THE ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR    ISSN 1329-9778 http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Edited by: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek "The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. This timely, reliable and impartial information is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. Daily contents" summaries and evaluations published in this web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. SUBSCRIBE to the MONITOR ! 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THIS ISSUE Entries accepted for publication: 18 Entries rejected: 35 The email edition of this Journal has now over 8,800 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts. Mailing list admin. page. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database Google Search past issues of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor Search WWW Search The Monitor Coverage: 1994-2008. Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. 31 Mar 2010 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) IAFOR, Hong Kong, China / Kitanagoya Aichi, Japan. Self-description: "The International Academic Forum is a confederation of leaders and opinion formers around the globe who have one thing in common: a desire to make a difference. [...] Founded in 2009 by a group of concerned Asian, European and North American academics and business professionals, IAFOR is a mission driven organization dedicated to providing and promoting meaningful dialogue irrespective of international borders. IAFOR is committed to ensuring that Asian leaders and opinion formers in both the public and private sectors, in education, the media, and business, have the chance to meet their colleagues from other continents, and discuss issues of national and international relevance and importance." Site contents: * Mission; * Strategies; * Activities; * People; * Events (# Current IAFOR events: Jun 2010, Osaka - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities [http://acah.iafor.org/]; Jun 2010, Osaka - The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences [http://acss.iafor.org/]; Oct 2010, Osaka - The Asian Conference on Media [Information coming soon]; Oct 2010, Osaka - The Asian Business and Management Conference [http://abmc.iafor.org/]; Dec 2010, Osaka - The Asian Conference on Education [http://ace.iafor.org/]; # Past IAFOR events); * Partners; * Contact; URL http://iafor.org/ Internet Archive (web.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] Corporate Info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] NGO * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] Interesting * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 30 31 Mar 2010 Granthinam - Daniel Stender's blog on Sanskrit philology and associated issues www.danielstender.com, Hamburg, Germany. Self-description: "Granthinam - Daniel Stender's blog on Sanskrit philology and associated issues. (Open source, TeX, textual criticism, computational linguistics etc.)" Site contents: * Categories (Bibliography, Computational linguistics, E-documenting, Events, Footnotes, Manuscriptology, Open source, Sanskrit, Site report, TeX, Textual criticism, Uncategorized); * Archives (May 2009 - March 2010); * Links (Blogroll, Indology.info, Links @ SUB Goettingen, Savifa); * Recent Posts (Sanskrit manuscriptology: some basic bibliographical pointers, First steps in Paninian grammar (1), Critical editing software (on Linux), Lightweight Pdf production with Groff (1), New Van Manen Collection title list available); * Recent Comments [as of 31 Mar 2010] (Ian Sinclair on Sanskrit manuscriptology: some basic bibliographical pointers, Somadeva Vasudeva on First steps in Paninian grammar (1), Dominik Wujastyk on TeX Live 2009: LuaLaTeX rolls on Debian (and the others), Birgit Kellner on Critical editing software (on Linux), Manuel Batsching on Critical editing software (on Linux), Liz Crewtype on Lightweight Pdf production with Groff (1), Hraban on Experiences in ConTeXt (1)). * Contact; * RSSS Feed; * Search this website. URL http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Daniel Stender (daniel.stender--at--studium.uni-hamburg.de) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study / News * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000 30 Mar 2010 East Asia Integration Studies HSS & ASEM Institute for International Relations, Seoul, Republic of Korea Self-description: "East Asia Integration Studies, a online portal initiated by the Hanns-Seidel Stiftung Korea and the Seoul ASEM Institute for International Relations. The Hanns-Seidel Stiftung (HSS) [http://www.hss.or.kr/ - ed.] is working in the field of political education as it is founded as a political foundation. Its motive is 'to serve democracy, peace and development'. The mission of the foundation varies among the countries which were chosen for continuous projects. So one aspect of the project in the Republic of Korea is to transfer knowledge about the recunification in Germany to Koreans - particularly to those near the demilitarized zone." Site contents: * News; * Discussion List [asianintegration--at--discussions.asianintegration.org]; * Book Reviews; * Articles (# Mercosur-South Korea: The feasibility of a Free Trade Agreement, Feb 2010, by Rita Barbieri & Natalia Pedrozo; # Competition among China, Japan and Korea to woo ASEAN, Jun 2009, by Kim Jae Cheol; # Economic integration in Northeast Asia -- preconditions and possible trajectories, Jul 2008, by Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Foundation in Seoul, Korea; # The optimum size of East Asian economic integration and the role of Korea, Jul 2008; # ASEAN plus three (China, Japan, Korea) -- towards an economic union in East Asia? Aug 2007, edited by Karl-Peter Schoenfisch and Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Stiftung, Seoul -- Singapore); * Advisory Council; * Editors; * Community; * Links (International and Multilateral