Candi di Indonesia - [Buddhist and Hindu] Temples of Indonesia

http://candi.pnri.go.id

30 Jul 2010

Candi di Indonesia - [Buddhist and Hindu] Temples of Indonesia

Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia / National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Self-description:
"This site is developed [2000-2005 ed.] by the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, particularly offered to the Congress of South East Asian Libraries (CONSAL), [http://www.consal.org/] [...]. Temples are mentioned as the theme for the existence of the temples in Indonesia has close relationship with the history of this nation and the state of Indonesia. The [Buddhist and Hindu] temples spreading throughout the archipelago are incredible cultural heritage and highly appreciated; hence, their existence should be broadly well known to the societies."

Site contents [English version]:
* About Temple[s Project];
* Sumatra (Bahal, Muara Takus);
* West Java (Batujaya, Bojongmenje, Cangkuang, Cibuaya);
* Central Java & Yogyakarta (Banyuniba, Barong, Barabudhur, Bubrah, Dieng, Gebang, Gedong Sanga, Ijo, Kalasan, Kedulan, Lumbung, Mendut, Pawon, Plaosan, Prambanan, Pringapus, Ratu Baka, Sambisari, Sari, Sewu, Sukuh);
* East Java (Badhut, Bajangratu, Brahu, Cetha, Gununggangsir, Jago, Jawi, Kidal, Kolam Segaran, Panataran, Plumbangan, Rimbi, Sadon, Sawentar, Singasari, Surawana, Tegawangi, Tikus, Wringinlawang);
* Bali (Taman Ayun, Tanah Lot, Uluwatu);
* Bibliography [approx. 120 bibliographical positions in Indonesian, Dutch, English and French - ed.];
* About This Site;
* Map [interactive] (Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, Bali);
* Indonesian version.

A bilingual (ID/EN) website.

URL http://candi.pnri.go.id

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 - government - 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
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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Indian Railways Fan Club (IRFCA)

http://irfca.org/

25 Jul 2010

IRFCA, Teaneck, NJ, USA

Self-description:
"Explore our site [est. 1999 - ed.] and learn about Indian Railways, read trip reports, and view our picture gallery! Read articles, browse technical documents about IR and report locomotive sightings! IRFCA is a mailing list for discussing all aspects of railways in India. Learn more about IRFCA. If you want to talk about trains in India, their history, their operational or technical details, steam in India, or if you want to share and enjoy railway travelogues, see members' web pages and photo collections, or check the latest news about trains in India, we invite you to join us. [...] Note: This site is not officially affiliated with Indian Railways! The official web site of Indian Railways is: http://www.indianrailways.gov.in"

Site contents:
* About Indian Railways [FAQs on Indian Railways] (# Locomotives, # Multiple Units & Others, # Signalling, # Rolling Stock, # Electric Traction, # Train Numbers, # Railway Zones, # Maps [IR route map, Suburban sections, Historical maps, Rail temperature zones], # Loco Sheds, Workshops, and Goods Yards, # Production Units, # History of IR [Early days : 1832 - 1869, 1870 - 1899, Pre independence : 1900 - 1947, Post independence : 1947 - 1970, Modern times : 1970 - 1995, 1995 - 1999, 2000 to the present], # Researching IR [Journals, Family history], # Jargon, # Gauges in India [Common gauges used, Mixed gauges], # Museums [NRM, Delhi, Mysore rail museum], # Games, # Odds and Ends, # Sources, # Books and Other Publications [Books, Locomotives, Travelogues, History, More books, Book stores, Journals and periodicals, Timetables, Videos, Maps and Atlases], # Locomotive Specifications, # Steam In India, # Railway Operations, # Freight Trains, # Permanent Way, # Train Names, # International Connections [South Asia, China and south east Asia, Iran and Afghanistan], # Railway Stations [Details of stations, Station code lists, Names to codes, Codes to names], # Liveries, # Famous Trains [Palace on Wheels, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, More...], # Suburban and Transit Systems [Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, More...], # Acronyms, # Modelling IR Trains, # Travelling by Train in India [Online timetables, IndRail passes], # Railfanning, # Trivia, # Organizations and Groups, # Non-IR Railways);
* Trip reports,;
* Picture gallery;
* Articles (Articles by IRFCA members, Trip reports and Travelogues, Newspaper and periodical articles, Articles from the FNRM and ISRS, Steam and Heritage news bulletins);
* Technical documents (# Railway Maps, # Articles, # Train numbers, Place names, etc., # Technical: Rake Link, Brakes, etc., # Locomotive fleet lists, shed holdings, allocations, production, # Statistical information, # Railfanning, # Foreign, # History, # South Asian Industrial Locos, # Preserved locos, etc., # Miscellaneous documents, # Rule Book);
* About trains in India & their history [1832-present];
* Members' web pages and photo collections [over 7,000 members in Aug 2009 - ed.];
Join the IRFCA Mailing List;
* The IRFCA Locomotive Database;
* About IRFCA;
* Contact Us;
* Search this site;
* Site Map;
* Links (# IRFCA links, # IR Link collections, # Pictures, videos, sound files, # IR Heritage and Steam, # IR Modelling, # Official IR web sites, # Timetables, travel, # Maps, # Mailing lists and newsgroups, # General (non-IR) railway information, # Additional Links);
* Acknowledgements.

