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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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Collection and digitisation of music in Micronesian society
In an oral society such as Micronesia, music conveys considerable information on the past even as it reflects changing cultural patterns.…
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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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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 (…
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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…
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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…
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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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Rescuing Liberian history - preserving the photographs of William VS Tubman, Liberia's longest serving President
The project aims to conserve, organise and digitise approximately 6,500 unique Tubman-era photographs, containing the only extant visual records of…
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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.…
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Archiving 'popular market' Bengali books
This project aims to archive Bengali 'popular books' - street literature targeted at a demotic, non-metropolitan public, using…
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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…
