From dust to digital : ten years of the Endangered Archives Programme / edited by Maja Kominko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kominko, Maja, Editor.

Contributor:

Kominko, Maja, editor.

Open Book Publishers, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Library. Endangered Archives Programme.

British Library.

Archival materials--Digitization.

Archival materials.

Digital preservation.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxviii, 651 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Open Book Publishers 2015

Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented -- including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives -- and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

Preserving the past : creating the Endangered Archives Programme / Barry Supple

The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years / Anthea Case

What the Endangered Archives Programme does

Crumb trails, threads and traces : Endangered Archives and history / Maja Kominko

The "written landscape" of the central Sahara : recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains / Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci and Savino di Lernia

Metadata and endangered archives : lessons from the Ahom manuscripts project / Stephen Morey

Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts / Heleen Plaisier

Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia / Michael Gervers and Jacek Tomaszewski

Localising Islamic knowledge : acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya / Anne Bang

In the shadow of Timbuktu : the manuscripts of Djenné / Sophie Sarin

The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers / Elena Mariushakova and Veselin Popov

Sacred boundaries : parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes / Gabriela Ramos

Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives / Jane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña and Courtney J. Campbell

Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria : a preliminary study / Mohammed Bashir Salau

Murid Ajami sources of knowledge : the myth and the reality / Fallou Ngom

Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre / Qasem Abu Harb

A charlatan's album : cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) / Irina Podgorny

Hearing images, tasting pictures : making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920) / Kyle Jackson

The photographs of Baleuv : capturing the "socialist transformation" of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 / David Anderson, Mikhail S. Batashev and Craig Campbell

Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio / David Zeitlyn

Music for a revolution : the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée / Graeme Counsel

Conservation of the Iranian Gotha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music / Jane Lewihson

The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia / Tjeerd De Graaf and Victor Denisov.

Notes:

Available through Open Book Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 24, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783740659

1783740655

9782821876262

2821876262

9781783740642

1783740647

OCLC:

932311058

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access