URL http://irfca.org/

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

Link reported by: Hari Venkatesan (hari.venkatesan--at--gmail.com), 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 - government - 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 3,000 [in fact, over 1,640 links]

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[India:] Archive & Access [Project]

http://publicarchives.org/

18 Jul 2010

Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India

Supplied note:
"There is little public information about the holdings and collections of libraries and archives in India, particularly those that are not large or prominent enough to appear in existing databases. The Archive and Access project invites you to contribute information about these institutions and help to build a public, easily accessible database. For more details, please look at:
http://publicarchives.org/directory-of-archive-and-libraries.html
The Archive and Access project aims to set up a consortium of libraries and archives with a online joint catalogue; to build an online directory of significant archival collections in India; and to make available full text selections contributed by historians. It also tries to facilitate public discussions about archival practices and policies and to develop ideas about ownership and use. -
Rochelle Pinto, Aparna Balachandran, Abhijit Bhattacharya."

Self-description:
"This project enables small archives, libraries and private collections in India to place their catalogues online and enter into agreements for resource sharing. It provides access to full text online historical collections contributed by individual researchers."

Site contents:
* Introducing Archives and Access (The Archive and Access Project, What's The Importance of a Consortium?, Who We Are, What Else We Do);
* Announcements;
* Past events;
* Directory of archives & libraries ([Institution, Contacts, Collections, Information, Contributor detail]:
N O R T H India: Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
S O U T H India: Andaman and Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry,
E A S T India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal,
W E S T India: Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra);
* Catalogue search [in Jul 2010, search could be made only across the catalogue of South Asian Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore - ed.];
* Full text collections [in Jul 2010 - under construction];
* Contact us;
* Blog ["Indian historians discuss public archives publicly"]
(# Recent Posts: The Delhi State Archives, The Inalienable Right to the Archives -- Entering the Capital, Documents in the Time of Democracy, Digitisation and Private Records--The Case of the Regional Archive, Note on Survey and Procurement of Indian Language Materials, Shahid Amin.
# Blog Authors: Abhijit Bhattacharya, CSSS, Calcutta, Aparna Balachandran, IIT Madras, Rochelle Pinto, CSCS, Bangalore.
# Institutional Archives: Archives of Indian Labour, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, CSCS Library and Media Archive, International Institute of Social History, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, School of Cultural Texts and Records, [SAVIFA] The Virtual Library South Asia at the University of Heidelberg,
# Open Access: Digital Library of India, Digital South Asia Library, European Cultural Heritage Online, Frontier: Full text documents, Inflibent (University Grants Commission), Interview with Harvard librarian Robert Darnton, Liberation: Full text documents, News from the open access movement, Porichoy -- full text documents, Virtual Library of South Asia, University of Heidelberg, Yet Another Reason for Institutional OA Mandates.
# Other Useful Links: archive.org, Libraries, Libraries and Archives in South Asia -- Wiki, National Manuscripts Mission, UNESCO Convention 2005.
# Private Archives: Adyar Library and Research Centre, Chennai, Godrej Archive, Mumbai, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai, United Theological College, Bangalore.
# State Archives: Asiatic Library, Mumbai, Connemara Public Library, Chennai, Karnataka State Archives, Bangalore, Khuda Bakhsh, Patna, National Archives of India, New Delhi, National Library, Kolkata, Saraswati Mahal Library, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu State Archives, Chennai.
# Useful Articles: Archive and Aspiration, Global Commons).

