Armenians worldwide Arts & culture

Vahakn N. Dadrian's digital archive to become available to the world

The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and Research Center (AEMRC) in Los Angeles will present Vahakn N. Dadrian's digital archive on November 15 at 4:00 p.m. at the museum in Mission Hills, according to a statement from the organization. The event can also be joined via Zoom. Dadrian (1926–2019) was a researcher of the Armenian Genocide and played a major role in the formation of genocide studies. The archive includes more than 100,000 pages and more than 660 gigabytes of digitized material from Ottoman, German, British, French, American and other sources. The work took sixteen years; the collection was moved from upstate New York to Los Angeles in ten trips. The new platform's "Ask Dadrian" tool allows questions to be put to the archive in natural language using artificial intelligence.

This story is based on the organisation's press release.