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Documenting the written heritage of East Goğğam: a rich culture in jeopardy
The main objective of this project is to document valuable monastic collections in East Goğğam and preserve selected endangered materials.… -
Digitisation of the national sound archives of the Union of Comoros
The national sound archives of the Union of Comoros consists of approximately 1,000 magnetic audio tapes, stored at the Comorian national research… -
Nineteenth century documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives
The project proposes to undertake the urgent preservation, through digital technology, of the extensive nineteenth century holdings located in the… -
Social history and cultural heritage of Mali: preserving the archives of professional photographers
Among the earliest professional African photographers in Mali, the negative archives of Abdourahmane Sakaly and Mamadou Cissé contain rare… -
Manuscripts of the Sri Lankan Malays
The Malays of Sri Lanka are a remarkable community, having preserved a spoken dialect of Malay and a rich writing tradition in that language… -
Locating and surveying early religious and related records in Mizoram, India
This pilot project aims to locate and survey for the first time endangered and privately held ecclesiastical documents in Mizoram, India. Dating… -
Constituting a digital archive of Tamil agrarian history during the colonial period
The aim of this project is to create an archive of documents of socio-historical relevance to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and… -
Collection and preservation of Shui manuscripts from private collections in South Guizhou
The Shui manuscripts in south Guizhou are crucial but endangered materials for studies on the indigenous Shui ethnic group and its unique culture… -
Preservation of Kaya district colonial archives and assessment of the potential and feasibility of recovering other former district capitals' collections, Burkina Faso
This pilot project consists of two components: 1) preservation of the archive that was kept by the colonial district administration of the Cercle… -
The manuscripts of the Riyadh Mosque of Lamu, Kenya
This project will salvage the manuscript collection held at the Riyadha mosque in Lamu, Kenya. The Riyadha mosque college was founded in the late… -
To preserve Indian recordings on 'Odeon' label shellac discs
'Odeon' label shellac discs were issued in India during 1912-1938. The company produced over 2,000 titles of north and south Indian music… -
Last traces of a destroyed community: surveying the Hungarian Jewish congregational archives
In the spring of 1941, around 825,000 Jews lived in thousands of cities, townships and villages in Hungary. Four years later the majority of the… -
A survey of the libraries of Abéché, former capital of the Sultanate of Waday (Eastern Chad)
This pilot project will survey manuscripts held in some of the libraries of Abéché, the main Saharan centre of Eastern Chad. In 1890 Abéché became… -
Regional Archive at Cape Coast, Ghana: pre-colonial and colonial documents preservation project
This pilot project targets endangered archival collections in the Central administrative region of Ghana and will be undertaken in collaboration… -
World War II and the origins of Hausa newspapers: the early years of 'Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo'
This project will digitise and preserve the early years of the Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, the first newspaper entirely in Hausa…