Digitizing endangered historical documents in India - SFU News - Simon Fraser University

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"I was in Mizoram as a part of a four-member pilot-project under the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), a global rescue mission for the world's most endangered historical documents. Administered by the UK's British Library and funded by Arcadia, EAP researchers have in the past seven years fanned out across the globe, armed with little more than high-resolution digital cameras and strong stomachs. From the crispy Sahara to soggy Amazonia, the Programme selects from a world of possibilities: twentieth-century Bengali street literature, nineteenth-century Siberian glass-plate photographic negatives, eighteenth-century Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts. Digitization projects operate literally all the way to Timbuktu. The stakes are high. The princess to rescue is the world's most endangered written heritage; the dragons that threaten her are called climate, conflict, critters and carelessness...."

Link:

http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2012/digitizing-endangered-historical-documents-in-india.html

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.india oa.digitization oa.bloa.south oa.south

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 11:43

Date published:

02/23/2012, 14:51