Organizations, Research Institutes, Journals and other related Sites, A Database of scholars and (graduate) students who are working with East Asian Integration); * About; * Contact Us; * Search; * General Information (Recent Bibliography of East Asian Regionalism and Integration: 2007-2010 [a PDF document,156KB], Links, Get your Review published here, Participating at the Discussions); * Recently updated (Article upload, First 2010 Book Reviews, New reviews for October, New on-line article published, New Reviews); * RSS Feed; * Related Institutes. URL http://www.asianintegration.org Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asianintegration.org Link reported by: Bernhard Seliger (seliger--at--hss.or.kr), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News / Study * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO/Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100 29 Mar 2010 Brill E-Books - Asian Studies Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. Self-description: "As a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences Brill now introduces its E-book collections. The Brill e-book collections are divided into seven broad subject categories that are offered separately. [1] Asian Studies E-Books Online - Coverage: China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, History, Archeology, Sociology, Anthropology, Religion, Philosophy, Languages. [2] Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online. [Coverage: ...] [3] Classical Studies E-Books Online. [...] [4] European History and Culture E-Books Online. [...] [5] Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online. [...] [6] Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online. [...] [7] Social Sciences E-Books Online. [...] The e-books will be published as annual collections by copyright year." Site contents: * About; * Help; * Contact; * Login; * Search (Quick Search, Advanced Search); * Browse Options [Asian Studies] (Sort by Author (A-Z), Sort by Date (descending), Sort by Title (A-Z) [Bibliographical details, TOCS and online access (for a fee) to 132 electronic titles, incl.:] # Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 4 - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Year by Year: W. Spink, 2009, # Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet, M.L. Walter, 2009, # The China Economy Yearbook: Analysis and Forecast of China's Economy, J. Chen, 2009, # Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China: Ethos, Theory and Practice, A. Thrasher, 2008, # Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore, Lian Kwen Fee and Tong Chee Kiong, 2008 # The Sojourner Community: Japanese migration and residency in Australia, T. Mizukami, 2007, # Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology, A. Slaczka, 2007, # Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran, M.E. Subtelny, 2007. * Other Subjects (Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity (196 titles), Classical Studies (102), European History and Culture (331), Middle East and Islamic Studies (93), Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy (85), Social Sciences (86)) URL http://ebooks.brillonline.nl/subject?sort=date¤t_page=1&id=ASEB Internet Archive (web.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] Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Business * 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 26 Mar 2010 Publishing with Brill - Asian Studies Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. Self-description: "Brill is an established [over 325 years of experience - ed.] scholarly publisher with a reputation for publishing books of excellent quality and academic distinction. We currently publish over 600 books per year, 135 journals and online products including e-books. [Src: http://campaigns.emailserver2.com/MBDT/WebformListener.aspx?vid=221470]." Site contents: * Featured Title; * New 2010 Asian Studies Catalog (PDF, Excel Listing); * Highlighted Titles [# Bibliographical details, # Table of contents, # Readership, # About the author(s), # View this book at Google Book Search, # Link to the online shop] (Incl. in Mar 2010,: # Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China, Paolo Santangelo; # Statecraft and Classical Learning The Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, Edited by Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern; # Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond, Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein and Sam van Schaik); * Catalogs and Downloads (PDF, Excel Listing, # Brill's Korean Studies Library - New Series 2010, # Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks, # Chinese Overseas - New Series 2010, # Encyclopedia of Hinduism, # Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War - 2010, # Korean Yearbook, # Modern Chinese Philosophy - New Series 2010, # Religion in China, # Religion in Chinese Societies - New Series 2010, # Social Scientific Studies in Reform Era China - New Series 2010); * Journals [As of Mar 2010, bibliographical and subscription details of 11 journals]. * Asian Studies Blog, News and Press, Quiz! * Reviews; * Asian Studies E-Bulletin (Archives: 2010: February, January. 