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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… -
Archiving 'popular market' Bengali books
This project aims to archive Bengali 'popular books' - street literature targeted at a demotic, non-metropolitan public, using… -
Thai rainbow archives project: a digitised collection of Thai gay, lesbian and transgender publications
The emergence of open gay, lesbian, and transgender (GLT) cultures in major world cities is a sociologically significant phenomenon. The Thai… -
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… -
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… -
Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Oriental Studies holds 4,600 manuscripts and 3,765 block-prints in the Tangut language, the largest collection worldwide. The… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Inventory of archival holdings in Jamaica
The targeted libraries and archives contain valuable historical collections that focus on the lives of enslaved Africans and free blacks in Jamaica… -
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… -
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 (… -
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.… -
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… -
Digitisation of Bolivian indigenous communities records on ayllu structure, tax and land tenure
This project aims to digitise and microfilm 163,000 pages of the records of the indigenous population who lived in communities and large private…