Kalasampada Digital Library - Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage
http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
23 Sep 2008
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India.
Self-description:
"Aims [of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts which was established in Nov 1985]: * to serve as a major resource centre for the arts, especially written, oral and visual source materials; * to undertake research and publication programmes of reference works, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedia concerning the arts and the humanities; * to establish a tribal and folk arts division with a core collection for conducting systematic scientific studies and for live presentations; * to provide a forum for a creative and critical dialogue through performances, exhibitions, multi-media projections, conferences, seminars and workshops between and amongst the diverse arts, traditional and cotemporary [...]."
Site contents:
* Digital Images (Archaeological Sites, Slide Collections, Multimedia Projects, Multimedia Documentation, Exhibitions, Print Material); * Photograph Collections; * Video Recordings (Gita Govinda, Brhadisvara Temple, Kutiyattam, Video Clips of Archaeological Sites of Orissa, Film & Video Documentation, Film & Video Acquired) * Audio Recordings: Music Collections; * Multimedia CD Roms Available (Ajanta, Devadasi Murai, Muktesvara, Rockart); * DVD ROMs Available (Behind the Mask, Hampi - The World Heritage Site, Oral Tradition of Vedas, Saat - Sur); * Multimedia Documentation (The Illustrated Jataka & Other Stories of the Buddha, Art & Crafts of North-East); * Newsletters and Journals of IGNCA; * Books Published by IGNCA (online Electronic Books, Series : Kalasamalocana, Kalatattvakosa, Kalamulasastra) * Papers and Essays (Indo-Chinese Studies, Nature & Cosmology, Man & Matter, Oral Traditions, Culture : Ecology, Education and Development, Multimedia) * Research Reports (Pali Tipitaka Chanting, Report on Cultural Mapping of India, Village India Project, The Viavaripa iconographic traditions 5th - 13th c. CE.); * Bibliography (An Annotated Bibliography on Zoroastrian Studies, A Select Bibliography on Shadow Puppetry, Prof. Vasudeva Saran Agrawala - A Bibliographic Survey of his Published works, Calligraphy - a Literature Search, Bibliography on Hampi - World Heritage Site); * Manuscripts Catalogue (Organization, Catalogue of Microfilmed Manuscripts, Survey of Manuscripts in India); * Databases; * Articles by In-house Scholars; * Conference Proceedings.
URL http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [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 30
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
23 Sep 2008
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India.
Self-description:
"Aims [of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts which was established in Nov 1985]: * to serve as a major resource centre for the arts, especially written, oral and visual source materials; * to undertake research and publication programmes of reference works, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedia concerning the arts and the humanities; * to establish a tribal and folk arts division with a core collection for conducting systematic scientific studies and for live presentations; * to provide a forum for a creative and critical dialogue through performances, exhibitions, multi-media projections, conferences, seminars and workshops between and amongst the diverse arts, traditional and cotemporary [...]."
Site contents:
* Digital Images (Archaeological Sites, Slide Collections, Multimedia Projects, Multimedia Documentation, Exhibitions, Print Material); * Photograph Collections; * Video Recordings (Gita Govinda, Brhadisvara Temple, Kutiyattam, Video Clips of Archaeological Sites of Orissa, Film & Video Documentation, Film & Video Acquired) * Audio Recordings: Music Collections; * Multimedia CD Roms Available (Ajanta, Devadasi Murai, Muktesvara, Rockart); * DVD ROMs Available (Behind the Mask, Hampi - The World Heritage Site, Oral Tradition of Vedas, Saat - Sur); * Multimedia Documentation (The Illustrated Jataka & Other Stories of the Buddha, Art & Crafts of North-East); * Newsletters and Journals of IGNCA; * Books Published by IGNCA (online Electronic Books, Series : Kalasamalocana, Kalatattvakosa, Kalamulasastra) * Papers and Essays (Indo-Chinese Studies, Nature & Cosmology, Man & Matter, Oral Traditions, Culture : Ecology, Education and Development, Multimedia) * Research Reports (Pali Tipitaka Chanting, Report on Cultural Mapping of India, Village India Project, The Viavaripa iconographic traditions 5th - 13th c. CE.); * Bibliography (An Annotated Bibliography on Zoroastrian Studies, A Select Bibliography on Shadow Puppetry, Prof. Vasudeva Saran Agrawala - A Bibliographic Survey of his Published works, Calligraphy - a Literature Search, Bibliography on Hampi - World Heritage Site); * Manuscripts Catalogue (Organization, Catalogue of Microfilmed Manuscripts, Survey of Manuscripts in India); * Databases; * Articles by In-house Scholars; * Conference Proceedings.
URL http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [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 30
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
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