From Dust to Digital Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
"Much of worldâ s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost bef...
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Cambridge, U.K
Open Book Publishers
2015
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- Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of illustrations List of recordings Notes on contributors Introduction Preserving the past: The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years What the Endangered Archives Programme does Crumb trails, threads and traces: 1.: The “written landscape” of the central Sahara: 2.: Metadata and endangered archives: 3.: Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts 4.: Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia 5.: Localising Islamic knowledge: 6.: In the shadow of Timbuktu: 7.: The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers 8.: Sacred boundaries: 9.: Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives 10.: Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: 11.: Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: 12.: Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre 13.: A charlatan’s album: 14.: Hearing images, tasting pictures: 15.: The photographs of Baluev: 16.: Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio 17.: Music for a revolution: 18.: Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music 19.: The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia Index Back Matter
- 18. Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music -- 19. The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia -- Index
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of recordings -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme -- The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years -- What the Endangered Archives Programme does -- Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history -- 1. The "written landscape" of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains -- 2. Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom Manuscripts Project -- 3. Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts -- 4. Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia -- 5. Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya -- 6. In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné -- 7. The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers -- 8. Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes -- 9. Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives -- 10. Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study -- 11. Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality -- 12. Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre -- 13. A charlatan's album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) -- 14. Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills district, Northeast India (1870-1920) -- 15. The photographs of Baluev: capturing the "socialist transformation" of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 -- 16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio -- 17. Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée