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Digitizing the National Library of Vietnam

Written byMong Palatino
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Posted 12 March 2013 7:43 GMT

Since 2006, the the National Library of Vietnam has partnered with the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation to digitally preserve the special collection of the library which features some 4000 ancient texts in Hán and Nôm, the former ideographic writing systems of Vietnam.

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