via NIU Today, 27 October 2021: A feature on the Cham Manuscript digitisation project hosted by the NIU libraries.
The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL), a project of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) that began with a federal grant in 2005, is a virtual Southeast Asia treasure trove hosted by NIU Libraries. A digital archive of textual, still image, sound and video resources, SEADL is a free resource for anyone studying or just interested in the region.
For the past eight years, Hao Phan, curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Collection, has been laser-focused on finding and digitally preserving rare manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam. Phan received an initial grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme in 2013 to survey Cham materials in Vietnam and set up logistics for eventually digitizing them. After that, Phan received two grants in 2014 and 2017 to digitize the materials.
Source: NIU Today | Conserving fragile history through digital preservation
