Digital South Asia Library
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Digital South Asia Library
2005-
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- [Dt.:] Die Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Center for Research Libraries, führenden Universitäten der USA und südasiatischen Bildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen. Über die DSAL-Homepage kann auf eine Vielzahl von Digitalisaten zugegriffen werden. Dies sind z.B. Lehrbücher für verschiedene südasiatische Sprachen sowie Bücher, aber auch Zeitschriftenartikel oder Karten. Zudem stellt DSAL statistisches Material zu Südasien von der Kolonialzeit bis in die Gegenwart zu Verfügung. Erwähnenswert sind auch die Online-Wörterbücher zu verschiedenen Sprachen Südasiens. - [Engl.:] The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S.
- universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia. DSAL includes following services: Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA), Photographs, which are arranged in databases organized by the original collections, Catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic, statistic materials, pedagogical books, general scholarly titles, journals and newspapers. The big image stock of the Digital Library contains 6 collections: three collections of photographs taken during the World War II by American Servicemen Glenn S.
- Hensley (The Hensley Photo Library), Robert Keagle (The Keagle Photograph Library) and Frank Bond (The Bond Photograph Library); The American Institute of Indian Studies from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, India, (over 125,000 images on architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics); the Government College of Arts and Crafts (a photograph collection dated form the mid 1800s, subjects range from the hill tribes of Niligiris to pagodas and monuments of the Madras Presidency); the Oriental and India Office Collection (prepared by Johan Falconer, the curator of Asia, Pacific & Africa collections of the British Library, under development)