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• Vernacular Mathematics in Pre-Modern India

  Project Ref: EAP1063

  This project will collect materials from three regional vernacular mathematical cultures in India. The Material includes a variety of pre modern…

  

• Endangered Libraries In Timbuktu

  Project Ref: EAP1094

  The manuscripts of the legendary desert City of Timbuktu have received world-wide attention since the wilful destruction of more than 4000…

  

• Tuvalu National Archives major project

  Project Ref: EAP110

  The Tuvalu National Archives Pilot Project confirmed that vital documentation of the cultural, social and political heritage of Tuvalu is currently…

  

• Collection and digitisation of music in Micronesian society

  Project Ref: EAP115

  In an oral society such as Micronesia, music conveys considerable information on the past even as it reflects changing cultural patterns.…

  

• Digitising 'sacred heirloom' in private collections in Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia

  Project Ref: EAP117

  The highlands of Sumatra remain one of the most neglected regions of insular Southeast Asia in terms of philology, history and archaeology. Our…

  

• Preservation of historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem

  Project Ref: EAP119

  The main goal of this project is to digitise the historical periodical collection located at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in order to create archival…

  

• Preserving the archives of the United National Independence Party of Zambia

  Project Ref: EAP121

  The objective of this project is the electronic reproduction of the bulk of the documentary collection housed in the archives of Zambia's…

  

• Pages of Azerbaijan sound heritage

  Project Ref: EAP124

  Azerbaijanian oral folk and traditional music is a vast and rich cultural heritage. One of its most representative and sophisticated branches is…

  

• Archiving 'popular market' Bengali books

  Project Ref: EAP127

  This project aims to archive Bengali 'popular books' - street literature targeted at a demotic, non-metropolitan public, using…

  

• Thai rainbow archives project: a digitised collection of Thai gay, lesbian and transgender publications

  Project Ref: EAP128

  The emergence of open gay, lesbian, and transgender (GLT) cultures in major world cities is a sociologically significant phenomenon. The Thai…

  

• Digital archive of north Indian classical music

  Project Ref: EAP132

  The history of sound recording in India goes back more than a hundred years. Knowledge about the vast body of recorded music that has accumulated…

  

• Rescuing Liberian history - preserving the photographs of William VS Tubman, Liberia's longest serving President

  Project Ref: EAP139

  The project aims to conserve, organise and digitise approximately 6,500 unique Tubman-era photographs, containing the only extant visual records of…

  

• Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

  Project Ref: EAP140

  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

  Project Ref: EAP141

  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

  Project Ref: EAP143

  Shui manuscripts are the written records of the Shui people, an ethnic group with a population of four hundred thousand in south and southeast…