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THL Projects Inventory

The current summary status of a project is indicated at the end of each entry:

• THL publication: available permanently at www.thlib.org.
• Old THDL publication: was on www.thdl.org, which we are taking off line, but not yet migrated to THL.
• Under Development: actively being developed, but not published in any form.
• In Planning: in planning stage.
• THL Affiliate: it indicates a website using THL tools and data in an extensive fashion.

Collaborative Repositories

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	PARTICIPANTS	STATUS REPORT	SUMMARY STATUS
Audio-Video Collections	A large archive of original and historical audio-video recordings concerning a broad array of topics on Tibet and the Himalayas, as well as powerful tools facilitating their analysis, interpretation and access.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication, but using old technology to be replaced in 2010.
Bibliographies	Bibliographies of primary and secondary literature from and on Tibet and the Himalayas, including searching and thematic classification.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication, but using old technology to be replaced in 2010.
Community Services	A portal for resources and information aimed at supporting local Tibetans and Himalayan communities, as well as the community of teachers, researchers, and students engaged with the region.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Himalayan Online Dictionaries	A project creating basic coverage of a variety of Himalayan languages in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. Mark Turin.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update	Offline awaiting THL republication.
Image Collections	A large archive of original and historical photographs concerning a broad array of topics on Tibet and the Himalayas, as well as powerful tools facilitating their analysis, interpretation and access.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication, but using old technology to be replaced in 2010.
Immersive Collections	An archive of immersive objects, such as interactive panoramas, or 3D objects.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Offline awaiting THL republication.
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies	JIATS is one of the leading journals in the world for Tibetan Studies.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Knowledge Maps	Knowledge Maps are collaborative maps of areas of knowledge - such as literary genres, ritual genres, and the like.	Participants unavailable	Status unavailable	THL Publication.
Maps Collections	An archive of interactive and static maps, as well as powerful tools facilitating their analysis and access.	Participants	Status Update	Offline awaiting THL republication.
Place Dictionary	A powerful multilingual dictionary of Tibetan geographical features ranging from mountains to monasteries to villages to administrative units, and with automated visualization of interactive GIS maps.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication.
Special Collections	An archive of interactive and static maps, as well as powerful tools facilitating their analysis and access.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Offline awaiting THL republication.
Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Geography	A vast collaborative initiative at documenting places across the region using GIS spatial databases to integrate historical and ethnographic scholarship, photos, and images	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication.
Tibetan Canons	A thematic research collection providing scans, input editions, translations, summaries, and scholarship, while enabling complex searches and analysis to be performed for Tibetan canonical literature.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Tibetan Dictionaries	A historical, rich dictionary of the Tibetan language that has detailed studies of each terms, including multimedia illustrations, and extensive documentation of actual usage in spoken recordings and literary passages.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Tibetan Digital Library	An affiliated digital library devoted to all aspects of Tibetan culture and the environment but designed for Tibetan users in Tibetan language produced in collaboration with THL.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Affiliate In Planning.
Tibetan Geotourism Portal	A portal using THL maps, images, audio-video, place studies, and more to promote and facilitate community-based responsible forms of tourism in Tibet for tourists, residents, and professionals.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publciation.
Tibetan Language Learning Portal	A large collection of resources for studying and teaching the spoken and literary form of the Tibetan language, including a special emphasis on extensive video recordings made in Tibet.	Participants	Status Update	Offline awaiting THL republication.
Tibetan Participatory Knowledge	An initiative to empower local community residents in Tibet to utilize digital technology to facilitate self-research and self-representation for socially progressive purposes.	Participants	Status Update	Under Development.
Tibetan Translation Tool	The Tibetan Translation Tool offers a way to input Tibetan passages and get them broken into component words and translated into English at the word (not sentence) level.	Participants unavailable	Status unavailable	THL Publication.
Toolbox	A collaborative repository of information and resources for doing digital work in the humanities with a focus on THL repositories and guidelines.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication

Encyclopedias

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	PARTICIPANTS	STATUS REPORT	SUMMARY STATUS
Tibetan History Encyclopedia	An Encyclopedia devoted to Tibetan historical resources and scholarship.	Participants	Status Update	Old THDL Publication
Tibetan Language & Linguistics Encyclopedia	An Encyclopedia devoted to Tibetan linguistic resources and scholarship.	Participants	Status Update	Old THDL Publication
Tibetan Literary Encyclopedia	An Encyclopedia devoted to Tibetan literary resources and scholarship, including extensive catalogs and editions of Tibetan texts.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication
Tibetan Medicine Encyclopedia	An Encyclopedia devoted to Tibetan medical resources and scholarship.	Participants	Status Update	Old THDL Publication
Tibetan Music Encyclopedia	An Encyclopedia devoted to Tibetan music resources and scholarship, including extensive audio and video recordings.	Participants	Status Update	Old THDL Publication

