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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
01 Sep 2006
Digital Silk Roads Project (DSR)
National Institute of Informatics (NII), The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Japan
Self-description:
"Digital Silk Roads Project is a research project for creating digital archives based on collaboration between informatics and humanities."
Site contents: * Digital Silk Roads:
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books (dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.en);
Citadel of Bam, Iran: Keeping Memories and Gathering Information for Post-earthquake Reconstruction;
Silkroad Narratives (Discovery of Civilizations of Central Asia,
Silk Roads in Rare Books);
Digital Silkroad Kids;
Silkroad Maps (Historical Map Collection:
Serindia -- Vol.5
(1. Thumbnail
2. List of Maps
3. View on Google Earth)
Innermost Asia -- Vol.4
(1. Thumbnail)
Results of a scientific mission to India and high Asia -- Atlas Part I, Part II
(1. Thumbnail);
Geographical Search:
(Map Search - Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
Silkroad GIS [in preparation]);
Gazetteer
(Digital Silk Roads Gazetteer [Google Earth]));
Silkroad Terms;
Silk Roads in Photographs;
NII Imaginary Museum DSR;
* Overview:
About the Project;
Portal Sites at NII;
Sub Projects;
Publications and Others;
Project Members;
Support;
* Symposium:
Nara Symposium [December 10 - 12, 2003];
Tokyo Symposium [December 11 -13, 2001];
[A site in JP and EN. Some sectiones are exclusively in JP - ed.]
URL http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, 50900]
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