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Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Oriental Studies holds 4,600 manuscripts and 3,765 block-prints in the Tangut language, the largest collection worldwide. The… -
Ibadi private libraries in the Mzab Heptapolis, Algeria
The Mzab oases in southern Algeria have been a refuge for Ibadism (a branch of Islam) since the destruction of the Rustamid State in North Africa… -
Preservation of the last hieroglyphic manuscripts in China: Shui archives in Libo, Guizhou
Shui manuscripts are the written records of the Shui people, an ethnic group with a population of four hundred thousand in south and southeast… -
The digitisation of Minangkabau's manuscript collections in Suraus
The main aim of the project is to digitise 250 manuscripts from five suraus in West Sumatra. These manuscripts contain various texts such as Al-Qur… -
Inventory of archival holdings in Jamaica
The targeted libraries and archives contain valuable historical collections that focus on the lives of enslaved Africans and free blacks in Jamaica… -
Voices of the living past: the 'Ashug' minstrel music of Azerbaijan
The ashug art is a 500 year-old narrative and musical tradition that has survived in the mountains of Azerbaijan. The core of the art is the dastan… -
Documenting regional artistic traditions: Peru ca. 1750-1950
Art history as an academic discipline has had scant development in Peru. It is taught only at the undergraduate level at one university (… -
Riau manuscripts: the gateway to the Malay intellectual world
There are small collections of documents in the Riau Archipelago, which may throw new light on our appreciation of the wider Malay-Muslim world.… -
Endangered archives of Sudanese trade unions (1899-2005)
The trade union movement has played a central role in Sudan's national politics. It is expected to play a critical future role in building and… -
Digitisation of Bolivian indigenous communities records on ayllu structure, tax and land tenure
This project aims to digitise and microfilm 163,000 pages of the records of the indigenous population who lived in communities and large private… -
Preservation, storage and accessibility for archives of the pre-industrial rural society of the Ukrainian Steppe
The traditional rural society of Southern Ukraine from the second half of the 18th to the first half of the 19th century was a unique part of the… -
Rescue of two photographic collections of rapidly changing cultures in rural Guatemala dating from the 1890s through to the 1930s
The Center for Mesoamerican Research (CIRMA) is a non-profit foundation founded in 1978 and based in Antigua, Guatemala. As part of its mission to… -
Preservation through digitisation of rare negatives and photographs from Nepal
Work on photographic archiving is very important in Nepal - photographic records for as late as the 1950s and 1960s of all of rural and much of… -
Feasibility survey of documenting selected 18th-20th century written heritage from Nepal
Nepal is one of the few remote places on earth where westernisation and modernisation have been approaching with unparalleled speed. After the… -
Buddhist archive of photography in Luang Prabang, Laos - major project phase I
An EAP pilot project (EAP086) investigated the extent and conditions of an archive of Theravada Buddhist photographs now mainly preserved in one…