Place Projects

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	PARTICIPANTS	STATUS REPORT	SUMMARY STATUS
Bhutan National Digital Library	An affiliated digital library devoted to all aspects of Bhutanese culture and the environment and produced in collaboration with THL.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Affiliate Under Development.
Chungba Valley Cultural Geography	A project that documents the fabric of life in a typical rural community in a single valley using oral histories, mapping, community participatory research, and scholarly analysis.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Under Development.
Drepung Monastery	A project that analyzes the rich intellectual, social, and contemplative history and present of one of Tibet’s greatest monasteries via interactive maps, videotaped interviews and events, scholarly essays, images, and immersive objects.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Lhasa City Project	A living study of Tibet’s most important city with interactive maps, oral histories, resident interviews, images, and scholarship.	Participants	Status Update	Old THDL Publication.
Meru Monastery	A project using three dimensional reconstruction as a basis to do a comprehensive study of monastery located in the Old City area of Lhasa.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Ngari Portal	A in-depth site devoted to Ngari, or Western Tibet, documenting its culture, history, and environment with maps, videos, images, and scholarly essays.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Under Development.
Sera Monastery	A project that analyzes the rich intellectual, social, and contemplative history and present of one of Tibet’s greatest monasteries via interactive maps, videotaped interviews and events, scholarly essays, images, and immersive objects.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.

Thematic Projects

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	PARTICIPANTS	STATUS REPORT	SUMMARY STATUS
Antiquities of Zhangzhung	An archaeological survey of more than 400 ancient sites of western Tibet undertaken by John Vincent Bellezza.	John Vincent Bellezza	Status Update	THL Publication.
Contemporary Tibetan Art	A project of Tibet University artists to document the exciting contemporary Tibetan art movement with images and interviews.	Participants	Status Update	Under Development.
Historical Sites of Central Tibet	A project to document historical sites in Central Tibet with onsite lectures by local Tibetans as well as the fifth Dalai Lama’s history.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Lhasa’s Cultivated Landscapes	Documentation and analysis of the parks and new green houses in the changing urban Tibetan landscape.	Emily Yeh.	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Oral Traditions of Tibet	A project that is documenting oral traditions of all types via audio-video recording and transcription, including music, oral traditions, social traditions, and more.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Under Development.
The Collected Tantras of the Ancients	A thematic collection dedicated to the canonical tantric literature of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication.
Tibetan Canons: Kangyur and Tengyur	A collection of several editions of the Kangyur and Tengyur, canonical collections of Tibetan Buddhism.	Participants	Status Update	THL Publication.
Shechen Tibetan Buddhist Text Input Project	A project to input Tibetan Buddhist literature, particularly from the Nyingma school, at Shechen Monastery in Nepal.	Matthieu Ricard.	Status Update unavailable.	Under Development.
English Language Instruction for Tibetans	An initiative to make available English learning resources for Tibetans.	Kevin Stuart.	Status Update unavailable.	Under Development.
Tibetan Medicine Learning Resources	a project to document traditional Tibetan medicine and make available resources for learning.	Frances Garrett.	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Himalayan Journal Digitization Project	A project to digitize academic journals from the Himalayan region and make them freely available online.	Mark Turin	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Nepali Language Resources Project	A project to document resources available for studying the Nepal language, and, when possible, making them directly available over the Web.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Historical Himalayan Videos Project	A project to digitize old video recordings from Tibet and the Himalayans.	Mark Turin.	Status Update unavailable.	Old THDL Publication.
Tibetan Translation Tool	A service into which one can cut and paste Tibetan language passages, or type in Tibetan words, and have it broken down into the component words, which are then defined in English from multiple dictionaries.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication.

Technical Projects

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	PARTICIPANTS	STATUS REPORT	SUMMARY STATUS
Tibetan Unicode	A project on creating fonts and input methods for Tibetans to use computers for their own script, and providing documentation, training resources, and workshops to help promote and facilitate their understanding and use.	Participants unavailable.	Status Update unavailable.	THL Publication

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