Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust (KVPT)

http://www.kvptnepal.org/


08 Feb 2010

Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust (KVPT)

Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, Lalitpur, Nepal & New York, NY, US.

Self-description:
"Our purpose is to safeguard the extraordinary and threatened architectural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley. With seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites in its relatively tiny domain, the Kathmandu Valley boasts a concentration and quality of architectural monuments and townscapes of significance to all humanity. [...] Over the last thirteen years, the Trust has rescued over two dozen significant monuments. Repair and restoration operations have initiated key training and research programs for our Nepalese team. The Trust headquarters on Patan Darbar Square has become a training centre and clearinghouse for information about historic preservation in Nepal. Most notably, the Trust has rallied a significant donor base among Nepalese businesses and individuals-matching funding is thus the norm for most of our restoration projects. The Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust is the only international non-government agency registered in the field of cultural heritage in Nepal. The Trust is based in the U.S. with full U.S. tax-deductible status."

Site contents:
* Mission (Patan Campaign, Heritage at Risk, Living Monuments, Tradition, Conservation Challenges, KVPT's Nepalese Team, Global Dialogue);
* Projects (COMPLETED PROJECTS: # Ayuguthi Sattal (18th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1999-2001), # Balkumari Temple (17th c.), Stone Lions, Patan (2002), # Chobar Ganesh (17th c.), Kathmandu (1998), # Documentation of Architectural Heritage of Kathmandu Valley (1993-97), # Garden of Dreams (20th c.), Keshar Mahal, Kathmandu (2001), # Gokarna Parvati Temple (16th c.), Gokarna, Kathmanu (1990), # Indrapur Temple (17th c.), Kathmandu Darbar World Heritage Site, (2001-02), # Jyababahi Pati (19th c.), Patan (2002), # Kulima Narayan Temple (17th c.), Patan (1997-1998), # KVPT Headquarter (20th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1999-2000), # Kva Baha (Golden Temple) 15th c., Patan World Heritage Site (1994), # Kwalkhu Ganesh Temple (19th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1992), # Kwalkhu Pati (19th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1992), # Lakhe Shrestha Tower (17th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1995), # Mani Gupha Temple (18th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1993), # Narayan Temple (17th c.), Kathmandu Darbar World Heritage Site, (2003), # Patukva Agamche (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1994-1997), # Prototype House for Monument Areas (1993), # Radha Krishna Temple (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1991-1994), # Shakya House (1993), # Sulima Temple (14th c.), Patan (1997-1998), # Survey of Kathmandu Sattals and Patis (1994), # Technical Support to Chhusya Bahal (17th c.), Kathmandu (1999), # Technical Support to Lampati (17th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1997), # Technical Support to Music School (19th c.), Chupin Ghat, Bhaktapur (1996), # Tumbaha Narayan Temple (16th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1998-2000), # Uma Maheswar Temple (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1991-1992), # Yetkha Bahal (12th c.), Kathmandu (2002),
ONGOING PROJECTS: # Patan Palace Complex: 1. Sundari Chowk, 2. Mul Chowk, 3. Bhandarkhal Archaeological Garden, Patan Darbar World Heritage Site; # Itum Baha monastery;
FUTURE PROJECTS: # Patan Darbar Square: 1. Court Builiding (19th c.), 2. Court Pati (19th c.), 3. Patan Palace Complex North Wing (18th c.), 4. Bhaideval Temple (17th c.), 5. Narasimha Temple (16th c.), 6. Visvanath Temple (17th c.); # Kathmandu Darbar Square: 1. Bansagopal Temple (17th c.), 2. Saraswati Pati (18th c.), 3. Drum House (18th c.), 4. Gorakhkali Shrine (17th c.));
* Programs (Trust Headquarters, Training, Old Glory, Internship, Research (Incl. The history of painting in Nepal and scientific analysis of paints and pigments), Unexpected Discovery [discovery of an ancient mural in the Yetkha Bahal shrine house];
* Archive [Documentation, publication, and information access projects undertaken in conjunction with Harvard University's Frances Loeb Library];
* Newsletter (# KVPT Field Report, Jan. 2009 (PDF, 1.08 MB), # KVPT Field Report, Nov. 2007 (PDF, 1.74 KB), # KVPT Newsletter, Dec. 2006 (PDF, 1.6 MB), # KVPT Newsletter, Winter 2005 (PDF, 1.6 MB), # Several MB strong folio of historic images);
* Publications (# 2007 Folio of Historic Image of Patan Darbar Square (PDF, 1.4 MB);
* Articles (# 2008-08 The Once and Future Kathmandu - Vanity Fair Internet Edition (PDF, 333 KB); # 2008-09 The Once and Future Kathmandu - Vanity Fair (PDF, 1.77 MB); # 2005-04 Articles From Orientations (PDF, 161 KB); # 1992 Timber Conservation Problems of the Nepalese Pagoda Temple by Erich Theophile and Rohit Ranjitkar (PDF, 5 MB); # 1979 Monumentum by Dr. E. F. Sekler (PDF, 2.3 MB));
* Contact Us.

