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16 Feb 2007
International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - Educational Links
International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK.
Self description: "The International Dunhuang Project
IDP [est. 1994 and directed by Dr Susan Whitfield - ed.] is a ground-breaking international collaboration based at the British Library to make information and images of more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites freely available. [...]
The high quality colour images and historically accurate information are searchable on the IDP DATABASE. Items are shown in context, with bibliographies, maps, photographs, site plans and other information relating to their provenance, history and present condition. This gives the scholar, the student and the layman a unique insight into Silk Road life during the first millennium AD."
Site contents [in the Educational Links section]:
* Dunhuang and the Silk Road;
* Buddhism;
* Tibetan/Nepalese Art & Manuscripts;
* E-Learning;
* Travel;
* Scripts & Languages;
* Technical links (Digitisation, Metadata, Colour Management, Infrared Photography).
The IDP site also provides links to the following site sections:
* About IDP (People, Funding, Activities, IDP Newsletter, Publications);
* Collections (British, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Other);
* Technical (Infrastructure, Resources, Links);
* Archives (IDP Newsletter; IDP papers; IDP Timeline; IDP Web);
* Site Map;
* Contact IDP;
* Search (IDP Database, Advanced Search, Bibliography Search)
* Catalogs [of the Silk Roads manuscripts]
* Maps.
URL http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/pages/education_links.a4d
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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]: under 30