Data Repositories and References

These pages usually link to external sites that were active at the time of posting; sometimes websites may be temporarily down or may have reorganised their underlying architecture or have even closed down – in these cases the links may not be available. Unless stated, I have no connection with the organisations or entities in these links or control over their content. They are sorted alphabetically. A full index of links can be found in the Resources page which have links sorted by themes, including the original form of data repositories, Libraries. If you have a link to suggest, please get in touch! Don’t forget to also check out the other resource pages found in this site:

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• AATA Online – Run by the Getty Conservation Institutue, AATA Online is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
• Academia.edu – A social network for academics. Many academics choose to store a copy of their research on their profile page, so if you find a paper that is pay-walled, you might possibly find the author here and request a copy direct from them.
• Angkor Archive – Digital archive run by the Angkor International Center of Documentation of the APSARA Authority.
• Angkor Database – Online resource by MAADS Living Cambodia in association with Templation Angkor Hotel Siem Reap, holding a collection of digital and print books about Angkor.
• Antique Maps, Views and Plans featuring the Kessler Collection – A collection of maps of the Asia-Pacific region dating from the 17th century in the Australian National University Open Research collection.
• Archaeological Ethics Database – This database is an ongoing project by the Register of Professional Archaeologists (the Register) and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA). The goal of the database is to bring together sources on archaeological ethics in a single place for the use of students, researchers, and professional archaeologists.
• ArThemis – Database by the University of Geneva containing case notes about art and cultural property disputes settled through alternative resolution methods or traditional judicial proceedings.
• Atlas of Mutual Heritage – A database with information, maps, drawings, prints and paintings of locations related to the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) and the West-Indische Compagnie (WIC).
• Banyan – EFEO’s Digital Library with over 10,000 documents online.
• Charles Higham’s Excavation Records: Prof. Charles Higham has made his excavation records of Ban Lum Khao, Ban Na Di, Ban Non Wat, Khok Phanom Di, Noen U-Loke, Non Ban Jak, Non Muang Kao anf Nong Nor publicly available for re-use (with attribution).
• A Chinese Gazetteer of Foreign Lands: A new translation of Part 1 of the Zhufan zhi 諸蕃志 (1225) by Shao-yun Yang
• Chinese Historical Place Name Directory – A website by Academia Sinica with a searchable database of Chinese toponyms from the Ming Dynasty to present.
• The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā – The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā is a publication of the École française d’Extrême-Orient, realized in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. This project aims to recover, preserve, study and make accessible the corpus of inscriptions of ancient Campā (in present Việt Nam), written either in Sanskrit or in Old Cam.
• Cultural Map of Thailand – Interactive map showing this different kinds of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Thailand.
• The Database of the Restoration Work of the Southern Library of Bayon – By a collaboration between Japan and the APSARA Authority.
• Digital Historical Maps of Southeast Asia – Online resource by Yale-NUS collecting pre-1900 maps
• Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts – Containing images of over 12,000 Lao texts made available for study. Collaboration by  the National Library of Laos, the University of Passau, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• Digitising Thai-Mon palm-leaf manuscripts – A project under the British Endangered Archives Programme, a collection of scanned palm-leaf manuscripts.
• DREAMSEA – Online repository of Southeast Asian Manuscripts  by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Indonesia, in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Manuscripts Culture (CSMC), University of Hamburg, Germany.

