Opening of the conference by

Dr. Laurence RENAULT, Sorbonne Abou Dhabi

welcome by Dr. Hala Bayoumi, Scientific leader of the symposium

Part 2: Plenary conference – Keynote Speaker -  (presentation: 30 minutes, questions: 15 minutes)

Moderator : Dr. Sébastien OLIVEAU
Reporter : Mrs Coline HOUSSAIS

Dr. Thomas MILO, Civilization in Transition

How an old text trail-blazes innovation from analogue to digital

Thematic sessions Presenation: 15 minutes, questions: 5 minutes

Interdisciplinary Digital Archiving

President: Prof. Frédéric LAGRANGE, Sorbonne University/ CEFAS
Reporter : Dr. Radwa ZAKI

Prof. David Joseph WRISLEY: Digital Humanities Practices and Archival Appraisal in the Contemporary Arab World

Prof. Jean LAMBERT: The First Commercial Recordings of Yemenite Music (1935- 1960): A Data Base for the Future

Dr. Pavel BASHARIN: Judeo-Arabic Literature of genizot from the Abraham Firkovich Collection of the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg

Mrs. Coline HOUSSAIS: Nightingales in Baghdad – 1920s-1950s Iraqi Music, Archives and Live Performance

Mr. Pierre FRANCE: Bootleg Patrimonialization of Arabic Music Practices

Gathering in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel and departure to the National Archives of United Arab Emirates

Methodologies for Heritage Preservation »
President: Dr. Pavel BASHARIN, Russian State University for the Humanities, Mardjani Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
Reporter : Dr. Juliette HONVAULT

Dr. Ahmed MANSOUR: Digitization Arabic Typography: Bulaq Press Contributions

Mrs Noemi DAUCÉ/ Mrs Alice QUERIN: Digital archives: making Louvre Abu Dhabi collections available to everyone

Prof. Safwa BEDEIR: Virtual Archive and its Role in Recreation and Gathering of Document (An Applied Study).

Eng. Manal GHONEIM: Documentation of Architectural heritage with 3D modeling and 3D GIS (Alexandria as case study)

Scientific Data Analysis in the Arab World
President: Prof. David Joseph WRISLEY, NYU Abou Dhabi
Reporter : Mrs Coline  HOUSSAIS

Prof. Alicia GONZALEZ / Dr. Thomas MILO: A working solution for searching in Arabic scripted-texts.

Prof. Muhamed ALKHALIL/ Dr. Almotasem ALRAHABI: Identifying and Analyzing Places in Arabic Fiction Corpora

Mr. Clement DE BELSUNCE: The Skills and data platforms of Aix-Marseille University at the service of research in the human and social sciences in the Mediterranean

Eng. Dalia GALAL: SDMX Procedures from A Demographic Persective in Egypt

Digital Libraries in the Arab World   
President: Dr. Thomas MILO, DecoType team - The Netherlands
Reporter : Mrs Alaa QAQ

Prof. Bradley BAUER: Digitization Means Access: Using Digitization to Extend the Reach of Cultural Heritage Materials in a Global Network University

Dr. Radwa ZAKI: The Digital Projects for Studying the Islamic Inscriptions

Mr. Messaoud BELIANE: Training on Digital Archiving at the Institute of the Library and Documentation Science, University of Constantine 02

Manuscripts, rare books and endangered documents in the Arab World
President: Prof Jean LAMBERT, Musée de l’homme
Reporter: Mr. Pierre FRANCE

Dr. Walid GHALI: The Digitisation of Manuscripts Collections in The Arab World - What is the Way Forward?

Dr. Fatima CKEIKH: Manuscripts and Rare Books Digitization Project in the Algerian National Library: Readiness Assessment.

Mrs. Suzan DAANA: Palestinian Archive as a Case study.

Mr. Hassan ELMESSABI: Can this present link the past to the future?

Gathering in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel and departure to Sorbonne Abu Dhabi

Synthesis, conclusion and perspectives

Moderators: Dr. Hala BAYOUMI, Dr. Yann RODIER et Eng. Ahmed SAMIR

Mrs. Coline HOUSSAIS, Dr. Radwa ZAKI, Dr. Juliette HONVAULT, Mrs. Alaa QAQ, Mr. Pierre FRANCE, Dr. Ahmed MANSOUR