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Archive of Buddhist photographs in Luang Prabang, Laos
One of the 64 Buddhist monasteries of Luang Prabang, the former Royal City of Laos, harbours a unique collection of photographic documents that few…
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A survey of the endangered court records of Nevis, West Indies
This pilot project has been generated by a multi-disciplinary, longitudinal study of the enslaved population of Mountravers, a Bristol-owned sugar…
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'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue pilot project of native peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina
The Museum of La Plata, Argentina, was established in 1884, devoted to the study of American Man. It was the first institution of this kind in…
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Preserving and digitising the documentation and resource centre of the African Publishers' Network (APNET)
The African Publishers' Network (APNET) is an association of publishers' associations in Africa which was founded in 1992. APNET'…
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Survey of endangered audio material still available with private collectors in India
This project will conduct a survey to discover what endangered audio material is held by private collectors in several locations in India. A…
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Survey and digitisation of individual manuscript collections in Northern Sri Lanka
This project aims to conduct an extensive survey of the endangered Tamil, Grantha and Sanskrit palm leaf manuscript collections in Northern Sri…
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Pages of Azerbaijan sound heritage
Azerbaijanian oral folk and traditional music is a vast and rich cultural heritage. One of its most representative and sophisticated branches is…
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'PEACH' - preserving East African co-operative heritage
This pilot project is designed primarily to identify significant endangered co-operative materials in Tanzania and investigate the potential for…
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A survey of church archives in Botswana
Botswana’s unique, interesting and long history would be incomplete without the rich documentary heritage of Churches. It goes without saying that…
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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…
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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…
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Safeguarding Gambia, Casamance and Guinea-Bissau's oral histories: the Oral History Archive at Fajara, The Gambia
This project will digitise the cassette recordings and their transcriptions located at the Oral History and Antiquities Division of the National…
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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…
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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…
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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 (…