2009: December, November, October); * Contact; * Links (incl. Brill's China Page [http://www.brill.nl/china]; * Conferences and Events [Asian Studies worldwide]; * Feedback; * Search (Catalog, Website). URL http://www.brill.nl/asianstudies Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Dr Dagmar Vermeer (vermeer--at--brill.nl) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Corporate info./ News * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Business * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 30 26 Mar 2010 Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) SEARCA, Laguna, Philippines. Self-description: "The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) was established by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) in 1966 primarily 'to provide to the participating countries high quality graduate study in agriculture; promote, undertake, and coordinate research programs related to the needs and problems of the Southeast Asian region; and disseminate the findings of agricultural research and experimentation.' [...] SEARCA builds human, social, and institutional capital in Southeast Asia by providing opportunities for high-quality graduate education, research, scholarship, training, knowledge exchange, and project development and management in agriculture and rural development. [...] Current [i.e. July 2009 - June 2014] Priority Themes: #Natural Resource Management, #Agricultural Competitiveness." Site contents: * About SEARCA (Vision & Priorities, Organization, Funding, History, Directories, Annual Report); * Graduate Scholarship; * Short-term Training; * Research & Development; * Knowledge Management; * Project Development; * Announcements; * Search; * Online forms (Scholarship application, Travel Grant, Professorial Chair, PhD Res. Scholarship, Seed Fund: Res.&Training, UC Thesis Grant, Visiting Res.Fellowship, Adjunct Res.Fellowship, Conference registration, Facilities reservation); * SEARCA Directory (Officials & Staff, Research Fellows, Alumni, Others); * SEARCA Intranet; * Contact us; * News; * Conferences; * Publications [details of paper publications]; * Articles, Discussion Papers, Lectures [online copies of] (Incl. the latest four papers: #Pathways Out of Rural Poverty: Is Agrarian Reform Passe? by Arsenio M. Balisacan, Jul 2009; #Grounding Science Communication: Experiences and Lessons from the Biotechnology Information Center (BIC) in the Philippines by Sonny P. Tababa, et.al., May 2009; #Aerobic Composting of Agricultural and Municipal Solid Wastes and its Relevance on Global Warming and Ecological Solid Waste Management by Prof. Casiano S. Abrigo, Jr., Nov 2008; #Towards Adaptive and Social Learning in a Science and Nature University by Ma. Celeste H. Cadiz, Dec 2008); * Grants; * Trainings/Fora; * Convention facilities; * SEARCA websites (#The Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (AJAD) http://www.searca.org/ajad/, #Biotechnology Information Center, #Biodiversity Research Programme); * Partner websites (#AAACU: Asian Assoc of Agricultural Colleges & Universities http://www.aaacu.searca.org/, #RSFA: SEARCA Graduate Alumni, #Univ. Consortium, #LandCare, #SGP-PTF: Small Grants Programme for Operations To Promote Tropical Forests). URL http://www.searca.org/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.searca.org/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Corporate info. / Study / News * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 3,000 25 Mar 2010 Russian and Caspian Energy Developments (RUSSCASP) RUSSCASP, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Lysaker, Norway. Self-description: "RUSSCASP is a publicly funded research program aimed at producing knowledge on long-term Russian and Caspian oil & gas developments. RUSSCASP focuses on three strategically important issue clusters: * Russia and the Caspian region as arenas for foreign energy companies. * Driving forces and conditions for Russian and Caspian energy exports. * Energy developments in the Russian high north. RUSSCASP is executed by a consortium consisting of three Norway-based research institutions [Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Econ Poeyry (a consulting company) - ed.] and most of the results produced within the programme are made available to the public on this website." Site contents: * About; * Research (Russia and the Caspian region as arenas for foreign energy companies, Driving forces and conditions for Russian and Caspian energy exports, Energy developments in the Russian high north, Control of the oil and gas industries and revenue streams, Concern for the energy balance, The link between energy and foreign policy); * Publications ("Browse RUSSCASP publications, ordered by: # Topic (Oil and gas developments in Russia, Oil and gas developments in the Caspian region); # Type (Academic publications [links to 26 articles/chapters in scholarly journals and books, Commentary articles and other non-academic external publications, RUSSCASP Working Papers [26 working papers, PDF format, since may 2008 - ed.], Research notes and other self-published products, Presentations"); * Activities; * Media [media appearances by RUSCCASP researchers on RUSSCASP-related topics and media coverage of RUSSCASP project activities]; * Research team; * Contact; * Internal pages. URL http://www.fni.no/russcasp/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Study / Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 100 24 Mar 2010 Sanskrit Manuscripts at the PENN [University of Pennsylvania] Library University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, PA, US. Self-description: " Sanskrit Manuscripts at the PENN Library - The University of Pennsylvania holds the largest number of South Asian manuscripts in North America. See the following page [The Penniman-Gribbel Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/vanpelt/collections/sasia/sktmss.htm - ed.] for a short description of the collection. Also go to manuscript list page [Listings of Indic Manuscripts at PENN - http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/skt-mss/mssdata/index.html - ed.] to see which manuscripts we have made electronically available. Electronic Indic Manuscripts - A number of manuscripts from the collection are now available in electronic format at this site. We are always adding new items from the collection to this site, so check here regularly. [...] Manuscripts are classified according to the Census of Poleman below. For each entry there is a title, Poleman No. and UPENN No. [...] Each manuscript has its own descriptive page [With the following fields: Title; Manuscript Numbers; Author; Subject Matter; Script; Manuscript date; Number of folios; Number of lines; Manuscript material; Manuscript dimensions; Manuscript condition; Name of scribe; General comments; Name of cataloger; Date cataloged; Description from Poleman; Notes - ed.]