URL http://www.kvptnepal.org/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kvptnepal.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/ Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* 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 300

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CrossAsia: Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ost- und Suedostasien / The Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia

http://crossasia.org/en/home/


05 Feb 2010

East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Self-description:
The Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia [Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ost- und Suedostasien] -- CrossAsia -- offers access to research information for East and Southeast Asian studies. Cross Asia is a cooperatively organized and modular structured portal. This virtual library has been developed by the http://ead.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index.html East Asia Department of the http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index_en.html Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its project partners. It is financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The project partners [... are:] GIGA German Institute of Global and Regional Studies and Institute for Asian Affairs [http://www.giga-hamburg.de], Institute for Chinese Studies of the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg [http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/e-index.html], Institute of Japanese Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen [http://www.japanologie.uni-tuebingen.de/], Institute of Chinese and Korean Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/ans/], State und University Library of Lower Saxony, Goettingen, GBV Head Office of the Common Union Network (GBV), China World Wide Web Virtual Library (Internet Guide for Chinese Studies) [http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/].

The project [... has been also assisted] by the Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAbout.html], and by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies [http://www.nias.ku.dk]."

Site contents:
* About CrossAsia;
* Special collection East/South-East Asia [About the collection "of more than 650,000 volumes in East Asian languages (annual increase about 20,000 volumes) and a large number of relevant books about East Asia in western languages" and more than 4,000 current periodicals];
* Special Collection Altaic Languages [About the materials in Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusic, Korean, Manchurian languages as well as materials in languages of Ainu in Japan and the Eskimo people in Siberia];
* Special Collection Non-Conventional Material [About the collection of "statistics, publications of official or semi-official institutions, including materials in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, from the countries of East- and Southeast Asia.";
* Project Partners [about GIGA and the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB)];
* Metasearch ([Simultaneous simple/advanced searches, aided by Search History and Bookshelf pages, in
# CATALOGUES AND DATABASES OF THE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN: Online Catalogue - East Asia Department of Berlin State Library (EAD Catalogue), Online Catalogue of the Berlin State Library (StaBiKat), Online Contents East and Southeast Asia, Online Contents Asia and North Africa, OGEA - Online Guide East Asia, ZeitschriftenDatenBank (ZDB), Wanfang China Online Journals;
# MORE ASIA RELATED CATALOGUES: Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg (Monographs), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library Catalogue, National Institute of Informatics Catalog (NACSIS-CAT), Chinabase;
# MORE CATALOGUES AND DATABASES: World Affairs Online Consortium of University Research Libraries OPAC (COPAC), Library of Congress, Common Library Network Catalogue (GVK), South-West German Union Catalogue, Berlin-Brandenburg Cooperative Union Catalogue, North Rhine Westphalian Union Catalogue, Hessian Union Catalogue, Bavarian Union Catalogue);
* Catalogues (Online-Catalogue - East Asia Department of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK, StaBiKat [Main catalogue of Berlin State Library], OLC-SSG East and Southeast Asia, OLC-SSG Asia and Northafrica);
* Access Databases (Register, Licensed databases, All Databases, Technical Requirements);
outheast Asian Studies; Search within individual categories - General, Teaching & Research, Philosophy & Religion, History, Archaeology, People, Geography, Economy & Business, Society, Politics, Law, Education, Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Literature, Movie & Film, Language & Linguistics, Science & Technolgy, Medicine, Search Engines & Web Guides, Computer Science, Books & Libraries, Mass Media);
* eGovernment Archive [A full text search over archived webpages from government institutions in Japan, the Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China (including Hongkong and Macao), Taiwan and Singapore];
* Address;
* Impressum.

[A quick, highly sophisticated, bilingual (DE, EN) site, which has been developed and superbly managed by Matthias Kaun (kaun--at--sbb.spk-berlin.de) of the original Online Guide East Asia (OGEA) fame - ed.]

