(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…
(19 Jul 2022) In August 2020, with funding from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), Ithaka S+R launched an 18-month research project to examine and assess the sustainability of these third-party digital preservation systems. In addition to a broad examination of the landscape, we more closely studied eight systems: APTrust, Archivematica, Arkivum, Islandora, LIBNOVA,…
(22 Apr 2022) The UN Library & Archives Geneva is the official repository of all documents produced or held by UN Geneva that have enduring historical and administrative values. Its’ new UN Archives Geneva Platform is available online now, providing access to the extraordinary wealth of archival documents managed by the UN Library & Archives Geneva and…
Using open source tools and Slack, these volunteers have backed up everything from the country’s historical records and census data to children’s poems and basket weaving techniques. (8 Apr 2022) Over the past month, a motley group of more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers and young children have banded together to save Ukraine’s Internet…
(23 Jan 2022) The National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) has completed the digitization of over 30,000 pages of rare Chinese books in collaboration with the libraries of Oxford University and Stanford University, the NCL said in a statement issued Sunday. The cooperation with the Stanford University Libraries focuses on the digitization of a…
(6 Dec 2021) The Australian government said it will hand more than AU$47 million to digitise and preserve at risk archive material held by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), and seven other national collecting institutions, and to maintain the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Trove website. Of the total, NFSA will receive AU$41.9 million over…
(27 Nov 2021) Some of the rarest collections including a review of the shipping system of the East-India Company of 1798, the Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science of 1872, the Madras Agricultural Journal of 1929 and some rare Tamil literary works such as “Nandanar Charithira Keerthani: Chidambarakummi of 1895 ” are just a click…
(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…