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===Overview=== | |||
The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of by Professor Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000. | |||
The Digital Himalaya project has three primary objectives: | |||
#. to preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes, maps and rare journals | |||
#. to make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with an accurate search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students | |||
#. to make these resources available on DVD to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected by making them both easily transportable and viewable in a digital medium | |||
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com | |||
Latest revision as of 06:25, 13 January 2006
Overview
The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of by Professor Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000.
The Digital Himalaya project has three primary objectives:
- . to preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes, maps and rare journals
- . to make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with an accurate search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students
- . to make these resources available on DVD to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected by making them both easily transportable and viewable in a digital medium