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
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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]:
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Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia: History and Prospects

http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=412


26 Jan 2010

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, WA, US

Self-description:
"NBR Special Report (Dec 2009) 'Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia: History and Prospects' [by] Sumit Ganguly.
Given the persistent and transnational nature of terrorism in South Asia, the region's countries share a common interest in cooperating on counterterrorism. This report examines the history of terrorism in South Asia, past attempts at counterterrorism cooperation, and challenges facing regional cooperation. Sumit Ganguly also discusses several strategies and policies for a more effective regional approach to counterterrorism in South Asia."

Extract:
"MAIN FINDINGS: * Two discernable patterns emerge from the cases of terrorism in South Asia. First, these cases all involve indigenous uprisings that turned to the use of terrorism. Second, every case saw external intervention frequently exacerbating the original conflicts, prolonging their duration, and dramatically expanding their scope.
# There are few examples of effective regional counterterrorism cooperation in the region. South Asian states have been more prone to use terrorist proxies to achieve foreign and security policy goals rather than evince any willingness to engage in viable counterterrorism cooperation.
# Weak regional institutional frameworks, the long history of discord, conflict and distrust among the South Asian states, and organizational weaknesses of counterterrorism capabilities present significant barriers to regional counterterrorism cooperation.
# The prospects of counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia are distinctly mixed. Though the possibilities for Indo-Pakistani counterterrorism cooperation in the foreseeable future are negligible, there are limited prospects for cooperation between Bangladesh and India, Sri Lanka and India, and Nepal and India."

URL http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=412

[A PDF document, 872 KB - ed.]

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

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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Asian Tsunami Web Archive

http://tsunami.archive.org/


20 Jan 2010

Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore & The Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, US

Self-description:
"This Web archive [a collaborative project of the Singapore Internet Research Centre, NTU and The Internet Archive - ed.] is a collection of over 1500 sites relating to the December 2004 Tsunami disaster in Asia. A shapshot of these sites has been taken once a week starting from the first week of January 2005 in order to build an archived record of this world shattering event. [...] Our aim in creating this collection of Web materials was to preserve the Web expressions of individual people, groups, the press and institutions from around the world, in the aftermath of the tsunami on 26 December 2004."

Site contents:
* Explore the archive ([browse via the following categories:] # PRODUCER TYPE: Broadcasting, Business, Citizen, Educational, Government, Labour Union, NGO Other, Party, Portal, Press Radio, Religious, TV Broadcast; # COUNTRY: Africa, Arab, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland [sic], Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Unknown, Zurich [sic]; # PRIMARY LANGUAGE: Cataln [sic], Chinese, Chinese Traditional, English, French, Indonesia [sic], Japanese, Malay, Malayalam, Portuguese, Singhalese, Tamil, Thai);
* Search this Archive;
* Advanced Search;
* View archive by Web address [of the site in question]:

URL http://tsunami.archive.org/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [all materials catalogued/cross-referenced in "tsunami.archive.org" refer to web sites discovered, crawled and preserved by the "web.archive.org" - ed.]

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News/ Documents/ Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic/NGO
* 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 1,000

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Project MUSE - Browse Journals by Discipline - Asian Studies

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/subject.html#asian


The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jan 2009, Vol. 17, No. 1 (306)
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18 Jan 2010

Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, MD, US.

Self-description:
"Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSEL) at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional publishers joining in each subsequent year.
[...] Project MUSE (muse.jhu.edu) provides full text, [institutional] subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences."

Site contents:
* Archives of Asian Art (Vol. 58 (2008) through current issue);
* ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Vol. 23 (2006) through current issue);
* Asian Music (Vol. 36 (2005) through current issue);
* Asian Perspectives (Vol. 39 (2000) through current issue);
* Asian Theatre Journal (Vol. 16, no. 2 (1999) through current issue);
* Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (Vol. 1 (2007) through current issue);
* China: An International Journal (Vol. 1 (2003) through current issue);
* China Review International (Vol. 6, no. 2 (1999) through current issue);
* Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Vol. 20 (2000) through current issue);
* The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 12 (2000) through current issue);
* Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs (Vol. 28 (2006) through current issue);
* Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 69 (2009) through current issue);
* Journal of Asian American Studies (Vol. 1 (1998) through current issue);
* Journal of Chinese Overseas (Vol. 1 (2005) through Vol. 4 (2008); archive only);
* The Journal of Japanese Studies (Vol. 30 (2004) through current issue);
* Korean Studies (Vol. 24 (2000) through current issue);
* Late Imperial China (Vol. 17 (1996) through current issue);
* Manoa (Vol. 11, no. 2 (1999) through current issue);
* Monumenta Nipponica (Vol. 60 (2005) through current issue);
* Oceanic Linguistics (Vol. 38, no. 2 (1999) through current issue);
* Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Vol. 7, no. 2 (1999); Vol. 8 (2000) through current issue);
* Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Vol. 21 (2006) through current issue);
* Southeast Asian Affairs (Volume 2008 through current issue);
* Twentieth-Century China (Vol. 33, no. 1 (2007) through current issue)

