09 May 2001

Digital Himalaya Project
Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Supplied note: "Digital Himalaya is a pilot project [est. Dec 2000] to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. The Digital Himalaya ethnographic archive includes photographs, films, sound recordings, fieldnotes, and texts from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Indian Himalayas (including Sikkim). These materials date from the early 20th century to the present. The work of many anthropologists and travellers is represented, including Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf and Frederick Williamson. Digital Himalaya intends to make portions of these archives available on DVD and/or over Broadband Internet within the next two years. A major goal of the project is to make these historic ethnographic materials accessible to the communities from which they originated."
Site contents: Overview: Project Objectives; Collections: Film Clips and Photos; Technologies Project Team; Support; News; Links (Anthropology, Himalayan/Tibetan/Central Asian Area Studies, Digitization of Cultural Resources).
[A skeleton (to be fleshed-out) of a specialist digital library. On 10 May 2001, in response to a critical comment by the AS WWW Monitor, the site's usability was rapidly improved and it is no longer an 'aloof and research-unfriendly environment' - ed.]
URL http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/
Link reported by: Sara Shneiderman (info@digitalhimalaya.com), forwarded by Janice M. Glowski (glowski.1@osu.edu)
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