URL http://publicarchives.org/

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

Link reported by: Deborah Sutton (d.sutton--at--lancaster.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / News / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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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Japanese Garden Dictionary - A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History

http://www.nabunken.go.jp/database/jgd/index.html

10 Jul 2010

Department of Cultural Heritage, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara, Japan.

Self-description:

"Japanese Garden Dictionary - A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History. Compiled and Edited by ONO Kenkichi and Walter EDWARDS. This online dictionary is based on the Bilingual [Japanese & English] Dictionary of Japanese Garden Terms, published in 2001 as the result of a project conducted under the auspices of a Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research [....] Portions of that work were subsequently incorporated by Ono Kenkichi in a Japanese language publication, Nihon teien jiten (Iwanami Shoten, 2004). This online compilation, maintained by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, is intended to make the English language content of the original dictionary more widely accessible."

Site contents:
* English index (Over 600 entries organised alphabetically,
from
abbot's quarters, aggregate lantern, aka well, Akisato Rito, Amanohashidate, Amida hall, angler fish basin, arbor, arched bridge, arched stone bridge, arching stone, armor pattern screen fence, and artificial hill, [...]
through
[...], milepost lantern, millstone, miniature landscape, mirror stone, mist-shaped island, monkey pine, moon shadow stone, moss, moss garden, mountain base stone, mountain island, mountain path stone, mountain slope stone, and mountain-and-water landscape, [...]
to
[...], waterfowl stone, waterside lantern, wave-receiving stone, wayside stone, weathered beauty western style garden, who goes there? lantern, wild wave stone, wing stone, wisteria yard, wooden bridge, wooden conduit, wooden gate, wooden steps, worshiping stone, Yang stone, yarai fence, yarimizu stream, Yin stone, Yin-Yang stones, yoko ochi (cascade), Yosuien garden, Zen'ami, and zigzag bridge);
* Japanese index.

[Dictionary data structure:
English Index - (1) English Entry & URL to the English language definition with hypertext links to related entries in the dictionary, (2) Kanji/Kana, (3) Romanization [romaji]
Japanese Index - (1) Japanese Romanized Entry & URL to the English language definition with hypertext links to related entries in the dictionary, (2) Kanji/Kana, (3) Corresponding English Entry - ed.]

URL http://www.nabunken.go.jp/database/jgd/index.html

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

Link reported by: Walter Edwards (edwards--at--nabunken.go.jp), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 100

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Afghanistan: Cultural Crossroad at the Heart of Asia - Cultural Property Training Resource

http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/afgh01.html

09 Jul 2010

U.S. Department of Defense Legacy Resource Mangement Program (DoDLRMP) & Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Self-description:
"Situated at the junction that separates India and China to the East from Persia and the Mediterranean world to the West, Afghanistan has been a focal point for migration and invasion, seat of expanding empires, a trading center and pilgrimage route for more than four thousand years.
The monuments, artistic works and archaeological material left behind by the cultures and tribes that inhabited this region provide the Afghan people with a remarkable cultural legacy, which remains under threat after decades of war and civil unrest, large-scale looting and high-profile acts of destruction ordered by the Taliban regime.
Given DoD's continuing efforts to develop cultural intelligence (CULTINT) and adhere to the regulations of The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the Undersecretary of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program offers this Cultural Property Training Resource to CENTCOM personnel serving in Afghanistan."