URL http://crossasia.org/en/home/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crossasia.org/en/home/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/ Corporate Info
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* 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 300

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China Heritage Quarterly e-journal

http://chinaheritagequarterly.org/


28 Jan 2010

China Heritage Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Self-description:
"The China Heritage Quarterly [ISSN 1833-8461], previously China Heritage Newsletter [est. 2005 - ed.], is edited by Geremie R. Barme. It is an up-to-date publication covering recent developments and scholarship in areas related to China's heritage. [...] Each issue of the Quarterly provides readers with a different focus, which is amplified in detail in the Editorial. This is followed by Features, a section which contains articles related to the theme of the issue. Articles contains scholastic studies of various aspects of China's cultural heritage, while New Scholarship covers recent scholastic endeavours, conference reports, book reviews, material on recent monographs and, when appropriate, bibliographical material related to the focus of the issue. This online quarterly is produced under the aegis of the China Heritage Project [http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pah/chinaheritageproject/] [... RSPAS], The Australian National University."

Site contents:
* Editorial
* Features (Articles on the Theme of this [Dec 2009] Issue: Vale: Yang Xianyi; The Universal Library, by Duncan Campbell; The Search for Traditional Libraries, by Wei Li; A Bibliophile in Sin, by Don Cohn; On Reading A Record of the Gardens of Jiangnan, by Huang Shang)
* T'ien Hsia (Presents of the Past: Introduction; Editorial Commentary, Wen Yuan-ning; Library Chronicle, by V.L. Wong; The Chinese Book: Its Evolution and Development, by K.T. Wu; Libraries and Book-Collecting in China Before the Invention of Printing, by V.L. Wong; Cheng Ch'iao, A Pioneer in Library Methods, by K.T. Wu; Chinese Gardens: Especially in Kiangsu and Chekiang, by Chuin Tung)
* Articles (Articles on Aspects of China's Cultural Heritage, incl.: An Educated Man is Not a Pot, an interview with Pierre Ryckmans; The Han Supremacist: An Interview, by Sang Ye; The Ninety-nine Ways of Destroying the Manchus, by L. Carrington Goodrich)
* New Scholarship [Recent research, reviews, conferences]
* Behind the Scenes
* Links
* Recent Updates (A Short Course in Writing Chinese History, Elementary Eunuchs, Confucian Multipliers);
* Archives (2009 (No. 17, March 2009: The Heritage of Commemoration; No. 18, June 2009: The Heritage of Commemoration, Part II No. 19, September 2009: T'ien Hsia, All-Under-Heaven; No. 20, December 2009: The Heritage of Books, Collecting and Libraries), 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005);
* Search.

URL http://chinaheritagequarterly.org/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://chinaheritagequarterly.org/

Link reported by: Darren Boyd (darren.boyd--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by college.cap.academics--at--anu.edu.au

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/ News/ 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

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925--2006), Indonesian author

http://sites.google.com/site/pramoedyasite/


26 Jan 2010

sites.google.com, US

Self-description:
"First constructed in 1996, this website is dedicated to Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer. It is intended primarily as a research tool. It contains photos, biographical and bibliographical information, short stories, essays and interviews in translation, news reports and book reviews, abstracts, articles and letters, a list of publishers, and many off-site links. Submissions, requests, questions and links are welcome. Note that some documents reproduced here or linked to contain inaccuracies: rather than repeat them, please double-check your facts."

Site contents:
* Articles, essays and papers concerning Pramoedya;
* Berita dalam bahasa Indonesia tentang Pramoedya;
* For further information on Pramoedya;
* Interviews, essays and original works by Pramoedya in translation;
* Interviews and works in Indonesian: Karya-karya Pramoedya dalam bahasa Indonesia;
* Lain-lain dalam bahasa Indonesia tentang Pramoedya;
* Links to documents you may have to pay to access;
* Material in languages other than English or Indonesian;
* News reports in English concerning Pramoedya;
* Pramoedya: bibliographical information;
* Pramoedya: biographical information;
* Pramoedya: book reviews;
* Pramoedya: photos;
* Pramoedya: video;
* Pramoedya's publishers;
* Selected sources and references;
* Search.

URL http://sites.google.com/site/pramoedyasite/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Alex G Bardsley (a.bardsley--at--starpower.net), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/ Documents/ Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* 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

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