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Includes bibliography (pages 632-634) and index.

"Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented -- including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives -- and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history."--Publisher's website.

Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; List of recordings; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme; The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years; What the Endangered Archives Programme does; Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history; 1. The "written landscape" of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains; 2. Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom Manuscripts Project; 3. Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts

4. Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia5. Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya; 6. In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné ; 7. The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers; 8. Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes; 9. Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives; 10. Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study

11. Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality12. Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre; 13. A charlatan's album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880); 14. Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills district, Northeast India (1870-1920); 15. The photographs of Baluev: capturing the "socialist transformation" of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 ; 16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio

17. Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée18. Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music; 19. The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia; Index

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