Site contents:
* Afghanistan;
* Major Focus Areas (The Top Ten Dos and Dont's);
* Protecting Cultural Property (#Doctrine, Theory and Application, # The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict [hyperlink], # "Civil Affairs, Monuments, and Archives, Guide," U.S. Army Publication GTA 41-01-002 (March, 2005) [hyperlink]);
* History & Culture [Timeline of Afghan History and Culture]: (# From Prehistory to the Medes, # Achaemenid Rule, # Alexander the Great, # Seleucid-Mauryan Rule, # Graeco-Bactrian Kings, # Parthian, Indo-Greek, Indo-Parthian, Yuezhi Rule, # Kushan Empire, # Sassanian, Kushano-Sassanian, Hephthalite, Hindu Shahi Rule, # Islamic Period, # Rediscovering the Past,
# 50,000 - 20,000BC, # 3000 - 2000 BC, # 2000 - 1500 BC, # 1100 - circa 550 BC, # 522 - 330 BC, # 330 - 324 BC, # 323 - 180 BC, # 272 - 232 BC, # 250 - 180 BC, # 170 - 145 BC, # 150 - 110 BC, # 155 BC - circa 50 AD, # 20 AD - 135 AD, # 30 AD - circa 245 AD, # 245 - 650 AD, # 652 - 870 AD, # 950 - 1186, # 1148 - 1202, # 1219 - 1330, # 1227 - 1353, # c. 1258 - 1383, # 1381 - 1504, # 1504 - 1700, # 1700 - 1800, # 1800 - 1900, # 1900 - 1950, # 1950 - 2000, # 2000 to present.
# Rediscovering the Past);
* Significant Sites ("Of the more than 3,000 documented archaeological and historical sites, the 216 sites and monuments listed below are considered most significant. [...] Site descriptions and coordinates [derived from BALL, Warwick [and] Jean-Claude Gardin. 1982. Archaeological gazetteer of Afghanistan. 2 vols. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisations. ISBN-10: 2865380408 - ed.] can be accessed via the drop-down menu or by clicking numbers on the map (below)."
# Select sites alphabetically [001. Abu Huraira, 002. Ahangaran, 003. Ahin Push Tepe, 004. Ai Khanum, 005. Alchin, Qunduz, 006. Altyn 1 & 10, 007. Altin Dilyar Tepe, 008. Aq Chapur 1 & 2, 009. Aq Kupruk, 010. Aq Tepe, Qunduz, 011. Aq Tepe, Narawid, 012. Archi, 013. Azadan, 014. Bad-i Asya, 015. Bad-i Sah Ghundai, 016. Bagh-i Nazargah, 017. Balkh: Bala Hissar, 018. Balkh: Haji Pirada Mosque, 019. Balkh: Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine, 020. Balkh: Khwaja Aghacha Mosque, 021. Balkh: Sayyid Saubhan Quli Khan Madrasa, 022. Bamiyan, 023. Begram, 024. Bimaran, 025. Bish Ka'ik, 026. Bish Kapa, 027. Burat Tepe, 028. Burj-i Ghunda, 029. Bust: Arch, 030. Bust: Octagonal Tomb, 031. Bust: Lashkari Bazaar, 031. Lashkari Bazaar, 032. Chaghan Sarai, 033. Chahar Bagh, 034. Chahar Tut, 035. Chakanur, 036. Cham Qal'a, 037. Chaqalaq Tepe, 038. Chehel Burj, Seisten, 039. Chehel Dukhtaran, 040. Chilla Mazar, 041. Chisht, 042. Chul-i Abdan, 043. Dag-i Nasr, 044. Dakka, 045. Darra-i Dadil, 046. Darra-i Kur, 047. Darunta, 048. Dashli Oasis, 049. Dasht-i Nawar, 050. Dasht-i Nawur, 051. Deh-i Minar, 052. Deh Morasi Ghundai, 053. Deh Nahr-i Jadid, 054. Dilbarjin, 055. Diwal-i Khudaidad, 056. Duab-i Mikhzarin, 057. Dubakh Sar, 058. Dun Qishlaq, Turani, 059. Emam Sahib, 060. Emshi Tepe, 061. Farah Bala Hisar, 062. Farkhar, 063. Fazilabad Tepe, 064. Filkhana, 065. Fuladi, 066. Fulakar, 067. Fonduquistan, 068. Gardan Rig, 069. Gardez, 070. Gazurgah, 071. Ghandak, 072. Ghazni: Bahram Shah Minaret, 073. Ghazni: Mas'ud III Minaret, 074. Ghazni: Mas'ud III Palace, 075. Ghazni: Ulugh Beg and Abdullah al-Razzaq Mausoleum, 076. Ghuriyan, 077. Girdai Ghundai, 078. Gudar-i Shah, 079. Gugari, 080. Guldarra, 081. Gul-i Safid, 082. Gurgurawa, 083. Gur Tepe, Qunduz, 084. Hadda, 085. Haibak