• EFEO Archives – Website of the physical archives of the École française d’Extrême-Orient in Paris, but they also have a sizeable collection of digital collections available to view online.
• EFEO Image archives – Archival images collected by the École française d’Extrême-Orient, available online.
• E. Moore Library – The E.Moore Library is a specialist collection focusing on the art, archaeology, anthropology, history and religion of Southeast Asia and neighbouring regions.
• France-Vietnam des patrimoines partagés en ligne – Online repository of shared French and Vietnamese documentary heritage, a collaboration between the National Libraries of France and Vietnam.
• Global Rock Art Database – A global database of rock art sites and projects run by PERAHU, Griffith University in Australia
• Globalise – Online project by the Huygens Institute and partners to digitise the archives of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC)
• Google Scholar – Google’s search engine for academic research.
• H. Otley Beyer Ethnographic Collection – Digital collection hosted by the National Library of the Philippines
• Historical Ecology of the Mekong in a set of 5 diachronic maps – Open Access map by Marko Kallio and Veronica Walker Vadillo
• ICOMOS Documentation Centre – The ICOMOS Documentation Centre is the primary repository for the original documentation of the cultural and mixed (natural and cultural) properties that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1978.
• Khastara – An online database of the National Library of Indonesia featuring collections related to the Nusantara region.
• Khmer Inscriptions Program – Online database of K-inscriptions. In French.
• Lan Sunnary Sound Archives – Page in French, sound recordings by Lan Sunnary, a Khmer student at the Faculty of Archeology of the Royal University of Fine Arts of Phnom Penh and refugee in France in 1970. His recordings capture lectures by Pou Saveros and Bernard Philippe Groslier.
• Malay Concordance Project – A searchable corpus of classical Malay texts.
• MERAL Portal – The MERAL Portal provides free and open access to research publications (from international and local journals, theses, conference papers, etc.) and to teaching and learning materials from Universities in Myanmar.
• Mao Kun Explorer – Visual guide to the 15th century Mao Kun map which stretches from China to the Indian Ocean.
• Museum of Stone Tools – Online repository of scans of stone tools from around the world, including some examples from Indonesia.
• Navanurak นวนุรักษ์ – Digital database by the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) documenting the natural and cultural heritage of Thailand.
• Peter Brown’s Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropolgy Page – Resource page by Prof. Peter Brown, containing resources from Southeast Asia, East Asia and Australia.
• Persée – Digital Open Access library of French scholarly journals
• The Philippine Registry of Cultural Property (PRECUP) is the repository of all information pertaining to cultural properties in the Philippines deemed significant to Philippine cultural heritage. It was established through Article V Section 4 of the National Heritage Act of 2009 Republic Act 10066.
• Primary Sources: History of Burma – Collection of links to historical primary sources related to Burma (Myanmar)
• Primary Sources: History of the Malay World – Collection of links to historical primary sources related to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei
• Researching Colonial History of the Malay World like a Millennial – Comprehensive list of digial resources curated by Simon Soon of the Cultural Centre, University of Malaya.
• Researchgate.net – Another social network for academics and a potential way to get papers that are paywalled by contacting them directly, if they have a profile on this page.

• SahulArch – A database for archaeology dates (radioncarbon, OSL, TL) across the Sahul shelf.
• SEA-ARK – This resource page disseminates published and unpublished reports pertinent to the pursuit of Southeast Asian Archaeology. Hosted in the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (now Temasek History Research Centre) in the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
• Silpakorn Online – The digital center for the Fine Arts Department of Thailand, where you can access and download publications and materials.
• South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA) – The ABIA Project is a global network of scholars co-operating on an annotated bibliographic database for publishers covering South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology.
• Southeast Asian Archaeological Site Reports – Technical data repository run by NUS Press, with site reports from Singapore and Indonesia
• Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-Lu – The Ming Shi-Lu is an open access resource to the annals of Ming China (1368 – 1644), in which place names and polities in Southeast Asia is featured greatly.
• Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliographic Database – funded by the Henry Luce foundation and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, this website offers a web-based bibliography and a skeletal database.
• Southeast Asian Images & Text – A collection of teaching and research resources put together by the people at the University of Wisconsin. Contains a section of images of Angkor Wat.
• Southeast Asian Newspapers – Online resource by the Center for Research Libraries, incorporating 19-20th century newspapers from several countries in Southeast Asia.
• The Southeast Asian Treasure Connection – A website about shipwrecks, underwater treasure hunting and archaeology.
• Spatial Discovery – A collection of over 3,000 maps from the last 200 years organised by the National Library of Singapore.
• A Structured Corpus of Old Burmese Stone Inscriptions – This dataset is a structured corpus of Old Burmese stone inscriptions, largely based on material from the dataset ရှေးဟောင်းမြန်မာကျောက်စာများ Ancient Burmese Inscriptions, with additional material by Thein Tun and Tilman Frasch.
• UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws
• Unesco Policy Monitoring Forum – The platform displays 2107 policies and measures from Periodic Reports of 102 countries submitted between 2012 and 2019.
• UNESCO World Heritage List – Alphabetical list of the World Heritage Sites on the UNESCO register.
• University of Hawaii collections on Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology – Open Access and digitised out of print books related to Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology.

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