By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* Living with COVID-19 has meant curbs on travelling and the inability to attend my favourite conferences and other professional events in person. However, I discovered a positive side to being grounded. Nearer home, many professional events were being moved to a virtual environment offering great opportunities to get insights…
(Oct 2021) Professor Peter Skilling, a Khyentse Foundation Advisor and Fellow, is one of the leading scholars of the Buddhist history and literature of South and Southeast Asia. He has lived and worked in the region for nearly five decades. In 1994 he founded the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation (FPL), which archives one of the…
(18 Oct 2021) The British Library holds a small but important collection of about 120 manuscripts written in the Malay language and the Jawi (Arabic) script, originating from all over maritime Southeast Asia. These Malay manuscripts have always – in theory – been accessible publicly in the reading rooms initially of the British Museum and…
(19 Oct 2021) The newly piloted program from Springer Nature has been demonstrated to translate manuscripts into English from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese and French, the company says. In an announcement from its offices in Heidelberg and London, Holtzbrinck’s Springer Nature is saying to the scholarly community that it has auto-translation services that now…
(22 Sep 2021) On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress, asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web Archive to reflect on their experience documenting the tragedy and the…