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Digital Himalaya Project

Go to: http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/overview.php

From the website:

The Digital Himalaya Project is digitising archival collections of ethnographic information from the Himalayan region. Five major anthropological collections were selected for digitisation in the first phase of the project to reflect a range of different media and a wide coverage of geographical areas and ethnic populations from across the Himalayas. Alongside these visual and audio collections, we have more recently digitised an extensive set of back issues of Himalayan journals and maps and have created layered GIS maps of Nepal's 75 districts...

At inception in 2000, the Digital Himalaya project had three primary objectives:

1. to preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes, maps and rare journals

2. to make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with an accurate search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students

3. to make these resources available on DVD to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected by making them both easily transportable and viewable in a digital medium

Turin, Mark. 2011. Salvaging the Records of Salvage Anthropology: The story of the Digital Himalaya Project. Book 2.0. 1(1): 39-46.