Pilot projects
Principal investigator: Mr Abhijit Bhattacharya
Host institution: Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta
Title of project: Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions in Eastern India
Location of archival material: India
Award: £10,009
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Ms Fei Huang
Host institution: Sun Yat-sen University
Title of project: Survey on surviving dongjing archives in Jianshu, Tonghai and Mengzi
Location of archival material: China
Award: £9,180
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Irina Katkova
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Endangered manuscripts of Western Sumatra. Collections of Sufi brotherhoods
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £6,550
Duration: 6 months
Principal investigator: Dr Victoria Kolesnikova
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Saving archival documents of archaeological researches conducted during the 1920s and 1930s in Ukraine
Location of archival material: Ukraine
Award: £8,800
Duration: 11 months
Principal investigator: Dr Fakhriati M. Thahir
Host institution: State Islamic University Jakarta
Title of project: Acehnese manuscripts in danger of extinction: identifying and preserving the private collections located in Pidie and Aceh Besar regencies
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £10,987
Duration: 10 months
Principal investigator: Dr Thirmal Rao Repally
Host institution: Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University
Title of project: Study and collection of Hakku Patras and other documents among folk communities in Andhra Pradesh
Location of archival material: India
Award: £10,261
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mr S Suryadi
Host institution: Leiden University
Title of project: Locating, documenting and digitising: preserving the endangered manuscripts of the legacy of the Sultanate of Buton, South-Eastern Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £29,420
Duration: 14 months
Major projects
Principal investigator: Dr Philip Alperson
Host institution: Temple University
Title of project: Assessment and preservation of the old Vietnamese École Française d'Extrême Orient archive in ancient ideographic Nôm script
Location of archival material: Vietnam
Award: £43,200
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Suresh Chandvankar
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Digitising archival material pertaining to ‘Young India' label gramophone records
Location of archival material: India
Award: £21,300
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Graeme Counsel
Host institution: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Title of project: Syliphone – an early African recording label
Location of archival material: Guinea
Award: £8,821
Duration: 4 months
Principal investigator: Rev. Agustino De Vasconcelos
Host institution: Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat
Title of project: Preserving East Timor's endangered archives: stage two
Location of archival material: East Timor
Award: £15,572
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr Siddig Elzailaee
Host institution: London Metropolitan University
Title of project: The endangered archives of Sudanese Trade Unions (1899-2005) – major project
Location of archival material: Sudan
Award: £26,448
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mr Sundar Ganesan
Host institution: Roja Muthiah Research Library
Title of project: Preserving early print literature on the history of Tamilnadu
Location of archival material: India
Award: £49,885
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Professor Anne Gilliland
Host institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Title of project: Strategies for archiving the endangered publications of French India (1800-1923)
Location of archival material: India
Award: £39,130
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez
Host institution: Harriet Tubman Institute, York University
Title of project: Digitisation of endangered African diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba
Location of archival material: Cuba
Award: £44,246
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Dr Peter Jackson
Host institution: Australian National University
Title of project: Thai rainbow archives project: a digitised collection of Thai gay, lesbian and transgender publications
Location of archival material: Thailand
Award: £53,934
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Ms Judy Seidman
Host institution: South African History Archive
Title of project: Digitising the photographic archive of Zenzo Nkobi
Location of archival material: South Africa
Award: £8,315
Duration: 6 months
Principal investigator: Dr Jian Xu
Host institution: Sun Yat-sen University
Title of project: Digitisation of Yi archives in south dialect in Yunnan, China
Location of archival material: China
Award: £48,880
Duration: 18 months
Principal investigator: Dr Tigran Zargaryan
Host institution: Fundamental Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences
Title of project: Preservation through digitisation of endangered Armenian rare books and making them accessible on the Web (phase 1)
Location of archival material: Armenia
Award: £46,795
Duration: 24 months
