User:RachJR

I'm Rachel Roberts, and I work for the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library, as Digitisation Studio Manager. IDP is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and various other archaeological sites of the eastern Silk Road (Chinese Central Asia), and to make the images and information freely available online to all via multilingual websites.

IDP UK has produced over 140000 images to date, these include scrolls, woodslips, paper fragments and pothi. We also digitise historical photographs and produce modern photographs of the region. I took part in the 2011 Silk Road field trip which visited and documented the Silk Road sites of Niya and Karadong. We also produce videos to complement our other content.