URL http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/subject.html#asian

Internet Archive (web.archive.org)
[Not archived. Access to http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business/Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
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Asian Theatre Journal (ATJ)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/atj/


18 Jan 2010

Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, MD, US.

Self-description-1:
"Project MUSE (muse.jhu.edu) provides full text, [institutional] subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences."

Self-description-2:
"Asian Theatre Journal [E-ISSN: 1527-2109 Print ISSN: 0742-5457, PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press, JOURNAL COVERAGE: Vol. 16, no. 2 (1999) through current issue - ed.] is dedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing upon both traditional and modern theatrical forms. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international theatrical community for the mutual benefit of all interested scholars and artists. It offers descriptive and analytical articles, original plays and play translations, book and audiovisual reviews, and reports of current theatrical activities in Asia."

Site contents:
* Search This Journal; * Current Issue; * Free Sample Issue; * Subscription Information; * Indexing/Abstracting; * Advertising Rates and Policies; * Submission Guidelines; * Editorial Board; * University of Hawai'i Press.
* Vol 16, Number 2, Fall 1999 - Vol 26, Number 1, Spring 2009;
* Frequently Downloaded Articles (# East, West, and World Theatre, # Tradition, Change, and Continuity in Chinese Theatre in the Last Hundred Years: In Commemoration of the Spoken Drama Centenary, # Theatricality and Cultural Critique in Chinese Cinema, # The Transfiguration of Indian/Asian Dance in the United Kingdom: Contemporary Bharatanatyam in Global Contexts, # Myth and Reality: A Story of Kabuki during American Censorship, 1945-1949).

URL http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/atj/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org)
[Not archived. Access to http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/atj/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]

Link reported by: Moshe Cohen (moshikomoshiko--at--yahoo.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business/Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO)

http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/


15 Jan 2010

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Self-description:
"Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) is a corpus of selected old (VIIth to Xth centuries) Tibetan texts: Dunhuang manuscripts [digitised and published by The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) http://idp.bl.uk/], Inscriptions and related materials. We provide critically edited texts together with search and KeyWord In Context (KWIC) facilities."

Site contents:
* Introduction [under construction];
* Acknowledgements;
* About Us;
* Online Texts [as of 15 Jan 2010 - 89 texts; an example of the data structure and contents of the record "ITJ_1379" follows:
1. Content : Receipt for the repayment of loaned wheat. 2. Note : sheet. The top left part of the main text is missing. Recto, 9 lines with two illegible vermilion seals at the bottom. Verso, 1 line.
3. References : Thomas (1951: 43-44) [I.Translit., I.Trans.], T?y? bunko (part 10, 65-66) , Takeuchi (1995: 262-263) [I.Translit., I.Trans.].
4. Transliteration: (r1) [---] stsang / / mngan rnying lo byis brtsan gyi sug pa na /\[...] - ed.]
* Search the Texts [incl. search for text patterns];
* References (Abbreviations, Bibliography [in European and Asian languages]);
* Links;
* Search [the site].

URL http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
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Bulletin of the Asia Institute (BAI)

http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/


13 Jan 2010

www.bulletinasiainstitute.org, Bloomfield Hills, MI, US

Supplied note:
"Dear Colleague, [...] The Bulletin of the Asia Institute is pleased to announce the publication of vol. 19 IRANIAN AND ZOROASTRIAN STUDIES IN HONOR OF PRODS OKTOR SKJAERVØ [SKJAERVØ - ed.].

