Research Grants Awarded in 2008
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP188 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions in Eastern India |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Abhijit Bhattacharya |
| Host institution: | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £10,009 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP201 |
| Title of project: | Study and collection of Hakku Patras and other documents among folk communities in Andhra Pradesh |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Thirmal Rao Repally |
| Host institution: | Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University |
| Archival partner: | Andhra Pradesh State Archives |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £10,261 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP205 |
| Title of project: | Endangered manuscripts of Western Sumatra. Collections of Sufi brotherhoods |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Irina Katkova |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £6,550 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP208 |
| Title of project: | Preserving memory: documentation and digitisation of palm leaf manuscripts from northern Kerala, India |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan |
| Host institution: | SAHA: Stirring Action on Heritage and Arts |
| Archival partner: | Folkland International Centre for Folklore and Culture |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £14,185 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP209 |
| Title of project: | Survey on surviving dongjing archives in Jianshui, Tonghai and Mengzi |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Fei Huang |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Archival partner: | University Library, Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £9,180 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP212 |
| Title of project: | Locating, documenting and digitising: Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Legacy of the Sultanate of Buton, South-Eastern Sulawesi Province, Indonesia |
| Principal investigator: | Mr S Suryadi |
| Host institution: | Leiden University |
| Archival partner: | Haluoleo University at Kendari |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £29,420 |
| Duration: | 14 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP220 |
| Title of project: | Saving archival documents of archaeological researches conducted during the 1920s and 1930s in Ukraine |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Victoria Kolesnikova |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | The Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the NASU |
| Location of archival material: | Ukraine |
| Award: | £8,800 |
| Duration: | 11 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP229 |
| Title of project: | Acehnese manuscripts in danger of extinction: identifying and preserving the private collections located in Pidie and Aceh Besar regencies |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Fakhriati M. Thahir |
| Host institution: | State Islamic University Jakarta |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £10,987 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP128 |
| Title of project: | Thai rainbow archives project: a digitised collection of Thai gay, lesbian and transgender publications |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Peter Jackson |
| Host institution: | Australian National University |
| Archival partner: | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC), Bangkok |
| Location of archival material: | Thailand |
| Award: | £53,934 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP180 |
| Title of project: | Preservation through digitisation of the endangered Armenian rare books and making them accessible on the Web (phase 1) |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Tigran Zargaryan |
| Host institution: | Fundamental Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences |
| Archival partner: | Fundamental Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences |
| Location of archival material: | Armenia |
| Award: | £46,795 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP183 |
| Title of project: | Preserving early print literature on the history of Tamilnadu |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Sundar Ganesan |
| Host institution: | Roja Muthiah Research Library |
| Archival partner: | Roja Muthiah Research Library |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £49,885 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP184 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of endangered African diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez |
| Host institution: | Harriet Tubman Institute, York University |
| Archival partner: | Archivo Provincial de Matanzas |
| Location of archival material: | Cuba |
| Award: | £44,246 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP187 |
| Title of project: | Syliphone - an early African recording label |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Graeme Counsel |
| Host institution: | African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific |
| Archival partner: | Bibliothèque Nationale de Guinée |
| Location of archival material: | Guinea |
| Award: | £8,821 |
| Duration: | 4 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP190 |
| Title of project: | Digitising archival material pertaining to 'Young India' label gramophone records |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Suresh Chandvankar |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | National Center for the Performing Arts Mumbai |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £21,300 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP191 |
| Title of project: | Strategies for archiving the endangered publications of French India (1800-1923) |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Anne Gilliland |
| Host institution: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Archival partner: | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £39,130 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP204 |
| Title of project: | Digitising the photographic archive of Zenzo Nkobi |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Piers Pigou |
| Host institution: | South African History Archive |
| Archival partner: | South African History Archive |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £8,315 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP207 |
| Title of project: | 'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue project of Native Peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Irina Podgorny |
| Host institution: | Museo de La Plata |
| Archival partner: | Museo de La Plata |
| Location of archival material: | Argentina |
| Award: | £50,807 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP217 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of Yi archives in south dialect in Yunnan, China |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jian Xu |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Archival partner: | Archives of Yunnan Provincial Administrative Office of Minorities Classics, University Library of Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £48,880 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP218 |
| Title of project: | The endangered archives of Sudanese trade unions (1899-2005) - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Siddig Elzailaee |
| Host institution: | London Metropolitan University |
| Archival partner: | Abdel Kareem Murghani Cultural Centre |
| Location of archival material: | Sudan |
| Award: | £26,448 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP219 |
| Title of project: | Assessment and preservation of the old Vietnamese École Française d'Extrême Orient archive in ancient ideographic Nôm script |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Philip Alperson |
| Host institution: | Temple University |
| Archival partner: | Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI), Hanoi |
| Location of archival material: | Vietnam |
| Award: | £43,200 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP248 |
| Title of project: | Preserving more Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Anne Feldhaus |
| Host institution: | Arizona State University |
| Archival partner: | Marathi Manuscript Centre, Pune |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £19,439 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP250 |
| Title of project: | Preserving East Timor's endangered archives: stage two |
| Principal investigator: | Rev Agustinho de Vasconcelos |
| Host institution: | Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat |
| Archival partner: | Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat |
| Location of archival material: | East Timor |
| Award: | £15,572 |
| Duration: | 12 months |