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Digital Access to the British Library Collection of South Asia Photographs
John Falconer
British Library
United Kingdom
The British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections holds one
of the world's largest archives of historical photographs from South Asia.
The quarter of a million photographs covering the period 1850-1947 are
particularly strong in archaeological, architectural and topographical
subjects, but also cover ethnography, historical events and social history.
A detailed text database catalogue of this material which has been compiled
over the past eight years will shortly become available over the web,
but
development is now being directed to designing a database catalogue specifically
tailored to photographic and other visual images which will offer enhanced
tools both for viewing images and accessing ancillary textual data.
This database, now in an advanced stage of development and including
a GIS component, will be demonstrated and discussed in the context of
its links both with the Library's overall digitisation strategy and with
the International Dunhuang Project.
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