From Dust to Digital
Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Much of world'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 before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inacc...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 29 novembre 2016
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8218-7626-2
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2015
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-062-8
Nombre de pages : lxviii + 654
Lisbet Rausing et Peter Baldwin
IntroductionPart I. Inscriptions
Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci et Savino di Lernia
1. The “written landscape” of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus MountainsPart II. Manuscripts
Heleen Plaisier
3. Unravelling Lepcha manuscriptsJacek Tomaszewski et Michael Gervers
4. Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, EthiopiaAnne K. Bang
5. Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, KenyaPart III. Documentary Archives
Elena Marushiakova et Vesselin Popov
7. The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapersJane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña et al.
9. Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archivesMohammed Bashir Salau
10. Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary studyPart IV. Photographic Archives
Irina Podgorny
13. A charlatan’s album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880)David G. Anderson, Mikhail S. Batashev et Craig Campbell
15. The photographs of Baluev: capturing the “socialist transformation” of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939David Zeitlyn
16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studioPart V. Sound Archives
Jane Lewisohn
18. Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and musicTjeerd de Graaf et Victor Denisov
19. The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia
Much of world'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 before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe.
From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented - including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives - and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.
Maja Kominko (dir.)

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