Pilot projects
Principal investigator: Mr Yacine Daddi Addoun
Host institution: York University
Title of project: Ibadi private libraries in the Mzab Heptapolis, Algeria
Location of archival material: Algeria
Award: £11,570
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Ramesh Dhungel
Host institution: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Title of project: Feasibility survey of documenting selected 18th-20th century written heritage from Nepal
Location of archival material: Nepal
Award: £10,800
Duration: 11 months
Principal investigator: Dr Siddig Elzailaee
Host institution: Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Title of project: Endangered archives of Sudanese trade unions, 1899-2005
Location of archival material: Sudan
Award: £8,200
Duration: 4 months
Principal investigator: Ms Nadine Hunt
Host institution: York University, Canada
Title of project: Inventory of archival holdings in Jamaica
Location of archival material: Jamaica
Award: £11,023
Duration: 8 months
Principal investigator: Professor Tariel Mamedov
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Pages of Azerbaijan sound heritage
Location of archival material: Azerbaijan
Award: £8,400
Duration: 10 months
Principal investigator: Dr Veselin Popov
Host institution: Minority Studies Society Studii Romani
Title of project: Preservation of Gypsy/Roma historical and cultural heritage in Bulgaria
Location of archival material: Bulgaria
Award: £9,990
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Anna Senarslan
Host institution: Azerbaijan Archive of Sound Recordings
Title of project: Voices of the living past: the ‘ashug' minstrel music of Azerbaijan
Location of archival material: Azerbaijan
Award: £9,648
Duration: 3 months
Principal investigator: Mr Roger Stringer
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Preserving and digitising the Documentation and Resource Centre of the African Publishers' Network (APNET)
Location of archival material: Ghana
Award: £2,712
Duration: 5 months
Principal investigator: Mr Jesús Varillas
Host institution: Museo de Arte de Lima
Title of project: Documenting regional artistic traditions: Peru, ca. 1750-1950
Location of archival material: Peru
Award: £10,000
Duration: 6 months
Major projects
Principal investigator: Mr Qasem Abu Harb
Host institution: Council for British Research in the Levant
Title of project: Preservation of historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem
Location of archival material: East Jerusalem
Award: £50,200
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Rossana Barragan
Host institution: Archivo de La Paz, Bolivia
Title of project: Digitisation of Bolivian indigenous communities records on ayllu structure, tax and land tenure
Location of archival material: Bolivia
Award: £80,244
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mr Hans Berger
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Buddhist archive of photography in Luang Prabang, Laos – major project
Location of archival material: Laos
Award: £76,058
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Anatoliy Boyko
Host institution: M. Hrushevs'ki Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Sources Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Title of project: Preservation, storage and accessibility for archives of the pre-industrial rural society of the Ukrainian Steppe
Location of archival material: Ukraine
Award: £27,645
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri
Host institution: Jadavpur University
Title of project: Archiving ‘popular market' Bengali books
Location of archival material: India
Award: £27,023
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Professor Amlan Das Gupta
Host institution: Jadavpur University
Title of project: Digital archive of north Indian classical music
Location of archival material: India
Award: £26,108
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Mr Kanak Mani Dixit
Host institution: Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
Title of project: Preservation through digitisation of rare negatives and photographs from Nepal
Location of archival material: Nepal
Award: £25,121
Duration: 7 months
Principal investigator: Fr Francis Hezel
Host institution: Micronesian Seminar
Title of project: Collection and digitisation of old music in pre-literate Micronesian society
Location of archival material: Micronesia
Award: £11,343
Duration: 18 months
Principal investigator: Dr Ulrcih Kozok
Host institution: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title of project: Digitising ‘sacred heirloom' in private collections in Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £29,840
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Professor Yu-Xiao Long
Host institution: Guizhou University
Title of project: Urgent rescue and preservation of Jinping archives of old forestry contracts in Guizhou, China (phase I)
Location of archival material: China
Award: £56,026
Duration: 15 months
Principal investigator: Dr Giacomo Macola
Host institution: University of Kent
Title of project: Preserving the archives of the United National Independence Party of Zambia
Location of archival material: Zambia
Award: £25,992
Duration: 10 months
Principal investigator: Ms Lucrecia Arriola de Paniagua
Host institution: CIRMA, Guatemala
Title of project: Rescue of two photographic collections of rapidly changing cultures in rural Guatemala dating from the 1890s through to the 1930s.
Location of archival material: Guatemala
Award: £51,826
Duration: 14 months
Principal investigator: Dr Irina Popova
Host institution: Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Title of project: Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Origin of archival material: Northwest China
Award: £51,672
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Jan van der Putten
Host institution: National University of Singapore
Title of project: Riau manuscripts: the gateway to the Malay intellectual world
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £11,272
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Verlon Stone
Host institution: Indiana University
Title of project: Rescuing Liberian history – preserving the photographs of William VS Tubman, Liberia’s longest serving President
Location of archival material: Liberia
Award: £38,491
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Jian Xu
Host institution: Sun Yat-sen University
Title of project: Preservation of the last hieroglyphic manuscripts in China: Shui archives in Libo, Guizhou
Location of archival material: China
Award: £44,220
Duration: 18 months
Principal investigator: Mrs Zuriati
Host institution: Andalas University
Title of project: The digitisation of Minangkabau's manuscript collections in Suraus
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £18,613
Duration: 8 months