# Duan Qing - "'Mulberry' in Khotanese: A New Khotanese Loan Deed in the Hetian Museum"; # Yaakov Elman - "The Other in the Mirror: Iranians and Jews View One Another: Questions of Identity, Conversion, and Exogamy in the Fifth-Century Iranian Empire, Part One"; # Richard N. Frye - "Church and State in Iranian History"; # Rika Gyselen, "Vahram III (293) and the Rock Relief of Naqsh-i Rustam II: A Contribution to the Iconography of Sasanian Crown Princes in the Third Century"; # Valerie Hansen - "The Tribute Trade with Khotan in Light of Materials Found at the Dunhuang Library Cave"; # Prudence O. Harper - "From Earth to Heaven: Speculations on the Significance of the Form of the Achaemenid Censer"; # Almut Hintze - "The Cow that Came from the Moon: The Avestan Expression mah- gaociĮra-"; # Stephanie W. Jamison, "Poetic Self-Reference in the Rig Veda and the Persona of Zarathustra"; # Jean Kellens et Philippe Swennen - "Le sacrifice et la nature humaine"; # Hiroshi Kumamoto - "Paul Pelliot and the Desana-parivarta of the Suvar?abhasa-sutra"; # Judith A. Lerner - "An Alan Seal"; # Maria Macuch, "The Herbedestan as a Legal Source: A Section on the Inheritance of a Convert to Zoroastrianism"; # Mauro Maggi - "Annotations on the Book of Zambasta, II: Khotanese ma?kya-"; # Antonio Panaino, "Sheep, Wheat, and Wine: An Achaemenian Antecedent of the Sasanian Sacrifices pad ruwan"; # Rong Xinjiang - "The Name of the So-called "Tumshuqese" Language"; # James R. Russell - "The Demon Weed"; # Lore Sander, "Remarks on the Formal Brahmi Script from the Southern Silk Route"; # Martin Schwartz - "Apollo and Khshathrapati, the Median Nergal, at Xanthos"; # Shai Secunda - "Studying with a Magus/Like Giving a Tongue to a Wolf"; # Shaul Shaked - "Aramaic Loan-words in Middle Persian"; # M. Rahim Shayegan - "Nugae Epigraphicae"; # Daniel Jensen Sheffield, "The Wizirgerd i Denig and the Evil Spirit: Questions of Authenticity in Post-Classical Zoroastrianism"; # Nicholas Sims-Williams - "Before the Quarrel: A Bactrian Purchase Contract"; # Ursula Sims-Williams, "The Strange Story of Samuel Guise: An 18th-Century Collection of Zoroastrian Manuscripts"; # Werner Sundermann, "The Emperor's New Clothes"; # Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina - "Resurrecting the Resurrection: Eschatology and Exegesis in Late Antique Zoroastrianism"; # Dieter Weber, "A Pahlavi Papyrus from Islamic Times"; # Yutaka Yoshida - "Visa' Sura's Corpse Discovered?" - cb."

Self-description:
"Studies in the art, archaeology, numismatics, history, and languages of ancient Iran, Mesopotamia, and Central Asia and connections with China and Japan along the Silk Route are presented in a scholarly journal, the Bulletin of the Asia Institute [ISSN 0890-4460]."

Site contents:
* About the Bulletin; * Ordering Information; * BAI Abbreviations; * Links;
[TOCs for the following subject areas:] * Iranian Studies; * Central Asia; * China and the West; * Gandhara / Buddhist Art / India; * Islamic Art; * Near East; * Asia Minor; * Archaeology; * Metalwork / Ceramics / Glass; * Textiles / MSS / Wall Painting; * Coins / Seals; * Sculpture; * Inscriptions; * Literature / Language; * Manichaeism / Zoroastrianism;
[TOCs and abstracts of selected articles from:] * Vol. 1 (Jan 1987) - Vol. 18 (Dec 2008).

URL http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/

Link reported by: Carol Bromberg (bai34--at--comcast.net)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka (FDASL) Project

http://dlir.aiys.org/LALORC/AISLS/aboutFDASL.htm


06 Jan 2010

Digital Library for International Research (DLIR), Washington, DC, US.

Self-description:
"The Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka (FDASL) is a documentary project that produced an inventory of furniture and other decorative arts that were created in Sri Lanka and are currently owned by Sri Lanka's cultural institutions and private collections. It is sponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies [www.aisls.org - ed.]. [...]
The inventory is presented in an image database of approximately 1,000 images of 400 unique items that were photographed by the project's principal researcher, Ayesha Abdur-Rahman, from 2006 to 2009. The first collections to be described were the furniture collections of the National Museums of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Galle, Kandy, and at Pettah. These collections primarily consist of furniture from the Portuguese, Dutch and British Periods (17th to 19th centuries)."