. Each "page" is a folio image. Images of manuscript are scanned with 75dpi resolution unless otherwise noted." Site contents: * Table of the electronic Indic manuscripts (Fields of the table listing 32 digitised (as of March 2010) manuscripts: [MS] Major Division, [MS] Subdivision, Title [and an electronic link to JPG images of the manuscript], Poleman No., PENN No., MS date (AD)); * List of Indic Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Library; * Glossary of terms used in the Sanskrit Manuscripts section. URL http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/skt-mss/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. Access to the site has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt - ed.] Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Library * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 100 23 Mar 2010 Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP), Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS), Monterey, CA, US. Self-description: "Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) is an approximately bi-monthly compendium of news and analysis on politics involving Islam in the former Soviet Union. The main focus for the present is Russia's North Caucasus. However, IIPER seeks submissions on politics and Islam in other regions of not less than 1,000 words and no more than 5,000 words in length. To be placed on the mailing list to recieve IIPER please send an email request to gordon.hahn--at--miis.edu. IIPER is posted bimonthly on the website of the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS) Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP) at [the URL below]." Site contents [downloadable documents in Word format - ed.]: * IIPER #1 : Sheik Said Abu Saad Buryatskii: New Basaev of the Caucasus; * IIPER #2 : The Caucasus Emirate's New Groove: The 2009 Summer Offensive; * IIPER #3 : The Caucasus Emirate's Return to Suicide Bombing and Mass Terrorism; * IIPER #4 : The Caucasus Emirate Returns to the 'Far Enemy'?: The 'Nevskii Express' Bomb; * IIPER #5 : Buryatskii, Istishkhad, and the Riyadus-Salikhin Suicide Martyrs' Battalion; * IIPER #6 : Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi and the Caucasus Emirate / The Dzhaniev Affairs; * IIPER #7 : The Caucasus Emirate's 'Year of the Offensive' in Figures: Data and Analysis; * IIPER #8 : Comparing the Level of Caucasus Emirate Terrorist Activity in 2008 and 2009; * IIPER #9 - Who Was Mr. Seif Islam?; * IIPER #10 - Said Abu Saad Buryatskii Killed. * Contact; * Monterey WMD Terrorism Database [Self-description: "[...T]he largest open source catalog of worldwide incidents involving the acquisition, possession, threat and use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by sub-state actors. [...T]he database includes more than 1,100 incidents -- from 1900 to the present -- that relate to the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials as possible weapons. The database is updated regularly based on data captured from hundreds of monitored sources -- including news services, academic and trade journals, government reports, books, conferences proceedings, Internet sites and unpublished sources -- in a variety of languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Korean, Russian and Spanish." Access to the database holdings is restricted to: (a) federal, state and local government employees of the United States; (b) serving members of the U.S. armed forces; (c) approved applicants from other walks of life - ed.]. URL http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/skt-mss/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 30 19 Mar 2010 Collections of Japanese Art Online and in Print [a register] East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, NY, US. Self-description: "Collections of Japanese Art Online and in Print, By Rosina Buckland, January 2001 (with some updates for late 2005 by Henry Smith)." Site contents: * Information and Images On-line (Japanese sites with images and/or database, Sites outside Japan with images and/or database, Other sites); * Published Information (Catalogues in Japan, Catalogues outside of Japan, Selections of masterpieces). URL http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/00art_images_buckland.htm Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/00art_images_buckland.htm 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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 100 18 Mar 2010 [On] the digitization of Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer's [India 1950-1992] slide collection The Virtual Library South Asia (SAVIFA), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Self-description: "Folk gods, memorial stones, pastoral communities and temples -- the digitization of Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer's slide collection - In 1977 Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-1992) became a professor of the Religious History of South Asia with a special emphasis on Hinduism at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, where he also taught traditional law, Marathi language and literature. [...] When Sontheimer died, the library of the South Asia Institute obtained this collection alongside with his tape recordings, films and manuscripts. Now, after more than 15 years and funded by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context -- Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows", the whole collection has been digitized and is now accessible through the image database HeidICON. [See the Database of G.D. Sontheimer's images from India 1950-1992 http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ - ed.] Sontheimer's major concern was to make evident the continuity, interrelation and mutual impact of classical high and folk culture. He used art, art history, archaeology, modern languages and dialects, written records as well as oral traditions to understand the culture and religious life of the "common people", especially the pastoral communities of the Deccan plateau. [...]