The British Library has announced a major project:
Sounds good.
Its plans will digitise more than 500,000 pages from the archives of the East India Company and India Office, in addition to 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts -- all of which will be made freely available online for the first time.See the official press release, Transforming our understanding of Middle Eastern history: The British Library and Qatar Foundation unveil project to digitise half a million pages of archive material.
Sounds good.