Site contents:
* About DLIR;
* About FDASL;
* Essays (Essays by Ayesha Abdur-Rahman: # Burgomaster Chairs, # Dating the Furniture of Sri Lanka, # Woods Used in Sri Lanka Furniture);
* Image database [database fields: # Type of object, # Subject, # Numerical date, # Date of period, # Place of creation, # Measurements (H: W: L:), # Materials, # Techniques, # Inscriptions and marks, # Distinguishing features, # Descriptions, # Location, # Accession ID, # Notes - ed.] (# Search museums or private collections: National Museum of Sri Lanka (Colombo), National Museum of Sri Lanka (Kandy), National Museum of Sri Lanka (Galle), Dutch Period Museum (Pettah), Lunuganga Trust (Geoffrey Bawa's Home in Colombo), Lunuganga Trust (Geoffrey Bawa's Home in Lunuganga), A. Mohideen Private Collection Furniture, A. Mohideen and Sheeraz Sellamuttu Private Collection Brasses, Tea Estate Collections (Sheen-Sheen), Tea Estate Collections (Bogawantalawa), Tea Estate Collections (Harrow-Sheen), # Search the entire Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka);
* Bibliography [Annotated Bibliography by Ayesha Abdur-Rahman, i.e. details of 20 publications in English from the years 1681-2008];
* Credits.

URL http://dlir.aiys.org/LALORC/AISLS/aboutFDASL.htm

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

Link reported by: John Rogers (Rogersjohnd--at--aol.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/ Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
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Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women (SPARROW)

http://www.sparrowonline.org/


06 Jan 2010

www.sparrowonline.org, Mumbai, India.

Self-description:
"The idea of setting up SPARROW took root in 1988. Before that, those who are now the trustees of SPARROW had met several times and discussed the possibilities of setting up a Women's Archives with a difference. The need for such a specialised archives has emerged from their own work in Women's Studies. The idea was not to set up a Women's Archives as just a collection centre but to create an archives which would be more vibrant and more communicative. The Women's Archives was conceived as an organisation which would bring people together; an archive which would be an agent of conscientisation. [...]
Current SPARROW Holdings: 12745 photographs, 5969 media slides, 609 documentaries in 7 languages, 585 popular films in 11 languages, 4700 books in 12 languages, 3500 journal articles in 7 languages, 17500 newspaper clippings in 8 languages, 1925 brochures in 9 languages, 3031 print visuals, 1362 posters, 118 calendars, 8000 cartoons by Maya Kamath, 649 music audio-cassettes / C.Ds, 1093 oral history recordings."

Site contents:
* Profile;
* Trustees (SPARROW Trustees, Advisory Committee, External Advisors from Outside Mumbai, External Advisors from Outside India);
* Projects (1. Oral History Recording Programme (OHRP), 2. Digital Video Recording Project, 3. Photography Project, 4. Media-Watch Project, 5. Multilingual Collection Project, 6. NGO Documentation, 7. Project Maya Kamath, 8. Global Feminisms);
* Archives (# Oral History Recordings: Freedom Movements, Practitioners of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Traditional Healers, Ambedkar Movement & Experiences of Dalit Women, Policymakers, Women In Progressive Movements, Women in the Left & Progressive Movements, Artistes/Artists, Bani Basu, Mona Zote, # Media Watch: Advertisements, Documentaries by women on women, Films by women on women, # Video Documentation, # Photographic Project: Activists at work, Selected works of women photographers, Sangli Event coverage, Performers, Vanmala, # Multi-Lingual Collections, The Word: Books, journals, The Image: posters, ritual designs, cartoons and jokes, diaries , The Sound: Folk) ;
* Publications (Booklets, Books, Reports, Translations, Publication Pricelist);
* Worshops (Oral History, Visual History, Film Viewing);
* Outreach (Events and Expansion Plans);
* Newsletter (SPARROW Newsletter No. 1 Nov, 2003 to Newsletter No. 18 Sep, 2009 [free download, PDF format]);
* Annual Reports [donloadable reports, from 1997-1998 till 2008-2008];
* Downloads (Selected Sparrow Films about: # Homai Vyarawalla [photo journalist], # Ambika [actress], # Malathamma [actress], # Ritha [dancer], # Pramila Esther Victoria Abraham [oral historian], # Kanaka [sculptor], # Damayanti Menaka's Daughter [dancer], # Sushma Vhay, Mee Savitriba [actress], # Maya [actress], # Neela - Colours of Tradition [painter], # Vithabai [actress]);
* Contact Us;
* How to Participate.

URL http://www.sparrowonline.org/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sparrowonline.org/

Link reported by: Geraldine Forbes (geraldine.forbes--at--oswego.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/ Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* 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 300

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Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (DLLM)

04 Jan 2010

National Library of Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR.

