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TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY
OF THE EASTERN SILK ROAD THROUGH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
The Silk Routes
Sde 7
DunhuangCave 16 and the entranceto Cave 17. Photograph by MA Stein (retouched).
Or.8210/S.5603
IOL Tib J 310.1209
Tibetan manuscript forms
IOL Tib J 321
Over twenty languages and scripts,
including Chinese, Tibetan, various
Iranian languages, various Indian
languages, Turkic languages etc.
Scope and data
• 100,000 manuscripts in
collections worldwide
requiring 250,000+
images
• over 200 archaeological
sites in Eastern Central
Asia
• 200,000 other
archaeological artefacts,
site plans, photographs,
historical maps, pages of
reports, notes, diaries etc.
Freer Gallery of Art
The British Library
UCLA
The British
Museum
Institute of Oriental Studies, St
Petersburg
Chester Beatty
Library
Staatsbibliothek/BBAW, Berlin
Victoria & Albert
Museum
BnF, Paris
Morgan Library
Art Museum,
Princeton
East Asian Library,
Princeton
Museum for Asian Art, Berlin
Musée Guimet, Paris
Berkeley
The National Library of China, Beijing
The Dunhuang Academy, Dunhuang
Academia Sinica, Taipei
SOME SILK ROAD
COLLECTIONS
WORLDWIDE
Ryukoku University, Kyoto
National Museum, Seoul
National Museum of India, New Delhi
One item,
many catalogues
An example of an XML catalogue entry (using the
TEI Master manuscript description elements)
From an electronic to
a printed catalogue
IDP: Putting the Silk Road Online
*100,000 manuscripts in collections worldwide with
250,000+ images
•60,000 online with 160,000 images (over 70,000
items with 200,000 images by January 2009).
Over 70% with basic cataloguing records, 50%
with full records.
•over 200 archaeological sites in Eastern Central Asia
•150+ online
•200,000 other archeological artefacts, site plans,
photographs, historical maps, pages of reports,
diaries, notes.
•20,000+ online