Mark Turin’s recent piece in the Nepali Times shares the long history of the Digital Himalaya project as the day to day management and future developments of the digital archive transitions to non-profit Archive Nepal.
“Over the last decade, I have been principally concerned with two matters when it came to Digital Himalaya. First, ensuring that our collections were stable, secure and accessible to communities in the Himalayan region. Second, to find a way to make myself dispensable and disposable.”
Digital Himalaya began 25 years ago as a project interested in exploring new methods for collecting, protecting and connecting historical multimedia collections relating to the Himalayan region in ways that would widen access to the materials through emerging digital platforms.
As on of the leads of this project since it’s inception in 2000 (along with Anthropology’s Dr. Sara Shneiderman), Dr. Turin says it was always the intention to ensure the collection was repatriated to the Himalayan region or managed by professionals from the region, and the partnership with Archive Nepal achieves this goal.
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