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Policy report
Academic Libraries of the Future: Scenarios for 2050 (Final Report)
The academic libraries of the future project (LotF) has developed three scenarios which describe possible futures for teaching, academic and research libraries in the UK at some point beyond 2020, particularly in the context of the changing academic and technological landscape. The scenarios will help Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and...Curtis, Geoff ; Davies, Claire ; Hammond, Max ; Hawtin, Rob ; Ringland, Gill …
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Book
Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
This guidebook focuses on the rock-cut Buddhist monasteries near Nashik and Junnar, and at Karla, Bhaja, Bedsa, Kondane and Kanheri, all in western Maharashtra. These magnificent shrines and dwellings, known as chaityas and viharas, were cut into the basalt cliffs of the Western Ghats more than 2,000 years ago. They...Michell, George ; Rees, Gethin
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Journal article
Colonial discourse, Indian Ocean Trade and the Urbanisation of the Western Deccan
A plethora of data attest to the importance of connections across the Indian Ocean during the first millennium BC. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that an Indian Ocean trade network had been established that facilitated the exchange of diverse goods between East Africa, Egypt, Arabia, South East Asia and South...Rees, Gethin
trade, urbanisation, early historic, Indian Ocean, and Western Deccan
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Dataset
Early Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries Of The Western Ghats: Caves And Sculptures
CSV files containing basic information on early Buddhist rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats and Konkan coast regions of India. Only the caves cut between second century BCE and the early fifth century CE are included: from the earliest period of cutting up until just prior to the introduction of...Rees, Gethin
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Book chapter
Rivers, Valleys, Plains and the Distribution of the Rock-cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
This article provides an introduction to Buddhist monasteries situated in the Western Ghats Mountains and on the Konkan Coast. These monasteries took the form of caves that were cut between 200 BC and AD 500 approximately. The caves provided shelter for monastic communities, housing activities such as meditation, eating and...Rees, Gethin
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Dataset
Early Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries Of The Western Ghats: Locations
CSV files containing locations of early Buddhist rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats and Konkan coast regions of India. Only the caves cut between second century BCE and the early fifth century CE are included: from the earliest period of cutting up until just prior to the introduction of the...Rees, Gethin
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Dataset
Mapping Jewish Communities Of The Byzantine Empire
The aim of the project was to map the Jewish presence in the Byzantine empire using GIS (Geographical Information Systems). All references (published and unpublished) to Jewish communities in the Byzantine Empire were gathered and collated. The data were incorporated in a GIS which will be made freely available to...Rees, Gethin ; Lange, Nicholas De ; Panayotov, Alexander ; Palm, Fredrik
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Journal article
Celibate monks and foetus-stealing gods: Buddhism and pregnancy at the Jetavana Monastery, Shravasti, India
Care for pregnant women constituted an important aspect of interaction between monastic communities and the laity at the Jetavana Buddhist monastery. Figurines found at the monastery date to the first millennium CE and portray a deity with both maleficent and beneficent attitudes toward the unborn. The deities that such figurines...Rees, Gethin ; Yoneda, Fumitaka
figurines, Jetavana monastery, Buddhism, South Asia, and pregnancy
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Abstract
Uncertain Date, Uncertain Place: Interpreting the History of Jewish Communities in the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The presentation will address the problem of how to display uncertain historical data in a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS). In recent years the use of internet GIS has allowed the general public to access large volumes of spatial data. Although GIS has been applied in specific areas of academic...Rees, Gethin
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Journal article
A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting. A framework for dating the caves is outlined and a hiatus in their construction during the first...Rees, Gethin
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Database
Siddham: the South Asia Inscriptions Database
The Siddham database is a resource for the study of inscriptions from South and Central Asia. The project focuses on the period of the Guptas (circa 320 to 550), a pivotal moment in the history of Asia, marked by an astonishing florescence in every field of endeavour. The Gupta kingdom...Rees, Gethin ; van Schaik, Sam ; Balogh, Danièl
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Journal article
A Systematic Approach to Selecting Inexpensive Conservation Storage Solutions
The appropriate storage of heritage artefacts is vital to their long-term survival, but selecting suitable storage solutions is not always easy due to the number of potentially conflicting factors that must be considered: the method of housing should be compatible with both the objects themselves and with the local environment;...Garside, Paul ; Hanson, Lesley
conservation, conservation science, storage, and collection care
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 385,237 images identified as 'Plates' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1528 – c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Plates have currently been...British Library ; British Library Labs