GLAM/Newsletter/February 2015/Contents/Armenia report
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Snippet: Editors of Armenian Wikipedia created more than 350 articles about Armenian doctors: Armenian Genocide victims during February [1].
Armenian GLAM team collaborated with Armenian Medical Museum, and the head of Museum Haroutyun Minassian provided us with huge deal of materials about doctors, which was scanned and now Armenian community works on those texts making them into Wiki articles.
Dr Minasyan provided his book: "Armenian doctors repressed and massacred in Ottoman Empire", images from archive of Armenian Medical Museum. The book was scanned and uploaded in commons and wikisource. After making schedules in cooperation page, the editors created over 280 articles on Eastern Armenian and 70 on Western Armenian.
The process is ongoing and creation of new articles, upload of the images and work with other provided materials is expected.
About book
Armenian doctors repressed and massacred in Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey and nearby territories. A brief biographical dictionary/ H.Minasyan. – Yerevan, Lusabats, 2014, 523 pages
There are alphabetically represented the brief biographies of Armenian doctors and health workers repressed and massacred in Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey and nearby territories on the basis of ethnicity mainly in 19-20 centuries.