." Site contents * Alphabetical Index of Place Names in the Sontheimer Slide Collection [link to a PDF document, 371 KB]; * Catalog to the Sontheimer Slide Collection in Numerical Order [link to a PDF document, 164 KB]; * List of Deities depicted in the Sontheimer Slide Collection [link to a PDF document, 154 KB]; * Front door of HeidICON; * Direct link to EXC Sontheimer in HeidICON [http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/module/extlinks.php/pool/exc_sontheimer]; * EXC Sontheimer introduction and contact information. * New ([Savifa] Home, Newsletter ['Masala' - the quartely newsletter of Savifa: http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/newsletter_en.html ; Latest issue by mid March 2010 is Vol. 5, No 1, January 2010; Past issues archived at: http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/newsletter_archiv_en.html], New Acquisitions); * Search ([Savifa] Metasearch, SavifaGuide, OLC-Article Databases, E-Journals [a portal to over 200 Asian Studies' e-journals ranging from 'Ancient Nepal (Aeltere Jahrgaenge)' through 'Journal of Bhutan Studies' and 'Tibet Press Watch' to 'Zeitschrift fuer Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG)' - ed.], Databases, Document Server, Digital Collections, E-Toc-Alert Service, Document Delivery Service); * Interactive [Savifa] (Publishing, Directory of South Asia Scholars [Under 'New Entry' you have the possibility to enter your own research profile - ed.], Thematic Portals [incl. Varanasi Displayed, Cultural flows between South Asia and Europe, Health and Healing in South Asia, Urban History Documentation Archive of the CSSSC - Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta], Suggest a Website, Comments); * About Savifa (Special Subject Collection, Project Description, Partners, Publications). [A bi-lingual (DE,EN) website] URL http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/thematicportals/cultural_flows_gallery.html Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Sonja Stark-Wild (sonja.stark-wild--at--urz.uni-heidelberg.de) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Study / Corporate info./ Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other] Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30] under 30 17 Mar 2010 JAANUS - Terminology of Japanese Architecture and Art History Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo, Japan. Self-description: "JAANUS [Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System - ed.] is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by [late - ed.] Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent [The author of 'The Roof in Japanese Buddhist Architecture', Kajima/Weatherhill, 1983. Her biographical details are published at http://www.aisf.or.jp/%7Ejaanus/parent.html - ed.]. [...] This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). Terms from related fields such as lacquer, ceramics, textiles and metalwork have been included where they are considered to be of general interest and/or impact on the principal fields of architecture, painting and sculpture. These definitions are not translations from any one Japanese monolingual dictionary, but have been collated from a range of specialist sources and scholarly publications, and from direct observation and study. Many have never before been defined in English. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order, the romanized term is followed by Japanese characters and a definition in English. [...] Different meanings or usages of the same term are listed numerically; 1, 2, 3 etc., but terms whose meaning differs in art history and architecture are treated as separate dictionary entries." Site contents * Search [by romanized Japanese entry or any English word in definitions of entries]; * Browse alphabetically [The JAANUS database structure: romanized ENTRY (Heading, Category, Definition, References, External Links, Notes, Illustration - if available) - KANJI - REMARKS [i.e. an alternative entry/cross-reference]. Entries range from 'abarawari', 'abaraya', and 'aboshigaki', through 'kabe', 'kabechuumon', and 'kabedoko', to 'zutou', 'zuzou', and 'Zuzoushou']; * Contact us [an email input form]. * Credits (Organizations, Benefactors, Advisors, Contributors). URL http://www.aisf.or.jp/%7Ejaanus/ Internet Archive (web.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] Study * 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] under 3,000 16 Mar 2010 Database of G.D. Sontheimer's images from India 1950-1992 HeidICON image database, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Supplied note: "Guenther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-1992), professor of Religious History of South Asia with a special emphasis on Hinduism at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, made more than 22.000 slides in his thirty years of research. They portray everyday life and rituals of the common people, the peasants, the pastoral communities and ethnic minorities in India and in particular in Maharshtra. This quite extraordinary collection of pictures - the oldest were taken in the late 1950s, the latest shortly before his death in 1992- has been digitized and is now accessible through the image [online] database HeidICON. This project was funded by the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows'. - ssw" Self-description: "This rich collection now provided with metadata is freely accessible at Heidelberg University's HeidICON database. It is particularly of interest for Indologists, Anthropologists and scholars of Religious Studies, but also for anyone interested in traditional Indian religious and ritual culture. Thanks to the metadata, the collection can be searched for places, feasts, dates or deity names. [See http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/news/detail/m/cluster-digitizes-22000-anthropoly-slides.html - ed.]" Site contents * Search/Browse [via 'EXC Sontheimer' pool]; * Expert search/Refine search [The metadata are labelled as follows: Titel/Objekt; Detail / Element; Artist/Author; Ort/Gebauude; Storage Place; Inv.Nr./Sign.; Description; Period; Lok. Systematik; Material/Technik; Format/Masse; Fundort; Fundkontext; Production Region; Date; Pool; Kommentar; Bildnachweis; Copyright - with the majority of information being recorded in English - ed.] [A bi-lingual (DE,EN) website] URL http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ [select free access via "Gast/Guest" button - ed.] Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Sonja Stark-Wild (sonja.stark-wild--at--urz.uni-heidelberg.de) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide] Documents * 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] under 30 15 Mar 2010 2010 Melbourne Conference on China, Jul 2010. Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia Self-description: "Announcement and Call for Papers 2010 Melbourne Conference on China: Chinese Elites and their Rivals -- Past, Present and Future Date: Monday, 19 July and Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Venue: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Organiser: Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne Print: The Programme (To be available after 1 June 2010) Following the success of the 2009 Melbourne Conference on China [http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2009/index.html - ed.], The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne is pleased to announce the 2010 Melbourne Conference on China, to be held at the University of Melbourne on Monday, 19 July 2010 and Tuesday, 20 July 2010. We welcome researchers, specialists, policy makers, policy advisers and educators working in anywhere in the world and in any area of China studies to come to [...] Melbourne, [...] to explore the various questions posed by the ongoing and rapid changes that have affected Chinese elite groups and their rivals in the past, the present and, most importantly, in the future. [...] Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday, 30 April 2010, to the following email address: Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au [...] Submission of abstracts: Friday, 30 April 2010, Notification of acceptance: Friday, 14 May 2010." URL http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2010/index.php Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Dr Gao Jia (jia--at--unimelb.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info. * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 11 Mar 2010 Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Self-description: "This document [est. Sep 2008] is a part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html]. It keeps track of leading on-line collections of still images of value/significance to researchers in Asian and Pacific Studies. Please mail tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au if you know of relevant information resource not in this list." Site contents [annotated links to 93 online collections as of 11 Mar 2010]: * Afganistan Old Photos (www.orientalarchitecture.com, US); * Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * Asian Historical Architecture (www.orientalarchitecture.com, US); * Beato, Felice. c. 1860. Album of Photographic Views in China. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Boerschmann, Ernst. 1926. Baukunst und Landschaft in China. [Architectural Arts and Landscapes in China]. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Bond Photograph Library (Digital South Asia Library, U. Chicago, US); * Bucklin China Archive (www.bucklinchinaarchive.com, Auburndale, MA, US); * Cambodian Genocide Program - Photographs (Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale U., US); * China 1972 [Cultural Revolution] Image Database (Dept. of Political Science, Wellesley College, MA, US); * China: Exploring the Interior, 1903-1904 (www.chinaexhibit.org, Sargentville, ME, US); * Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA) (Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia); * The Cities/Buildings Database (U. of Washington, Seattle, US); * Colonial Pictorial Works Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * Contemporary Photos of Central Asia - Views of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Khyber Pass, Peshawar and Kabul (Thomas Cole Antique Rugs and Textiles, San Francisco, CA, US); * Digital Himalaya Project (Dept of Social Anthropology, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK); * Doing Photography And Social Research In The Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948 - 1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir (The Ohio State U. Libraries, Columbus, OH, US); * [The Dutch East Indies in] Colonial World Fairs (The Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands); * The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940 (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands); * Early Postcards of India and Ceylon (www.harappa.com, San Francisco, CA, US); * The East Asian [Digital] Collection (U. of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, US); * Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 (South Asian Diaspora, South/Southeast Asia Library, UC Berkeley, US); * The Empire that was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US); * The Faces of Irregular Migrants [from Asia] Photograph Collection (The Asian Library, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada); * The French Institute of Pondichery (IFP) - Photo Archives (IFP, Pondicherry, India); * Four Months of War, Shanghai 1937 (www.japan-guide.com); * Fusazo, Sugi'e. 1910. Souvenir of Nanking. