INTERNATIONAL DUNHUANG PROJECT The Silk Road Online

IDP INTERNATIONAL DUNHUANG PROJECT The Silk Road Online TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF THE EASTERN SILK ROAD THROUGH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Houses Built on Sand Ensuring Secure Foundations for the Preservation of and Access to Digital Heritage Susan Whitfield, The British Library susan.whitfield@bl.uk idp@bl.uk Thursday, 17 January 13

Trasmission of Buddhism.

Ajanta caves, India, chaitya- griha - or stupa type.

Later replacement of stupa with a Buddhist figure in Indian caves.

Kizil Caves, Xinjiang

Bezeklik caves, near Turfan, Xinjiang

285 - lanterndecke ceiling - roof beams. SJll see in Tajikistan. Tent hanging. Square vihara-type built around 538-9, making it Mogao s earliest dated cave. The square recess at the apex of the ceiling shows the Lanterndecke design but also has decoration of triangles and tassels, emulating a tented hanging. The motif continues at the top of the walls with a design of looped-up curtains. This became a common motif on ceilings to the Guiyijun period.

Dunhuang Library Cave collections worldwide Freer Gallery of Art UCLA Morgan Library Princeton Harvard Berkeley The British Library The British Museum Chester Beatty Library Victoria & Albert Museum IOM, St Petersburg Hermitage, St Petersburg BnF, Paris Musée Guimet, Paris The National Library of China, Beijing The Dunhuang Academy, Dunhuang Other Chinese universities Academia Sinica, Taipei Ryukoku University, Kyoto University of Korea, Seoul National Museum of India, New Delhi Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: 1993 IDP started with the vision of reuniting virtually all the manuscripts from the Dunhuang Library cave for a scholarly audience. Initiated by curators and conservators at the major collections of Library Cave material worldwide. Directorate at the British Library. Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: from cave to computer... ensuring access and preservation Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: User survey 2012 3 Thursday, 17 January 13 95 of the users has previously used the IDP website, dividing more or less equally between research (59) and general interest (57), with teaching (24) and picture research (26) also both featuring. English website (97) not surprising

Website in 6 languages hosted in 7 locations

IDP: centres Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Autonomy of Partners Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP UK IDP CHINA (NLC) IDP FRANCE IDP CHINA (DHA) IDP RUSSIA IDP JAPAN IDP GERMANY IDP KOREA Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP UK IDP CHINA (NLC) IDP FRANCE IDP CHINA (DHA) IDP RUSSIA IDP JAPAN IDP GERMANY IDP KOREA IDP TEST Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: expansion Its scope has since expanded, both in terms of the content to be digitised and the audience. Textiles, archaeological artefacts, paintings and murals from all sites on the Eastern Silk Road, are being digitised by IDP, along with the archaeologists notes, plans, maps, diaries and other expedition archives. Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: different materials Thursday, 17 January 13

thumbnails of available images of site plans and photographs click to show larger image in main window searches the database for finds from the whole site or from specific locations General description of the site medium images of site plans and photographs can also view large image Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: guiding principles Free access to all Comprehensive and rich data Collaborative Skills sharing Autonomy of partners Sustainability Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Digital Dunhuang? Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Digital Dunhuang? Metadata, images of all caves? Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Digital Dunhuang? Metadata, images of all caves? <50/>500 Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Digital Dunhuang? Metadata, images of all caves? <50/>500 Metadata, images of all manuscripts? 25,000/40,000 400,000/>1 million images Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Digital Dunhuang? Metadata, images of all caves? <50/>500 Metadata, images of all manuscripts? 25,000/40,000 400,000/>1 million images Metadata, images of all portable paintings? 80% Freely accessible to all? IDP - yes Freely reusable by all? British Library material now under Public Domain and Creative Commons licenses. API on IDP BL data. Thursday, 17 January 13

Searching for funds Thursday, 17 January 13 Rawak stupa, near Khotan, Xinjiang.

IDP: Dunhuang s future? Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Dunhuang s future? Free, personal, immediate and reusable access to everything Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Dunhuang s future? Free, personal, immediate and reusable access to everything everything = data Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP: Dunhuang s future? Free, personal, immediate and reusable access to everything everything = data heritage data = time and money Thursday, 17 January 13

IDP INTERNATIONAL DUNHUANG PROJECT The Silk Road Online idp@bl.uk susan.whitfield@bl.uk Thursday, 17 January 13