The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.
IDP partner institutions which both provide data for and act as hosts to the multilingual website and database are:
Major IDP partners providing data include:
IDP’s many other collaborating institutions provide data and work on joint projects.
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What's New
IDP News Issue No. 47/48, Autumn 2016
IDP News No. 47/48, Autumn 2016 is now available to view online or download as a PDF (980KB). IDP News is published twice a year reporting on IDP UK and worldwide news, recent publications and forthcoming exhibitions, conferences and events. The current issue is a bi-lingual issue dedicated to the ten year anniversary of collaboration between the British Library and the Dunhuang Academy with the following articles:
- The British Library and the Dunhuang Academy: Ten Years of Working Together to Bring Dunhuang to All | 大英图书馆与敦煌研究院： 十年合作向众人展现出敦
- 敦煌研究院的未来 | The Future of the Dunhuang Academy
- 敦煌研究院历史简介 | A Brief History of the Dunhuang Academy
- 数字敦煌成果简介 | Digitisation at the Dunhuang Academy
- Journey to the West: Dunhuang Material in London
- Forthcoming Initiatives on Dunhuang in Europe and the US
- Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road
- Tangut Conservation and Digitisation
- Obituary: Dr Abraham S-T Lue MBE CMG FKC
Records not Available
We are currently carrying out a redevelopment of the IDP database and website. There will be periods over the next year when records and images will be temporarily unavailable. Apologies in advance for any disruption.
What's On
Click here to see details of Conferences, Lectures, Exhibitions and other events.
Site Info
- Site last revised: September 2016.
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Site Credits
- Website design by Vic Swift of IDP.
- Database development and web integration by Michael Kaye of sendmetospace with additional support for Chinese version by Mark Mitchenall, using 4D database software and Active4D.
- General text written by Susan Whitfield with additional input from other members of IDP staff and translation by IDP staff in China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
- Some areas of the site such as Educational Projects, Resources, Research and Conservation Papers and My IDP projects are individually authored and accredited. IDP is not responsible for their content.
