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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…
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Digital archive of north Indian classical music
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…
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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…
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Assessment and preservation of the old Vietnamese École Française d'Extrême Orient archive in ancient ideographic Nôm script
This major research project is an effort to save the endangered Nôm archive at the Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI) in Hanoi, Vietnam…
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Digitisation of Yi archives in south dialect in Yunnan, China
This project will digitise endangered archival material written in the south dialect of the indigenous Yi language in Yunnan, China. All the…
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Digital archive of early Bengali drama
This project will digitise the wide collection of rare and unique material of, and on, Bengali drama held by a private collector, Dr Devajit…
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Preserving more Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible - major project
Marathi is a New Indo-Aryan language with inscriptional evidence extending back to A.D. 1012 and literature beginning in the 13th century.…
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Preservation of historic ephemera and manuscripts from Nepal
The main objective of this project will be to digitise and preserve approximately 1,450 ephemera from the period 1900-1960 and 215 manuscripts…
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Preservation through digitisation of rare photographic negatives from Mongolia
The Archives for Cinema, Photography and Sound Recording in Mongolia houses over 160,000 photo negatives, including 10,552 glass plate negatives.…
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Retrieval of two major and endangered newspapers: Jugantar and Amrita Bazar Patrika
This project aims to digitally retrieve and store issues of two leading newspapers, Jugantara patrika (Calcutta, Bengali, daily: 1937 - 1980) and…
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Digital library of the Lanten textual heritage
This project aims to preserve a corpus of 412 manuscripts that constitutes a resource of unique cultural value in Lanten society. Written in…
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Conservation, documentation and preservation of the knowledge of siddha medicine
The project aims to digitise two collections of siddha manuscripts: the collection of Mohana Raj (president of Akila Thiruvithancore Siddha Vaidhya…
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Documentary heritage at risk: digitisation and enhancement of the archive of the Monastery of Dominican nuns of Santa Rosa, Santiago, Chile
This project will digitise and relocate the Archive of the Dominican Monastery of Santa Rosa in Chile, one of the four oldest and most important…
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Selective digitisation and preservation of the photographic archive of the ‘Vasile Parvan’ Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest, Romania
The ‘Vasile Parvan’ Institute of Archaeology’s photographic archive contains about 12,000 glass-plate black-and-white negatives and positives, 5,…
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The Melvin Seiden Award: Digital documentation of endangered medieval manuscripts in individual and Vihāra collections from various Newār settlements in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Nepal is the home of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts and significant collections of Hindu manuscripts also exist, especially of the Smarta tradition…
