History and coverage

The AGDA was created in 2019 as a result of the combination of the archives of the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. The related agreement was signed by the parties in 2017. It is part of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and contains videos, photographs and documents in Arabic and English. The latter also includes letters, memos, transcripts, and official correspondence some of which are those of the oil companies which involved in the oil exploration activities in the region. The materials are constructed through the

optical character recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scen ...

and can be accessed via Internet and mobile devices. The archive contains nearly more than a quarter of a million documents and photographs covering the events related to the region from the 1820s to the 2000s. Some of them are the papers produced by the British Foreign Office.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arabian Gulf Digital Archive 2019 establishments in the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

Government agencies established in 2019 Organisations based in Abu Dhabi Geographic region-oriented digital libraries Open-access archives History of the Persian Gulf