From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme - cover image

Copyright

Maja Kominko. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.

Published On

2015-02-16

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-062-8
Hardback978-1-78374-063-5
PDF978-1-78374-064-2
HTML978-1-80064-479-3
EPUB978-1-78374-065-9
MOBI978-1-78374-066-6

Language

  • English

Print Length

722 pages (lxviii + 654 )

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 37 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.44" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 38 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.5" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback2195g (77.43oz)
Hardback2601g (91.75oz)

Media

Illustrations230
Tables18
Audio28

OCLC Number

904562444

BIC

  • GLP
  • JFC
  • JFCD

BISAC

  • ART056000
  • SOC002010

LCC

  • Z701.3.D54

Keywords

  • Archives
  • documentary heritage
  • preservation
  • digitisation
  • Endangered Archives Programme
  • cultural heritage
  • British Library

From Dust to Digital

Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

  • Maja Kominko (editor)
Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe.

From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.

Reviews

Not only is the collection From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme a valuable addition to any academic library, it is an important proof of the importance of the funding programme itself. It remains to be hoped that many more collections can be successfully digitised, and that, as envisaged, the images shall be made fully available online.

Eugenia Sokolinski

"Maja Kominko, ed., From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme". Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin (2410-0951), vol. 1, no. 2, 2016. doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.425

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Contents

  • Heleen Plaisier
  • Elena Marushiakova
  • Vesselin Popov
  • Jane Landers
  • Pablo Gómez
  • José Polo Acuña
  • Courtney J. Campbell

Introduction

(pp. xxxvii–xxxviii)
  • Lisbet Rausing
  • Peter Baldwin

Contributors

Maja Kominko

(editor)
Manager of Cultural Grants Portfolio at Arcadia Fund