Prophet’s Mosque audio archives to be cloud-based

MADINAH — The Presidency for the Affairs of the Prophet›s Mosque is updating its electronic archiving systems with an audio library and transferring all the library›s archives to the cloud. The lectures, speeches, sermons and recitations will now be archived on a special site linked to the official presidential site on the Internet. This will enable easy access of the Prophet’s Mosque’s archives. Researchers, science students and visitors seeking scientific guidance materials would be able to do so directly from any place, even without access to the library, according to a report in Al-Riyadh newspaper. Director of audio library management Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hattab Al-Hunaini met with the director of the Business Association of Integrated Systems Mohammed Al-Douri at the company›s headquarters in Abu Dhabi to initiate this project. Al-Hunaini confirmed that the audio library at the Prophet›s Mosque is 30 years old and it has been recording and saving all sermons and recitations, and providing free copies of the sermons and recitations to visitors.