(11 May 2023) The Library of Congress (LC) finished digitizing the Yongle Encyclopedia, “the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human…
(3 Apr 2023) The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is pleased to announce that after 5 years, the Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Conservation and Digitisation Project successfully concluded in December 2022. Generously sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Project aimed to publish online 793 manuscript copies of the Lotus Sutra from Dunhuang currently in the Stein collection…
(26 Mar 2023) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations of any type, the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit guides users from initial…
(10 Mar 2023) Perpusnas (the National Library of Indonesia) houses one of the largest collections of Indonesian newspapers in the world. Only single copies remain for most of the issues in the collection. The vast majority of these are yet to be scanned and uploaded to the library’s online platform, Khastara, which was launched in 2019. To…
(10 Mar 2023) Since 2004, the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) has helped to preserve cultural heritage and to make it available globally to as wide an audience as possible. To achieve this, grants are provided to digitise and document archives that are at risk of loss or decay, and which are located in countries where…
(9 Feb 2023) Two databases for the dissemination and study of ancient books were released in the National Library of China in Beijing on Wednesday, boosting cultural resource utilization with advanced technology. Co-developed by the National Library of China and the Research Center for Digital Humanities of Peking University, both The Yongle Canon HD Images…
(15 Sep 2022) The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) invites applications for its fifth cohort of projects designed to preserve, document, and digitize collections at-risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, inherently unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change. Funding is now available for Planning Grants to survey or inventory archival collections and for…
(13 Sep 2022) It can remain challenging for subject librarians who represent smaller programs to effectively advocate for robust digitization of their archival materials. This challenge is even more important to address when the materials in question originate from voices historically underrepresented in the archives, such as Southeast Asian communities. When selecting materials for digitization,…
(8 Sep 2022) The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism in Laos and the Asian Cultural Centre of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea are partnering to develop digital resources and capacity building in the field of culture. The project will run from 2022 to 2025 and is being funded by…
(4 Sep 2022) Compiled by a research team from Yale-NUS College, the online platform has maps from three other libraries besides the Bodleian Libraries – Singapore’s National Library Board, Leiden University Libraries and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The research team was headed by Yale-NUS urban studies professor Jane Jacobs, who said…