The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (AGDA) is the bilingual, free and open-access online national archive of the United Arab Emirates which was launched in 2019.
It offers digitized documents about the events concerning the Gulf countries from the 1820s.
[1] The latter also includes letters, memos, transcripts, and official correspondence[6] some of which are those of the oil companies which involved in the oil exploration activities in the region.
[7] The materials are constructed through the optical character recognition and can be accessed via Internet and mobile devices.
[1] The archive contains nearly more than a quarter of a million documents and photographs covering the events related to the region from the 1820s to the 2000s.