Wikilala

Wikilala
Official patch of Wikilala
Type of site
Digital library
Available inOttoman Turkish, Turkish
Headquarters
Istanbul
,
Turkey
Country of originTurkey
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Sadi Özgür, Harun Tuncer
RevenueInstitutional subscription
URLwikilala.com
RegistrationYes
Launched2019; 7 years ago (2019)
Current statusActive

Wikilala, nicknamed Google of Ottoman Turkish, is a Turkish digital library of Ottoman Turkish textual materials. Wikilala, as of 2024 in its beta version, consists of more than 109,000 printed Ottoman Turkish texts, including over 45,000 newspapers, 32,000 journals, 4,000 books and 26,000 articles. Wikilala provides its users with full-text search using the Ottoman Turkish alphabet or Turkish alphabet.[1]

As of April 2021, the website has received over 200,000 visitors from 107 countries since its launch in 2019.[2]

History

The project was started in 2019 by Sadi Özgür, lecturer of Department of History, Istanbul Aydın University in collaboration with Harun Tuncer. The library consists of a detailed account of Ottoman literature, social and cultural life, and political environment.

Digitization

Document digitization means scanning at high resolution; already digitized files can be uploaded directly.

Once uploaded, documents are run through optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the text. The text is indexed, and the documents become searchable as Latin alphabet and Arabic texts.[3]

Other works

The Turkish dictionary titled el-Hazînetü'l-Azîziye fi'l-Lügati'l-Osmâniyye by Sir James Redhouse was lost for a time. It was discovered and digitized. Redhouse took twenty years to create that dictionary in 10 volumes.[4]

Recognition

Wikilala was awarded Innovative Initiative of the Year Award by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in April 2021 for its role in preserving Ottoman history.[5]

References

  1. ^ Aa, Daily Sabah With (2021-04-02). "Digital Turkish libraries: Ottoman, int'l resources just a click away". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  2. ^ IHA, Daily Sabah with (2021-04-23). "WikiLala, 'Google' of Ottoman-Turkish documents, launches in full". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  3. ^ "WikiLala Projesi nedir?". Son Dakika Haber (in Turkish). 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  4. ^ "Redhouse'un 10 ciltlik kayıp Türkçe sözlüğü bulundu". KARAR (in Turkish). 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  5. ^ "Osmanlı hazineleri rafta kalmayacak". turkiyegazetesi.com.tr (in Turkish). 5 April 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-30.

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