Asia

Projects in Asia

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Collection, preservation, documentation & digitisation of ethnic recordings made in India in the acoustic recording process on shellac 78rpm gramophone records

This project catalogued and digitised musical performances on rare 78rpm records from collections in southern India. The main source of the recordings was the Gramophone Museu…

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Digital library of the Lanten textual heritage

This project aims to preserve a corpus manuscripts of unique cultural value in Lanten society. Written in Classical Chinese supplemented with the Lanten language, these manusc…

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EAP 790

Digital documentation of endangered medieval manuscripts in individual and Vihāra collections from various Newār settlements in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

The main focus of the project was to digitise rare medieval Sanskrit manuscripts, related to Buddhism and Hinduism, as well as secular topics, in Newar communities, as well as…

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Santipur and its neighbourhood: text and image production history from early modern Bengal through public and private collections. Major project

Nadia district has a long urban history stemming from the 11th century. Its settlement were places of traditional learning before the advent of European education. The documen…

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EAP766

Retrieval, cataloguing and photographic imaging of rare manuscripts, Balochistan-Pakistan

The project catalogued and digitised twelve private manuscript collections from Balochistan, in Pakistan, with materials dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The majori…

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Preservation of historic manuscripts and documents from the Tirthalal Naghabhani Collection, Nepal

The Naghabhanis were the royal treasurers of the Kathmandu Malla court. The Naghabhani Collection holds manuscripts, rubbings and copies of medieval inscriptions, as well as f…

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Survey and preservation of monastic manuscript collections in villages of Upper Myanmar

The project's objective was to survey manuscript collections in selected village monasteries in Upper Burma. From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, these sites we…

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Preservation and access for rare early Kannada books

This project preserved rare early Kannada books, that have significance for the understanding of Dravidian culture and for the creation of new knowledge about colonial South A…

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Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka

The Malay of Sri Lanka have preserved a spoken dialect and a rich writing tradition for over three centuries. Today, the manuscripts of this community are kept in private coll…

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