Digital Silk Road Project is a research project on creating digital archives of cultural heritage through collaboration between informatics and humanities. [ Read More >> ]
We released Google Earth Version for maps by Hedin, "Central Asia Atlas" and "Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien."
Stein Maps (Serindia, Innermost Asia) are now accessible on Bing Maps.
Stein Maps (Serindia, Innermost Asia) are now accessible on Google Maps.
Maps for Google Earth are increased, and a simple 3D model of Bezeklik Caves is built for Google Earth.
Old maps of Innermost Asia can now be seen on Google Earth.
Blue Marble Images of Silk Road is now open. And historical map collection can now be viewed smoothly on Google Earth.
The site is open to the public.
We added accurate latitude and longitude on the map of Stein for most of the places, and released Map Search.
The site is open to the public.
DSR International Symposium 2013 was closed. Thank you for your participation.
Call for participation DSR International Symposium 2013 on February 28 and March 1.
We added 53 new books to become the collection of 203 books, 59,358 pages.
The database is open to the public. The number of books is 27 with 5,623 pages.
Maps of Kara-Khoja were added to Mappinning.
Mappinning was released.
New photographs were added for Kara-khoja.
Search by keyword is available.
New photographs were added for Changji and Jimsar.
New photographs were added for Turfan and Hami.
New photographs were added for Khotan, and they were linked with Stein Placename Database.
The site was releasaed.
The current location of temples is more comprehensive in Search by Placenames. Out of 3592 placenames in the database, 3032 have location information.
The website is released.
Three new videos were added to 3D CG Reconstruction: Introductory Walk-through Video, now providing five videos in total for viewing.
We started the collection and dissemination of data about the Citadel of Bam, Iran which was almost completely destroyed by the Iranian Earthquake on December 2003.
Introduction was translated into Japanese. From now on, Chinese, the original language, will be translated into Japanese.
The site is open to the public.
The site was released.
Senga appeared in Toyo Bunko Museum.
Senga Browser was released.
The site is now open to the public (only in Japanese).
Guideline for submission is modified for people who are interested in Silk Road.
English version was added.
The site is renewed, and we added "Silk Road Tour" and "Chronological Map."
The site is renewed, and we added short cinemas and panorama images of the Heritage of Bamiyan.
The site is open to the public.
The website is renewed (Design (Calligraphy and Stamp)).
The website is renewed.
The website is opened to the general public.
Series of reports on 6th Workshop Collection has started.
Senga Silk Road will appear at 6th Workshop Collection.
A Web site that summarizes outreach activities of the project is released (in Japanese). At this moment, the outreach activity focuses on Senga Silk Road.
A databse on representative Buddhist caves in China, namely Dunhuang Mogao Caves, Bezeklik Caves, Kizil Caves, is released.
New photographs are added.
Website is renewed.
The site is open to the public. More photographs will be added.
This page summarizes various activities on 3D models in the project.
On the 5th anniversary of Bam earthquake, the Website for disseminating the outcome of research is released, in addition to the existing website, Citadel of Bam, Iran.
English translation of "Silk Road in Rare Books" for all 10 stories are completed.
"Silk Road in Rare Books" is now available in English. We are planning to translate two stories every month.
"Discovery of Civilizations of Central Asia" has started with the first story by Lin Meicun (in Chinese and Japanese).
"Silk Road in Rare Books" has started with the first story (in Japanese).
The site is preliminary open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese.
The site is open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese, but may deal with multilingual terms in the future.