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Fuerer-Haimendorf Collection (School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, UK); * Gandhi Photos Collection (Asia Collection, U. of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * The Gertrude Bell Project (U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK); * Giles Pickford Collection including the Boxer Uprising (June-August 1900) (The Australian National U. (ANU) Library, Canberra, Australia); * The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection (Brown U., Providence, RI, US); * The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) Photos (U. of Hawaii Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 (The Harvard College Library, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * High-definition Image Database of Old Photographs of Japan (The Nagasaki U. Library, Nagasaki, Japan); * Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) - Photographic Archives (Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY, US); * His Imperial Majesty's Shoot in Nepalese Terai December, 1911 (The Australian National U. (ANU) Library, Canberra, Australia); * Historic Camel Photos - Central Asia and Russia (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Camel Photos - China, Mongolia and India (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Camel Photos - Middle East Camels (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Chinese Architecture in Singapore (nanyangtemple.wordpress.com, Singapore); * Historical Photographs of China (School of Humanities, U. of Bristol, UK & Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon, France); * Historical Photos of Central Asia - Images of Life in Central Asia (Thomas Cole Antique Rugs and Textiles, San Francisco, CA, US); * The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art (College of the Arts, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH, US); * Indian Raj British Indian Photography 1845-1947 (www.harappa.com, San Francisco, CA, US); * Indonesia Independent - Photographs 1947-1953 (Netherlands Museum for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands); * The Islamic Gallery: Photos and Artwork (Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP), Spring Lake Park, MN, US); * Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (U. of Nagasaki Library, Japan); * Keagle Photograph Library (Digital South Asia Library, U. Chicago, US); * Korean War Historical Images (IMCOM-Korea Photo Collections, The Installation Management Command-Korea Region (IMCOM), US Army Korea); * The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 (Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington DC, US); * Magic Lantern [Japanese] Slides Collection (U. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, US); * Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service (GandhiServe Foundation, Berlin, Germany); * Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * Micronesia Over the Years (Micronesia Seminar, Federated States of Micronesia); * Moluccan History and Culture in Pictures (The Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM), Utrecht, The Netherlands); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Album of Hongkong Canton Macao Amoy Foochow. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Photographic Views of Canton. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Views of China. Vol. 1-2. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Mumm, Freiherr Alfons, von Schwarzenstein. 1902?. Ein Tagebuch in Bildern. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary) (www.nankingatrocities.net, US); * [The Nineteenth c. Images of] Formosa (Reed College, Portland, OR, US); * Old Images of Asia (www.imagesofasia.com, Chennai, India & San Francisco, CA, US); * Pakistan: Historic Karachi (www.worldisround.com, US); * Photographs of Past and Present - Digital Silk Road (Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan); * Photos of Tibet in the early 1940's (Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, US); * Picture Paradise - Asia-Pacific photography 1840s-1940s (The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, Australia); * Pictures from Tibet (www.iem.pw.edu.pl, Poland); * Pioneer Photography from the [19th c.] Dutch Indies (Prentenkabinet / Study and Documentation Centre for Photography (SDCF), U. Library of Leiden, The Netherlands); * RAWA Photo Gallery: Afghanistan from 1992-2008 (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Pakistan); * Rare Photos Capture China's 19th Century Tea Trade (Harvard Business School, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China (The Harvard College Library, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * The Rinden Kanost Collection: China and Japan (Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS), Colorado Springs, CO, US); * Sagimaro, Kojima. 1909. Views and Custom of North China. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Sanshichiro, Yamamoto. 1906. Peking. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Shackford Collection of Photographs of China (Asia Collection, U. of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * Sidney D. Gamble Photographs (Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke U., Durham, NC, US); * Silk Road in Photographs (Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan); * [South Asia and South East Asia] Photo Collection (The Kern Institute of Indology, U. of Leiden, The Netherlands); * SouthEast Asian images & Texts (U. of Wisconsin Libraries, UW-Madison, WI, US); * Southern Uzbekistan Historical Database: Image Library (Termez Archaeological Museum, Termez, Uzbekistan); * Subic Bay Naval Base, Republic of the Philippines (www.subicbaypi.com, US); * Svadesh videsh - Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections (India Office Collection, British Library, London, UK); * Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images - Contemporary Transformations of China (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images, Ithaca, NY, US); * Thomas, G.H - An American in China: 1936-1939 (Greatrix Press, New York, US); * The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 (The Pitt Rivers Museum, U. of Oxford, UK); * Tibet - American Geographical Society Library (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * Turkestanskii Al'bom (Photo Album of 19th Century Russian Turkistan) (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US); * Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925 (Burke Museum, U. of Washington, Seattle, US); * Virtual Shanghai - Shanghai Urban Space in Time (virtualshanghai.