Bala Hissar, 086. Hashmatkhan, 087. Hazara Samuch, 088. Hazar Sum, Haibak, 089. Herat: Qal'a-i Ikhtiyar al-Din, 090. Herat: Great Mosque, 091. Herat: Gawharshad Musalla Complex, 092. Herat: Abdullah al-Valid Shrine, 093. Herat: Abdullah bin Muawlyah Complex, 094. Herat: Abdul Qasim Shrine, 095. Humai Qal'a, 096. Ishkamish, 097. Ishkamish Bala Hissar, 098. Ishkili, 099. Jaghatu, 100. Jalalabad, 101. Jam, 102. Jani Tup, 103. Jiga Tepe, 104. Kabul: Amir Abdul Rahman Kahn Mausoleum, 105. Kabul: Bala Hissar, 106. Kabul: Chaman a Hazuri, 107. Kabul: Darulaman Palace, 108. Kabul: Masjid-i Shah Do Shamsira Mosque, 109. Kabul: National Museum, 110. Kabul: Sher Darwaza, 111. Kabul: Tepe Maranjan, 112. Kabul: Timur Shah Mausoleum, 113. Kafir Qal'a, Archi, 114. Kafir Qal'a, Rustaq, 115. Kama Dakka, 116. Kandahar, 117. Kanum, 118. Karukh, 119. Khairabad, Faryab, 120. Khair Kahana, 121. Kharaba-i Idukhan, 122. Kharwar (Kafir Kot), 123. Khisht Tepe, 124. Khush Bai, 125. Khush Gildi, 126. Khush Tepe, Tepe Fullol, 127. Khusti Qishlaq, 128. Khwaja Hafiz, 129. Khwaja Nakhi, 130. Kilift, 131. Kirghiz Tepe, 132. Kuh-i Muri, 133. Kuhna Deh, 134. Kuhna Khulm, 135. Kuhna Masjid, 136. Kuhsan, 137. Kul Marut, 138. Kulukh Tepe, 139. Kurdu, 140. Kuri, 141. Kurrindar, 142. Kush Rabat, 143. Kusrutabad, 144. Laghman, 145. Mahdi Khel, 146. Maimana, 147. Mazar-i Sharif, 148. Minar-i Chakri, 149. Mir Bacha Kot, 150. Mir Zakah, 151. Mirwais Baba, 152. Mundigak, 153. Nad-i'Ali, 154. Nadir Tepe, 155. Nagara Ghundi, 156. Nandarra, 157. Nariman, 158. Nimlik, 159. Nishk, 160. Paitava, 161. Parishan Tepe, 162. Peshwaran, 163. Post-i Gau, 164. Qal'a-i Dukhtar, 165. Qal'a-i Fath, 166. Qal'a-i Kachala, 167. Qal'a-i Nau, Seistan, 168. Qal'a-i Qaisar, 169. Qal'a-i Wabu, 170. Qal'a-i Zal, 171. Quichi, 172. Qunduz, Qunduz Bala Hissar, 173. Rabat-i Sahib Zada, 174. Sa'id Qal'a Tepe, 175. Sajawand, 176. Sakhar, 177. Sar-i Pul, 178. Sar-i Sang, 179. Sar-o Tar / Tar-o Sar, 180. Sar Rustaq, 181. Shah Tepe, 182. Shah-i Mashhad, 183. Shahr-i Barbar, 184. Shahr-i Ghulghula, 185. Shahr-i Kuhna, 186. Shahr-i Safa, 187. Shahr-i Zuhak, 188. Shakar Darra, 189. Shalatak, 190. Shamarq, 191. Sheberghan, 192. Shiwaki, 193. Shorotak, 194. Shortughai, 195. Sra Ghundai, Ghazni, 196. Surkh Kotal, 197. Surkh Minar, 198. Takht-i Rustam, 199. Tarakun, 200. Tash Guzar, Balkh, 201. Tatarang Zar, 202. Tepe Ahingaran, 203. Tepe Khawaja Lahori, 204. Tepe Maranjan, 205. Tepe Sardar, 206. Tepe Skandar, 207. Tillya Tepe, 208. Topdarra, 209. Urta Buz, 210. Uruz Bacha, 211. Wardak, 212. Yaman, 213. Zadiyan, 214. Zindajan, 215. Ziyaratah, 216. Zuhaka],
# Select sites by province [Badakhshan, Badghis, Balkh, Bamiyan, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Helmand, Herat, Jauzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Nimruz, Ningrahar, Paktia, Parwan, Qunduz, Samangan, Tarkhar, Wardak, and Zabul Province],
# Select sites from the interactive map);
* Laws, Treaties & Enforcement (# text of the Afganistan Cultural Property Law 2004, # January 2004 statement 'The Impact of War on Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage' by Mr Abdul Wasey Feroozi, Director General of the [Afghan] National Institute of Archaeology, # General Order 1A, # Afghanistan Cultural Property Law, # Immovable Cultural Property, # Moveable Cultural Property, # Law Enforcement & Penalties, # In-Theater Inspection & Interdiction, # DHS Inspection);
* Test Your [Cultural Intelligence & Regulations] Knowledge.

