Founded in 1994, the International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) is a pioneering international collaboration that brings together online collections from the Eastern Silk Roads and promotes the understanding of the history and culture of the region.
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Digital Humanities and the International Dunhuang Programme at Ryukoku University
This blog post is by Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections, British Library. She’s on Mastodon as @[email protected]. I had the honour of being …
Handwritten Text Recognition of the Dunhuang manuscripts: the challenges of machine learning on ancient Chinese texts
This blog post is by Peter Smith, DPhil Student at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. Introduction The study of writing …
IDP New Website Launch
We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly redeveloped International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) website, hosted by the British Library. The IDP was established …
Shaping the Stein collection’s Dunhuang corpus (2): the items from Cave 17’s ‘miscellaneous’ bundles
In a previous blog post, we looked at the instrumental role played by Wang Yuanlu during the selection of the items from the Cave 17. …
Shaping the Stein collection’s Dunhuang corpus (1) Wang Yuanlu: the first ‘curator’
The British Library, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museum of India hold a significant amount of manuscripts and other pieces acquired by …
The Lotus Sutra Project
Conserving and Digitising 800 Manuscripts in the British Library
An introduction to sketches in the Stein Collection
Digital and physical preservation underpin much of the work carried out by the IDP
The Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project: the collaborative work between the Heritage Made Digital team and the International Dunhuang Project team
Digitisation has become one of the key tasks for the curatorial roles within the British Library. This is supported by two main pillars: the accessibility …
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