digitizeMANIPUR
digitizeMANIPUR will preserve rare and endangered medieval Tibeto-Burman manuscripts from the Eastern Himalayan state of Manipur in northeastern India. It will bring together scholars and communities of practice from across various disciplines and professions.
digiizeMANIPUR is a project of the Appalachian Center in the use digital technologies to initiate and foster the study of traditional and regional cultures considered outside the mainstream "foothill cultures" for what they teach about society, socialization, identity, and self-representation. It will focus on Manipur and its interaction with Appalachian cultures.
Scholars from the University of Kentucky and the New York Public Library will travel to Manipur in the Fall of 2007. They will assess the condition and scope of manuscripts in the N. Khelchandra Archive in Manipur to start this collaborative digitization project.
The preservation of extant Manipuri manuscripts using digital and information technology will introduce to Asian Studies in the United States the regional study of the rich but neglected Tibeto-Burman cultures of the Eastern Himalayan foothills.
UK Appalachian Center, eknight@uky.edu UK Research in Computing for the Humanities and Digital Libraries New York Public Library The N. Khelchandra Archive, Manipur