Arabian Gulf Digital Archive

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 from the 1820s.

Arabian Gulf Digital Archive
Agency overview
Formed2019
JurisdictionNational Archives of the United Arab Emirates
HeadquartersAbu Dhabi
Websitewww.agda.ae/en

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.[1][2] The related agreement was signed by the parties in 2017.[3] It is part of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates[4][5] and contains videos, photographs and documents in Arabic and English.[1] The latter also includes letters, memos, transcripts, and official correspondence[6] some of which are those of the oil companies which involved in the oil exploration activities in the region.[7] The materials are constructed through the optical character recognition and can be accessed via Internet and mobile devices.[1]

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.[2][8] Some of them are the papers produced by the British Foreign Office.[2]

References
  1. "Arabian Gulf Digital Archive". cogapp.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  2. Gerald Power (1 October 2019). "The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive. A Major New Resource for Gulf Analysts". The Euro-Gulf Information Center. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  3. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (2021). "Cultural and religious diplomacy as soft power in EU–GCC relations". In Adel Abdel Ghafar; Silvia Colombo (eds.). The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 67. ISBN 978-981-16-0279-5.
  4. "Finding and Using Digital Archives: Finding digital archives - a list of resources". University of Westminster Library Guides. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. Sundar Natarajan; Elangovan Alagumalai (February 2021). "The role of national archives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)". SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 (1): 12. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4243594. S2CID 253866390.
  6. "Digital Collections and Databases". Orient Institut Beirut. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. Khalid Al Hosani (4 May 2019). "UAE Updates. Arabian Gulf Digital Archive". The Gazelle. No. 160. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  8. "The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive is a window into the UAE's rich past". The National. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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