Last month EAP received material from 8 projects, taking us over the 60 terabyte storage mark. Projects EAP180 and EAP254 continued to send material, as discussed in our March and April accession posts. We also received material from:

EAP190 Digitising archival material pertaining to 'Young India' label gramophone records

This project digitised gramophone records, record catalogues and publicity material produced by the National Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd., Bombay (the 'Young India' label). Following the company's closure in 1955, surplus stock was sold, and gradually the records and associated paraphernalia dispersed. The project has located and digitised Young India material in the hands of collectors in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.

 

The recorded collection dates from 1935-1955, and includes music from various regions in India, ballads, and recordings made by important public figures.

EAP211 Digitising Cirebon Manuscripts

EAP211 is digitising endangered manuscripts located across the whole of the former Cirebon Sultanate, including Kasepuhan, Kanoman, Kacirebonan and Kaprabon, and Pengguron and Sanggar. The collections consist of religious materials, Sultan genealogies, traditional literature and chronicles, texts on healing and divining practices, and talismans.

 
Manuscript of Petarekan, including texts concerning the Order of Shatariyah, and the Nature of the Heart

EAP219 Assessment and preservation of the old Vietnamese Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient archive in ancient ideographic Nom script

This major research project will digitise the endangered Nom archive at the Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Nom is the ideographic national script of Vietnam, used since the country's independence from China in 939. However, since the general acceptance in the 1920s of the Latinised quoc ngu script, Nom has become endangered, read only by a dwindling number of scholars.

It is hoped that this project, combining inventory and digitisation and bringing a set of documents onto a web platform, will serve as a working model for future Nom archival work, facilitating further efforts to copy and preserve endangered materials.

 
 
Sutra of Five Hundred Avalokiteshvara Titles, Emperor Thanh Thai, Year of the Dog (mid summer 1898)

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