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Rescue of Ancient Manuscripts by Digitisation Project |
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As far as ancient archives are concerned, the key issue for Cambodian documents, both in Cambodia and abroad, is their preservation and conservation, so that these written, painted, and to some extent printed treasures be protected from natural alteration, decomposition or simply destruction.
Of course, physical, chemical and biological conservation and restoration programmes have been undertaken long ago. But in the 1970 s. the activities of the Buddhist Institute were curtailed due to the war and they could be restarted only in 1992. Moreover restoration campaigns constitute long term and expensive operations limited to a restricted number of pieces because of the costs they generate. The present project aims at preserving the archives, if not physically, at least their content and their image by digitisation (like Scanning, digital camera and digitisation of microfilm). The second objective is to share the digitised archive material so that everyone enjoys a free access on an open Asian Archive Library. This can only further international scholarly exchanges as well as cross-checking of otherwise ignored or isolated sources. In the same spirit a couple of generations ago, several campaigns of archive microfilming were launched successfully. But those microfilm collections are not exhaustive, not easily accessible, sometimes deteriorated. The second difference with past microfilm operations and not the least is the principle to give a free and easy access to the digitised material. |
International Islamic Digital Library |
| Objectives: The International Islamic Digital Library has been established to serve as a source of information on Islam and Muslims. As a knowledge portal, it has been designed to achieve in phases the following objectives :
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Images of Southeast Asia |
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http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/ A collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library’s John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color. |
Rajah Brooke & 19th Century Sarawak | |
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This site is devoted to the study of James Brooke, Charles Brooke, and Vyner Brooke, the 'White Rajahs' of Sarawak; Sarawak history 1839-1946; and related subjects such as the Brooke family and the history of Malaysia and Borneo. It also provides a point of contact for people interested in these subjects. Updated bimonthly and edited by private researchers. |
Thai Journal Index |
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The Thai Journal Indexing Project, based at UW Libraries, is part of a cooperative initiative of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (a sub committee of the Association for Asian Studies) to strengthen access to vernacular journal literature from Southeast Asia.
This project has been funded for two years by the Association of Research Libraries, AAU/ARL Global Resouces Project. This UW pilot project uses scanning technology to capture an abstract, or an introductory paragraph of journal articles in Thai script. Searching access is provided by intellectual content analysis and transcription of names and titles into roman script. Other libraries cooperating with this project are: the Technical Information Access Center in Bangkok, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. This database will allow researchers to read enough of the article in the Thai script to determine if they wish to request a copy through interlibrary borrowing. There is currently no access in North American libraries to Thai journal indexing. |
