Open Entry week 2024 (South/Southeast Asia) – International Research Weblog

As a part of Open Entry Week 2024 occasions (October 21-27; theme Neighborhood Over Commercialization), there was a presentation on: Digitizing Vietnam Venture: Growing Entry to Vietnam Research Supplies
Presenters: Hoang Minh Vu, Ph.D. (College member, Historical past and Vietnam Research, Fulbright College Vietnam); Phuong Tram Nguyen, Ph.D. (Digital Curator, Digitizing Vietnam Venture, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia College); Van Le Nguyen Tuong, MA (Digital Humanities Librarian, Digitizing Vietnam Venture, Vietnam Research Heart, Fulbright College Vietnam); Phuc Hoang Le, BA (Digital Architect, Digitizing Vietnam Venture, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia College)
Moderator: Gary Hausman
Abstract: Digitizing Vietnam is a framework for an inter institutional community of digital humanities analysis. The intention is to construct a digital hub for Vietnam research that brings collectively laptop science professionals and lecturers pursuing digital humanities analysis to collectively develop digital information repositories with digital instruments for evaluation constructed round these repositories. The mission is devoted to Open Entry, long run archival upkeep with correct attribution, and a number of institutional companions. Elements embrace a digital workbench and repository, Vietnam for educators associated pedagogical assets, and instruments equivalent to digital dictionaries, indices, exhibition halls, and absolutely searchable texts. College concerned within the mission are from Columbia College and Fulbright College Vietnam, together with John Phan, Vũ Minh Hoáng, Lien-Grasp Nguyen, and Nguyẽn Nam. The mission grant offers for 3 positions: a Columbia digital curator (Tram Phuong Nguyen), a CU-FU digital designer (Van Nguyen Tuong Le), and a Fulbright Digital Librarian (Phuc Hoang Le). Present companions embrace SEADL and Cornell College, the Institute for Han-Nom Research, Vietnam Nationwide College, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Computational Linguistics Heart at College of Science of VNU. Varied future companions are anticipated. Main collections embrace language (Hán-Nõm, language script philology), gender (Nữ-giới-chung, a ladies’s journal), warfare historical past (Vietnam Battle Assortment, Vietnamese Research Journal), music (Trịnh Công Sơn Oral historical past archives associated to a famend Vietnamese songwriter), and concrete life (Saigon Chronicles, a group of scholar movie documentaries). Podcasts improve neighborhood outreach, and an AI powered chatbot, supposed to permit the archives “to talk,” is underneath improvement. A prototype web site was demoed, together with digital Optical Character Recognition instruments for interacting with Chữ Nôm textual content [Vietnamese in Chinese characters].

In South Asia developments, CONSALD (Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation) held the Fall 2024 biannual assembly. A number of Open Entry websites and assets have been mentioned on the assembly, together with:

Herstories Venture (Sri Lanka archival histories of moms in South & North Sri Lanka)

Herstories Venture Sri Lanka oral historical past archives (Ladies’s histories of intercourse work: narratives of battle, braveness and survival)

Reminiscence Map (Sri Lanka neighborhood memorialization mission)

South Asian Literary Recordings Venture (updates on the Library of Congress)

Hindūstān = Hindostan = Hindostāna (Library of Congress, new digital editions in Hindi and Urdu of this serial, 1915-1918)

The annual South Asian Cooperative Assortment Improvement Workshop (2024) was held on the theme of the panorama of e-book publishing in South Asia. Shows lined Open Entry in addition to industrial publishers.

The Columbia College Libraries maintain intensive analysis collections from and about South & Southeast Asia. For additional questions, please contact:  Gary Hausman, South Asian Research Research Librarian: [email protected], International Research, Columbia College Libraries