The "center" aims to spread awareness about its historical and cultural role

"Emirati Experiences" Celebrate the Day of the Arab Document in "Al Majid"

Participants in the virtual seminar of the Juma Al Majid Center.

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On the occasion of the Arab Document Day, which falls on October 17 of each year, the Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage organized a virtual seminar entitled “Emirati Experiences in Document and Archives Management”, in which a number of state institutions interested in documents and archives participated.

The center aims, through the symposium, to spread awareness of the importance of the Arab document, and its historical and cultural role in its many forms.

Several institutions participated in the symposium, including: the National Archives in Abu Dhabi, the Dubai Center for Historical Documents of the Dubai Municipality, the Sharjah Documentation and Archives Authority, the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage, the Sharjah Heritage Institute, and the Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage in Dubai.

The symposium was initiated by the head of the Dubai Historical Documentation Center of the Urban Heritage Department in Dubai Municipality, Abdulaziz Saleh Al Shehhi, highlighting the center’s experience in establishing a permanent exhibition in the Shindagha area that includes eight galleries. More than 37,000 visitors, including tourists, school and university students, visit each year. In it to the history of Dubai.

For his part, the technical expert at the National Archives in Abu Dhabi, Hassan Al-Masabi, reviewed the emergence and development of the National Archives, its organizational structure, strategic objectives, legal and standard references, and its main tasks, which are collecting and preserving documents from government institutions, through preservation, maintenance and restoration.

For her part, Naama Al Suwaidi, a documentary and archive expert at the Sharjah Documentation and Archives Authority, said, "The authority is preparing the reference for the Emirate of Sharjah to provide documentary materials and archival and knowledge services, and it is based on a unified system for managing government documents, and it works to collect public and private archive balances."

While the first researcher at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage, Fatima Muhammad Abdullah, discussed the center's experience in promoting the Emirati national heritage, transmitting it between generations and introducing it to it at the regional and global levels, in addition to organizing a group of heritage events and competitions, and conducting specialized studies and research to preserve and document the national heritage. And providing sources and heritage references for researchers, interested persons and all members of society.

For her part, the official of the Archives Department at the Sharjah Heritage Institute, Israa Al-Mulla, shed light on the Institute's experience in digitizing documents and archival materials at the Institute's Arab Heritage Center, in addition to establishing the Institute's Restoration Department, in order to preserve and maintain all documents and manuscripts of the Emirate of Sharjah. .

Recent trends

On the experience of the Juma Al Majid Center in the Department of Records and Archives, Dr. Taha Muhammad Nour, the scientific supervisor of documents and archives at the center, said that the determinants of work in document and archive management are based on combining modern trends in document science and archives and the traditional archival theory and its developments and the use of modern technology, and the center’s plan In building an integrated electronic system for managing documents and archives EDRAMS, reviewing the Majid system for managing the final archive, and the center's experience in developing the international standard for public archival description.

• October 17th of each year marks the celebration of this occasion.

Abdulaziz Al Shehhi:

• «Dubai Historical Documentation Center is visited annually by more than 37 thousand visitors».

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