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SUMMARY:Arcadia Seminar: 18th May 2010.  “Collect\, Protect\, Connect: F
 rom Digital Himalaya to the World Oral Literature Project”\, Dr Mark Tur
 in - Dr Mark Turn\, Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature
  Project
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CONTACT:Michelle Heydon
DESCRIPTION:Ten years ago\, "Digital Himalaya":http://www.digitalhimalaya.
 org was founded as a strategy for salvaging\, archiving and disseminating 
 the products of historical ethnographic collections on the Himalayas -- bo
 th for posterity and for heritage communities. The project has now become 
 a collaborative digital publishing environment that brings a new collectio
 n online every month. The website has grown from being a static homepage w
 ith occasional updates to a responsive content delivery platform for over 
 40GB of archived data. Our online resources\, which were first used almost
  exclusively by members of Western universities\, now provide a range of s
 ervices to a global public\, with a particularly strong user base in South
  Asia. Digitisation has been 'off-shored' to Nepal\, dramatically reducing
  operational costs and increasing productivity. And\, most surprising of a
 ll\, our funding no longer comes from national funding bodies in Europe or
  America\, but through Web referrals\, users and individual donations from
  around the world.\n\nGrowing out of the success of Digital Himalaya\, the
  "World Oral Literature Project":http://www.oralliterature.org was establi
 shed in January 2009 as a new initiative to document and disseminate resea
 rch on endangered oral cultures and verbal arts before they disappear with
 out record. The project supports local communities and fieldworkers engage
 d in the collection and preservation of all forms of oral literature by fu
 nding original research\, organising training workshops and publishing res
 earch findings.\n\nIn today's lecture\, I address some of the lessons lear
 ned from the first project and how these have informed the conception of t
 he second. I also discuss the challenges of digital humanities research in
 itiatives that rely on collaborations with archivists\, librarian\, schola
 rs and perhaps most importantly\, source communities\, as partners in coll
 aborative fieldwork.\n\n*About the Speaker:*\n\nDr Mark Turin is a linguis
 tic anthropologist. He was trained in social anthropology at Cambridge and
  in descriptive linguistics at Leiden University. Mark has also held resea
 rch appointments at Cornell and Leipzig universities. From 2007 to 2008\, 
 he was Chief of Translation and Interpretation at the United Nations Missi
 on in Nepal (UNMIN)\, and returned to Cambridge in 2009 to direct Digital 
 Himalaya and the World Oral Literature Project.
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Old Combination Room (OCR)
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