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Northern Illinois University Libraries, along with a consortium of U.S.
institutions represented by Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia
(CORMOSEA) and several international partners have won a grant from the US
Department of Education to create the Southeast Asia Digital Library. Funding
for the project has begun since October 2005 and is anticipated to continue for
four years. The total amount of the four year grant is $780,000 ($195,000 per
year)
The Digital Library will provide access to research materials, bibliographic
indexes, and support a wide range of research and teaching activities. It will
employ standards developed and approved by American and international library
organizations to provide free access to archives of textual, still image, sound,
and video resources, covering both historical and current information from the
region.
A number of constituent projects will create content and provide services for
the Digital Library. Projects include:
-Providing access to bibliographic indexing;
-Delivery of full-text articles in Thai;
-Digitization of Thai palm leaf manuscripts;
-Digitization of early printing in the languages of the region;
-Digitization of photographs and archives in Cambodia and the Philippines;
-Digitally archiving television programming from Indonesia;
-Digitally archiving videos of interviews of former political prisoners in East
Timor.
The collaborative digital library resulting from this grant will amass
substantial resources from Southeast Asia and provide free access for students,
teachers, scholars, and many others with interest in the region.
The SEADL website is currently under construction with some materials available
to be viewed.
http://sea.lib.niu.edu/
A federally funded National Resource Center since 1997, the Center for
Southeast Asian Studies provides leadership, focus, and coordination for
Southeast Asian studies at the university.
cseas@niu.edu