In conjunction with its development and the addition of new technologies in the second phase
The National Archives and Library launches an official Twitter account for the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive

The Archives and the National Library launched an official account for the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive with the aim of promoting it and introducing the largest percentage of the public to the electronic portal that opens to a huge digital archive that presents various historical and cultural materials from the rich, interesting and accurate history of the Arabian Gulf.
The National Archives and Library chose Twitter to open an official account for the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive, as it is a good way to display information, one of the most popular interactive communication sites, and one of the knowledge portals that is easy to use and displays information that reaches the growing and renewed public quickly and directly.
The Archives and the National Library begin the account of the Digital Archive of the Arabian Gulf on Twitter by defining it as the main source of original documents on the Arabian Gulf, then it begins by displaying historical photos that begin with a picture of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan - may God rest his soul - as he follows the grand closing race of the twelfth annual festival of Arabian camels. The thoroughbred race in Al Wathba in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State - may God protect him - in April 1991 AD, and then a picture of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his brother Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum in Abu Dhabi in September 1971 AD, and the pictures that document stations follow It is important in the history of the Emirates, and its leader, the builder and the founder, Sheikh Zayed, who was able, in cooperation with his brothers, the rulers of the Emirates, to construct the edifice of the union, build a modern state, and consolidate ideal external relations.
The account gives way to Twitter surfers to access the official website of the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive, and it continues to display images that also document memories and immortal positions in the record of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State - may God protect him - and his deputy, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. - May God protect him - and the official account of the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive on Twitter displays some pictures of the leader of the empowerment stage, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul.
The new official account on Twitter explains the services provided by the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive to researchers, how to benefit from them, and the importance of this site in terms of providing original historical documents and multimedia on the history and heritage of the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf region.
In conjunction with the establishment of the official website of the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive, the Archive and the National Library began the second phase of this project due to the great demand it received from researchers, academics, students and all those interested in the history of the Emirates and the Gulf region. The new phase included enriching the site with thousands of pages of historical documents related to the UAE. The United Arab Emirates in particular and the Arab Gulf countries in general, in addition to the technical development of the site, and the addition of features related to the processing of archival holdings so that in the future this site will be the platform for the greatest availability of historical archival materials in the Archives and the National Library, and in order to attract increasing demand for it and enable its visitors to benefit from its content Rich, unique and distinguished.
 The Archives and National Library of the UAE have provided the AGDA platform with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents of historical value drawn from the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
In its second phase, the website is witnessing the addition of advanced technologies for reading material data alongside images, and the addition of the world map feature, which is considered complementary to the search process, and which facilitates - through visual search - knowledge of documents and images of historical figures and important leaders in all countries of the world, and the platform will be enriched with features related to With the processing of archival holdings, the feature of virtual exhibitions is added to them, and the exhibitions include pictures and films.
The Archive and the National Library focus on developing the Arabian Gulf website on advanced technologies that help in optical recognition of letters and keywords for each file, and this enables the site visitor to count the repetition of any word, date or name of the place in each document separately, and this calls for unifying the spelling of place names. And the characters.
It is worth noting that the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive   https://www.agda.ae
Created on the Internet to display historical and cultural materials that tell the story of the documented and interesting history of the Arabian Gulf, it provides digital materials in Arabic and English spanning two centuries, documenting historical events, biographies of personalities, memoirs, manuscripts, photographs and official correspondence.