From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
Contains illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 632-634, index
ISBN 978-1-78374-062-8 (pbk); 978-1-78374-064-2 (pdf)
"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 signifi cance of the collections identified, catalogued and digiti sed 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." (Back cover)
Introduction / Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, xxxvii
Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme / Barry Supple, xxxix
The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years / Anthea Casexliii, xliii
What the Endangered Archives Programme does, xlvii
Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history / Maja Kominko, xlix
I. INSCRIPTIONS
1 The “written landscape” of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains / Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci and Savino di Lernia, 1
II. MANUSCRIPTS
2 Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom manuscripts project / Stephen Morey, 31
3 Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts / Heleen Plaisier, 67
4 Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia / Michael Gervers and Jacek Tomaszewski, 89
5 Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya / Anne Bang, 135
6 In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné / Sophie Sarin, 173
III. DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES
7 The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers / Elena Mariushakova and Veselin Popov, 189
8 Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes / Gabriela Ramos, 225
9 Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives / Jane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña and Courtney J. Campbell, 259
10 Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study / Mohammed Bashir Salau, 293
11 Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality / Fallou Ngom, 331
12 Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre / Qasem Abu Harb, 377
IV. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
13 A charlatan’s album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) / Irina Podgorny, 417
14 Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920) / Kyle Jackson, 445
15 The photographs of Baluev: capturing the “socialist transformation” of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 / David Anderson, Mikhail S. Batashev and Craig Campbell, 487
16 Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio / David Zeitlyn, 531
V. SOUND ARCHIVES
17 Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée / Graeme Counsel, 547
18 Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music / Jane Lewisohn, 587
19 The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia / Tjeerd De Graaf and Victor Denisov, 617
Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme / Barry Supple, xxxix
The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years / Anthea Casexliii, xliii
What the Endangered Archives Programme does, xlvii
Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history / Maja Kominko, xlix
I. INSCRIPTIONS
1 The “written landscape” of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains / Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci and Savino di Lernia, 1
II. MANUSCRIPTS
2 Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom manuscripts project / Stephen Morey, 31
3 Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts / Heleen Plaisier, 67
4 Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia / Michael Gervers and Jacek Tomaszewski, 89
5 Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya / Anne Bang, 135
6 In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné / Sophie Sarin, 173
III. DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES
7 The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers / Elena Mariushakova and Veselin Popov, 189
8 Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes / Gabriela Ramos, 225
9 Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives / Jane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña and Courtney J. Campbell, 259
10 Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study / Mohammed Bashir Salau, 293
11 Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality / Fallou Ngom, 331
12 Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre / Qasem Abu Harb, 377
IV. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
13 A charlatan’s album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) / Irina Podgorny, 417
14 Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920) / Kyle Jackson, 445
15 The photographs of Baluev: capturing the “socialist transformation” of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 / David Anderson, Mikhail S. Batashev and Craig Campbell, 487
16 Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio / David Zeitlyn, 531
V. SOUND ARCHIVES
17 Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée / Graeme Counsel, 547
18 Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music / Jane Lewisohn, 587
19 The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia / Tjeerd De Graaf and Victor Denisov, 617
