title: The Arts and Crafts of Syria/Collection Antoine Touma and Linden-Museum Stuttgart
author:  Johannes Kalter 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: German
zlib_text: Documentation and Digital Preservation
  of Syrian Heritage
  A German Archive Project for Syria
  Karin Pu¨tt
  ABSTRACT: Since 2013, the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin and the German Archeological
  Institute (DAI) have hosted a digital archive documenting Syrian heritage and built
  environment. This project was developed in the face of a war that would destroy
  places of cultural heritage on a large scale. The archive consists of photos, plans, and
  documents and includes more than 200,000 items. For long-term storage and attain-
  ability they are integrated into the digital world of the DAI. In order to raise awareness
  and to present the data to a wider audience, selected photos and drawings are bun-
  dled into stories on a new website with text in English, Arabic, and German. The
  project exhibits Syrian cultural heritage in both its tangible and nontangible aspects.
  KEY
  WORDS: Syrian heritage, digital documentation, archiving, raising awareness,
  dissemination
  In late summer 2013 when the war in