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr, France); * The Virtual Museum of Cham Architecture, Vietnam (onthe.net.au, Australia); * Wilfred Thesiger Web Gallery (The Pitt Rivers Museum, U. of Oxford, UK); URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html Internet Archive (web.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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 08 Mar 2010 [Annotated] Bibliography of Performing Arts in the East' (in Western languages) asia-perfo-arts.com, Ramat Gan, Israel. Supplied note: "The commented [i.e. annotated - ed.] 'Bibliography of Performing Arts in the East' (in Western languages) [with over 47,000 records - ed.] is dedicated to the visual performing arts in Asia and Oceania. It covers in full: theatre, dance, puppetry, plays, and masks; while cinema, television, circus, and martial arts are selected [listed selectively - ed.]; music is included only when connected with theatre or dance [performances - ed.]. The contents are divided as follows: * China (over 9,900 entries); * Japan (over 8,200 entries); * Korea (over 1,900 entries); * Indonesia (over 4,000 entries); * Other countries in Southeast Asia [but excluding Indonesia - ed.] (over 4,300 entries); * India (over 12,100 entries); * Other countries in South and Central Asia [but excluding India - ed.] (over 1,800 entries); * West Asia [only traditional arts - ed.] (over 1,400 entries); * Oceania [including New Zealand's Maoris and Australian Aborigines - ed.] (over 3,500 entries). There are [also] selective [search] tools - by title, author, year, and also the possibility of asking for a word or string of characters. The selection can be reorganized by alphabet or by publication year. [Access to these advanced features requires prior FREE registration and a login - ed.] Each entry's contents are detailed. Whenever possible, the comments are [made of] short self-explaining extracts from the works themselves. The reviews have been added. The publication is dynamic, and will be updated at frequent intervals. Any additions, corrections and comments will be highly appreciated. The mailing address is hadary.alex-at--gmail.com - ah." URL http://asia-perfo-arts.com/ [A steadily expanding 'opus magnum' - ed.] Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Alex Hadary (hadary.alex--at--gmail.com) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 05 Mar 2010 Regional Starting Points: Asia LLEK.de Bookmarks - scientific-search-engines.com, Berlin, Germany. Self-description: [The LLEK.de website does not describe the purpose/methodology of its online activities. Regional Starting Points: Asia was last updated in April 2007 - ed.] Site contents: * Media Directories Asia (Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, TV, News, Search Engines, Travel Information); * Asia related Academic Resources (Repositories, E-Journals, Libraries, Literature, Museums, Maps, Universities, Images, Wikis & Encyclopedias, Blogs & Forums) * Asia related catalogs of scientific search engines (German, English, LLEK); * Additional starting points (History / Archaeology, Culture / Society, Nature / Environment, Politics / Economics, Sites of special interest, Maps / GIS / Remote Sensing). URL http://llek.de/english/regional/asia/asienstart_e.htm [A bi-lingual (DE, EN) website] Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://llek.de/english/regional/asia/asienstart_e.htm 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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 02 Mar 2010 Traditional Knowledge in Kyrgyzstan Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Self-description: "The Traditional Knowledge in Kyrgyzstan website is the first internet resource which contains information on traditional knowledge, including traditional spiritual practices, traditional knowledge of sustainable natural resource exploitation, traditional administration and law, folk systems of discipline and many more subjects. The website is oriented not only for data storage, but also to offer a forum for actively sustaining the use of traditional knowledge: exchange, transmission, discussion and study." Site contents: * Introduction; * Traditional Spiritual Practices (Sacred sites, Rituals, Kyrgyzchylyk, Manaschylyk, Sacred capacity and medicine); * Traditional Ecological Knowledge [under the construction]; * Traditional Knowledge about the Formation and Control of Society, Family and Economy [under the construction]; * Photo Gallery (#Sacred sites: Talas province, Ysyk-Kol province, Jalal-Abad province, #Rituals: Sham jaguu, Tuloo, Zikir chaluu, Kurmandykka chaluu (Sacrificing), Uluu Ot (Sacred Fire), #People and everyday life, #Fieldwork research: Issyk-Kul, Jalal-Abad,Talas, #Everyday [material] culture); * Video Catalog [accessible to registered users only]; * Glossary [under the construction]; * About Aigine; * Registration; * Search [the website]; * My Profile; * News; * Links. URL http://tk.aigine.kg [A tri-lingual (KG, RU, EN) website] Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Aida A. Alymbaeva (alymbaeva--at--gmail.com), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/ Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 Copyright (c) 2010 by T. Matthew Ciolek URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html