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First Yap State Constitutional Convention audio tapes conversion project
The Federated States of Micronesia was established in 1986 with four states – Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It is a source of pride to Yapese…
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Folk Theatre Tales: Preserving images, sounds and voices of rural Tuscany
This project is based on a previous census of archives of folklore and oral history in Tuscany and its main focus is Folk Theatre. Folk Theatre in…
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Locating audiovisual ethnographic collections of expressive Andean culture in Peru
This project aims to build on a previous project to locate archives and collections of sound materials on expressive culture (music, dance,…
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Rescuing Liberian history: a pilot study to preserve and enable access to Liberia's Presidential and National Archives
This project proposal arises from a 2004 trip taken to Liberia to assess document repositories still extant after a quarter-century of civil strife…
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Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special historical collection
After 300 years of resistance to the Spanish imperial army, the Mapuche people of Araucania and the Pampas were progressively colonised by the…
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Preserving East Timor's endangered archives
This project will preserve and make accessible to researchers a rare and vulnerable body of materials related to the history of East Timor (Timor…
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Pilot project to seek, identify, contact, and report on collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranhão and Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil
This pilot project will explore small, unattended archives in two Amazon states in Brazil, Maranhão and Pará, that are related to the history of…
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Making Professor Ade Obayemi's life work available to the world
The late Professor Ade Obayemi’s lifetime collection of documents and correspondence lies in the Akodi Africa Museum he set up with his own funds…
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The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa
The project aims to make digital photographs of a rare privately-owned cache of Mongolian and Tibetan manuscripts that were spared from the…
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Preservation of rare periodical publications in Mongolia
Mongolia underwent significant political and economic changes during the collapse of communism. Along with the positive consequences of the…
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Salvage and preservation of dongjing archives in Yunnan, China: transcript, score, ritual and performance
Until a Naxi dongjing orchestra held extraordinarily successful concerts in Beijing and Paris in the 1990s, dongjing had been neglected for near…
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Bamum script and archives project: saving Africa's written heritage
At the Bamum Palace Archives – a small dusty room inside the walls of the palace – are held over 7000 documents, many of which pre-date the arrival…
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Transfer of Mosseri Genizah Archive from Paris to Cambridge University Library and its digitisation (with metadata), storage and accessibility:Stage 1
This project is a result of Cambridge University Library being presented with a unique opportunity of rescuing from a bank vault in Paris a…
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Securing of the medieval and early modern archival material (14th to 17th c.) of Brasov/Kronstadt and the Burzenland region (central Romania)
The archival material from 14th to 17th centuries from this archive is one of the main sources for Transylvanian history in todays central Romania…
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Rescuing Liberian history: preserving the personal papers of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia's longest serving President
In the abandoned library of an unoccupied mansion in Liberia, the personal papers of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia’s longest serving President,…