Self-description:
"The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts makes images of almost 12,000 texts from throughout Laos easily accessible for study. Collaborating institutions are the National Library of Laos, the University of Passau, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

There is a wide diversity in the manuscript collection, covering a large geographical area and historical timeframe, different literary traditions and schools of scribes, and different languages and scripts. The majority of the texts are from the Lao, Lan Na and Tai Lue traditions, with smaller numbers in Tai Nuea, and Tai Dam, etc. The DLLM database can be searched by title, ancillary term, language, script, category, material, location, date, and code number. Grey-tone images of the manuscripts (digitised from microfilm) can be viewed online or copied to your desktop, and complete sets of images of inventoried texts can be downloaded. The DLLM website also provides information about the Lao literary tradition, the Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Programme, study resources, and a gallery of photographs showing the manuscript preservation work of the National Library of Laos.

[...] The DLLM website was launched in September 2009. At present 6,173 texts are searchable. More texts will be added regularly until the full collection of almost 12,000 texts becomes available in late 2010. Feedback on the functionality of the site and suggestions for improvement are welcome."

Supplied note:
"The National Library of Laos is pleased to announce the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (DLLM), a web application which will make images of almost 12,000 texts from throughout Laos easily accessible for study. We hope that this collection may be if interest to users of the Asian Studies WWW VL. [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html - ed.] The digital library can be viewed at [the URL below].
Please note that the website will not be available on 07 and 08 January 2010. - DLLM Project."

Site contents:
* About (Background, DLLM Project, DLLM Collection);

* Resources (# Languages and Scripts [information about the languages and scripts found in the DLLM collection, including resources such as primers, dictionaries, grammars and other reference works, together with selected articles and links to further resources.], # Research Papers [collected papers in Lao, Thai and English from the international conference 'The Literary Heritage of Laos: Preservation, Dissemination and Research Perspectives', held in Vientiane in January 2004, and other research papers.], # PLMP Newsletter [digital copies of the 22 volumes (issued biannually 1993-2003, PDF format - ed.) of a Lao-language newsletter Khao bai lan published during the Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Programme, containing news from the various field sites where the survey and microfilming took place, together with short extracts from palm-leaf manuscripts which had been found in those locations.], # Gallery [a gallery of photographs: Lao Buddhist temples, Buddha images and murals, village life, festivals, making palm-leaf manuscripts, and subsequent related fieldwork conducted in Northern Laos.], # Links [online dictionaries and reference works for Pali and other languages, online resources for Buddhist texts in Pali and in translation, and links to universities and other institutes with relevant courses and programmes, etc.]);

* Help (General Help, Site Help, Search Help, Results Help, Text Overview Help);

* Site Map;

* Contact Us;

* Search the Database (Search by Title, Ancillary Term, Language, Script, Category, Material, Location, and Date);

* Site Search [Google custom search];

* PLMP Code [Number] Search;

* DLLM Glossary [terminology used in the context of the DLLM database and website];

* DLLM Bibliography;

* DLLM Directory [Names, Institution/Organisations, and Areas of interest of researchers who registered themselves with the DLLM project];

* View Favourites.

[The documents and other information published online by the DLLM Project are the most wonderful Christmas/New Year present that librarians, researchers, and students worldwide could ever hoped to receive so freely, so elegantly, and so amply. Congratulations, hoorays and words of deep gratitude to the National Library of Laos, the University of Passau, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, the German Research Foundation, and the German Federal Government; felicitations and assurance of endless vicarious delight to all present and future visitors to the DLLM website - ed.]

URL http://www.laomanuscripts.net

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

Link reported by: DLLM Project (laomanuscripts--at--gmail.com)

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

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Acronyms used by Asian / Pacific Studies' scholars: a dictionary

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ACR/Acronyms.html


04 Jan 2010

RSPAS, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Self-description:
"This document [compiled since 2004 by T. M. Ciolek and John Noyce - ed.] lists acronyms, names and web addresses of over 2,390 [2,240 acronyms were listed in Jan 2009 - ed.] leading associations, institutes, networks, NGOs, organisations, periodicals, programs, and research projects of relevance to Asian & Pacific Studies. [...] You are cordially invited to send addenda and corrections to this list [...which is] a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html)."

Site contents:
[File structure:] * Acronym, * Entity (and its URL), * Category (body, group, meeting, periodical, program, project, resource), * A Part Of, * Country. The recorded entries range from 'AAA' (Australian Archaeological Association, Australia) to 'IAUNRC' (Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana U., US) to 'SUPRA' (Support Program for Advanced Asian Studies, NIAS, Denmark) to 'ZIORI' (Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, Tanzania), and 'ZMO' (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany).

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ACR/Acronyms.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ACR/Acronyms.html

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

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