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Creating a digital archive of Afro-Colombian history and culture: black ecclesiastical, governmental and private records from the Choco, Colombia
This project will recover, catalogue, digitise and make freely available to researchers through the internet, approximately 100,000 ecclesiastic,…
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Preliminary survey of Arabic manuscripts in Djenné, Mali, with a view to a major project of preservation, digitisation and cataloguing
This pilot project will survey the scope and extent of the existing Arabic manuscripts of Djenné, Mali, a town which has historically equalled…
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Digital music archiving: Digital archive of North Indian classical music: phase II (special collections) and digital archive of recorded Bengali songs
The Digital Music Archiving Project is a combination of two separate projects in which technical and human resources can be best shared. The two…
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From memory to history: preserving handwritten, typed and photographic sources of Old Believers in the Danube region (18th-20th centuries)
This project aims to collect and digitise rare documents, manuscripts and photographs relating to Old Believers' (or Lipovans) lives. These…
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Creation of a digital archive of social reform movements among the Dalit and lower caste groups in Kerala, South West India
This project will carry out a survey of documents related to Dalit and lower caste social reform movements in the twentieth century Kerala, South…
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Recovering the provincial nineteenth-century press: survey of newspapers held in national and regional archives in Peru
In spite of being distant from the capital and therefore apparently removed from the politics of the country, the provincial press in nineteenth-…
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Digitisation of the manuscripts and xylographs held by the Tibetan Yungdrung Bon Library of the Menri Monastery in Dolanji, India
The Menri Monastery in northern India possesses the world's largest collection of manuscripts and block-print books relating to Bon, the pre-…
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Buddhist archive of photography, Luang Prabang, Laos - major project phase II
Previous projects undertaken through the Endangered Archives Programme discovered a surprisingly large and varied body of Theravada Buddhist…
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Digitising private collections of Acehnese manuscripts located in Pidie and Aceh Besar regencies
This project is a continuation of the previous pilot project which surveyed and located Acehnese manuscripts privately held by collectors in Pidie…
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Digitising Cirebon manuscripts
Cirebon was one of the important Islamic Sultanates in Java, together with Demak and Banten, and had been a centre for Islamic learning and 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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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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Locating and identifying Lepcha manuscripts as a first step towards their preservation
The survival of the native culture and language of the Lepcha people is endangered. Although the Lepcha people are indigenous to Sikkim in India,…