URL http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/afgh01.html

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 / Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Government / 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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Select Bibliography on Buddhism in Western Central Asia

http://www.orientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/bud/litera.htm

05 Jul 2010

Seminar fuer Orientalische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, Institut fuer Altertumswissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

[An extensive list of scholarly papers and monographs published 1927-1998 in Russian, English, and French - ed.]

Site contents:
* Comprehensive literature;
* Literature according to [archaeological] sites (# Adzhina Tepe (Bactria, Tadzhikistan), # Airtam (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Ak-Beshim (Kirgizstan), # Dal'verzin Tepe (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Fayaz Tepe (Termez) (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Kafyr Qala (Bactria, Tadzhikistan), # Kara Tepe (Termez) (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Khovaling (Khisht Tepe) (Tadzhikistan), # Krasnoretshenskoe (Kirgizstan), # Kuva (Uzbekistan), # Merv (Turkmenistan), # Qala-i Kafirnigan (Bactria, Tadzhikistan), # Tshor Dinak (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Ushtur-Mullo (Bactria, Tadzhikistan), # Zar Tepe (Bactria, Uzbekistan), # Zurmala Tower (Termez) (Bactria, Uzbekistan));
* Relevant links to the WWW (Central Asia, Buddhism and Buddhist art, History and coins).

URL http://www.orientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/bud/litera.htm

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.orientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/bud/litera.htm

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 - government - 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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Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty (DGSD)

http://songgis.ucmercedlibrary.info/

02 Jul 2010

Library, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.

Supplied note:
"The DGSD is a MySQL database that records the 3,828 units that existed at any time in the administrative hierarchy of China's Song dynasty (960-1276 CE); along with attributes such as population, civil and military ranks, and locations of centers of state industry. All of the entities are spatially referenced, and all events of spatial change (establishment, abolition, promotion, and demotion of jurisdictions) are recorded and abolition, promotion, and demotion of jurisdictions) are recorded and temporally referenced. The database, and shapefiles derived from it, are freely available for download and use under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike terms.
Please contact me or co-author Elijah Meeks (emeeks--at--stanford.edu) if you have any questions or feedback about the DGSD.
Best, Ruth Mostern."

Self-description:
"In 1958, Sinologist Hope Wright published a work entitled An Alphabetical List of Geographical Names in Sung China. Originally published in Paris by the Centre de Recherches Historiques of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and reprinted as a second-generation photocopy in 1992 by the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies [http://www.humanities.uci.edu/eastasian/SungYuan/JSYS/index.htm], the Alphabetical List is now out of print.
Wright's compilation is the most comprehensive print source for Song geography in any language. The Digital Gazetteer of Song Dynasty China (DGSD) is a MySQL database derived primarily from the Alphabetical List.
The Alphabetical List is an index to every jurisdiction in the Song (960-1276) spatial administrative hierarchy named in one or more of the following three Song texts: the Song History (Song shi) Geography Monograph, the 980 Records of the Universal Realm in the Taiping Era (Taiping huanyu ji), and the 1085 Treatise on the Nine Territories in the Yuanfeng Reign (Yuanfeng jiuyu zhi)."

Site contents:
* Overview;
* Data (Documentation, Shapefiles, SQL Database, Access Database, Terms of Use);
* Data Structure (Entities, Historical Instances, Point Location, Attributes);
* Data Types (Attribute Types, Change Types, Feature Types, Rank Types, Source Types );
* Methodology (Example of Ningyuan) ["The DGSD attempts to reconcile historical ambiguities that Hope Wright, other authors of reference works -- and indeed Song bureaucrats and authors themselves -- were often able to elide."];
* Visualization (Graphs, Maps);
* RSS Feed;
* [Links] (# China Historical GIS (Harvard) [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/], # Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (Academica Sinica) [http://ccts.ascc.net/]).

URL http://songgis.ucmercedlibrary.info/

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

Link reported by: Ruth Mostern (rmostern--at--ucmerced.edu), h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

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