Project Team
Digital Himalaya has a team of 9 individuals who work together to develop user-friendly and accessible online resources: * Sarah Harrison * Daniel Ho * Hikmat Khadka * Wachiraporn Klungthanaboon *__Funding_
For_the_first_five_years_of_active_development,_Digital_Himalaya_was_successful_in_receiving_competitive_grants_from_many_organizations._Once_the_site_was_launched_and_most_of_the_collections_were_digitized_and_accessible,_it_became_increasingly_difficult_to_find_resources_to_maintain_the_online_collections._The_project_still_receives_support_through_donations_from_individuals_and_foundations,_in_addition_to_experimenting_with_small_referral_commissions_through_ artin_Gaenszle *_Ann_Gammie *_David_Germano *_Mark_Goodridge *_David_Holmberg *_Michael_Hutt_(academic_and_translator)">Michael_Hutt *_Kathryn_March *_Christina_Monson Since_its_establishment,_the_Digital_Himalaya_project_has_benefited_from_skilled_student_interns_and_research_assistants_in_Canada,_Nepal,_the_United_Kingdom,_and_the_United_States.__Funding_
For_the_first_five_years_of_active_development,_Digital_Himalaya_was_successful_in_receiving_competitive_grants_from_many_organizations._Once_the_site_was_launched_and_most_of_the_collections_were_digitized_and_accessible,_it_became_increasingly_difficult_to_find_resources_to_maintain_the_online_collections._The_project_still_receives_support_through_donations_from_individuals_and_foundations,_in_addition_to_experimenting_with_small_referral_commissions_through_Amazon_(company)">Amazon__Funding_
For_the_first_five_years_of_active_development,_Digital_Himalaya_was_successful_in_receiving_competitive_grants_from_many_organizations._Once_the_site_was_launched_and_most_of_the_collections_were_digitized_and_accessible,_it_became_increasingly_difficult_to_find_resources_to_maintain_the_online_collections._The_project_still_receives_support_through_donations_from_individuals_and_foundations,_in_addition_to_experimenting_with_small_referral_commissions_through_Amazon_(company)">Amazon__Funding_
For_the_first_five_years_of_active_development,_Digital_Himalaya_was_successful_in_receiving_competitive_grants_from_many_organizations._Once_the_site_was_launched_and_most_of_the_collections_were_digitized_and_accessible,_it_became_increasingly_difficult_to_find_resources_to_maintain_the_online_collections._The_project_still_receives_support_through_donations_from_individuals_and_foundations,_in_addition_to_experimenting_with_small_referral_commissions_through_Amazon_(company)">Amazon__Funding_
For_the_first_five_years_of_active_development,_Digital_Himalaya_was_successful_in_receiving_competitive_grants_from_many_organizations._Once_the_site_was_launched_and_most_of_the_collections_were_digitized_and_accessible,_it_became_increasingly_difficult_to_find_resources_to_maintain_the_online_collections._The_project_still_receives_support_through_donations_from_individuals_and_foundations,_in_addition_to_experimenting_with_small_referral_commissions_through_Amazon_(company)">AmazonFunding
For the first five years of active development, Digital Himalaya was successful in receiving competitive grants from many organizations. Once the site was launched and most of the collections were digitized and accessible, it became increasingly difficult to find resources to maintain the online collections. The project still receives support through donations from individuals and foundations, in addition to experimenting with small referral commissions through Amazon (company)">Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...Collections
The Digital Himalaya archive has more than 200,000 pages of scanned texts, hundreds of hours of video and audio, over 1,000 maps, and a large collection of original ethnographic content. The project has digitised an extensive set of back issues of Himalayan journals and maps. There are currently 13 collections available, and the newest addition to the archive is a collection of bird reports from Nepal.Birds of Nepal
Thanks to Tim Inskipp and Carol Inskipp, this collection has 2,155 references on birds in Nepal available to the public, dated from 1975 to 1999. The archive contains multiple sources, from books and scientific papers to published and unpublished reports, offering a valuable source for researchers interested in Himalayan bird populations.Census of Nepal 2001
This collection contains census data from the National Census of Nepal 2001. The Digital Himalaya team sorted the data for Nepal's 75 districts and their VDCs (Village Development Committee) making this public data available for any user to search and download.Fürer-Haimendorf Film Collection
This collection contains interviews with ProfessorFilms
Digital Himalaya is continuously expanding its online collections to include both historical and contemporary film and video. Below is a list of films available through the project's archive:Journals of Himalayan Studies
Digital Himalaya archives contain scanned copies of many journals, magazines and publications of Himalayan studies for free download. Here is a list of available titles:Maps
The web-based map collection includes:Music and Audio from the Himalayas
The Digital Himalaya music and audio archive includes:Naga Videodisc
The Naga Videodisc is a multimedia resource created by Alan Macfarlane at Cambridge University in the late 1980s. It includes a large amount of ethnographic material about Naga communities. With the support of Sarrah Harrison, the contents of the videodisc were converted into an online database that uses Bamboo as a retrieval system, with easily searchable XML files. Some film clips can be downloaded directly from the Digital Himalaya page, but the full collection can be seen on the Shanti Database at the University of Virginia.Rare Books & Manuscripts
This collection offers digitized versions of multiple rare books and manuscripts that are in the public domain. The archive contains files in PDF format, and are free to download.Thak Archive
This is a multimedia archive with photographs, films, census data, and economic and social data of the Gurung village of Thak in central western Nepal. These ethnographic records cover more than 30 years of work, and were collected by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison. The archive is regularly updated.Thangmi Archive
This is an emerging collection of linguistic and cultural data relating to the Thangmi community of northeastern Nepal. These collections were deposited by Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman, who have been working in partnership with Thangmi communities in Nepal and India since 1997. This archive gives users access to an online trilingual Thangmi - Nepali - English dictionary (in PDF format), recordings of Thangmi songs from the Reng Patangko collection, and film clips of Thangmi rituals, all available for streaming and download.Williamson Collection
This collection contains films and photographs fromWutu Collection
This collection contains 18 short films from 1996 showing the Wutu ritual, an exorcism ritual performed by the Monguor (Tu) people of the Gnyan thog Village. The films were shot by Zhu Yonzhong, with editing by Gerald Roche. The collection is stored in an archive at the University of Cambridge.References
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