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In his speech, James Nye outlined the status, Europeana, Digital Public Library of America
challenges and strategies involved in preserving (DPLA) and Endangered Archives of British Library
and providing access to cultural resources are three profoundly influential and important
worldwide in general while focusing on South projects when international programmes on
Asia and Odisha. He hoped that this fifth Odisha cultural resources are to be considered. Europeana
Knowledge Hub lecture would serve as a stimulant is an initiative that brings together resources
for more activities in the preservation and provision primarily drawn from Europe and makes them
of access to the wonderful cultural heritage of the available on the web. Digital Public Library of
great state of Odisha. He strongly believed that America, starting few years ago, is an initiative to
culture, cultural resources and heritage need to be bring together and federate resources generated
expansive so that it includes traditional resources primarily within North America and specifically
such as books, journals, sound recordings, maps, within the Unites States of America. In both
photographs, other images and data sets as well. projects, resources are available for and used by
Patrimony, in the context of the lecture, is to be the citizens and scholars without any charge.
understood as the property of the people, arising Arcadia fund provides re-grant money to support
from the people and shared by the people. It endangered archive stabilization and provision
should not be understood as a sex linked term that of access to those archival materials under the
perpetuates passing down of patriarchal tradition Endangered Archives project under British
that sometimes is used as a stick to divide. Library. Open access is fundamentally important
to all these enterprises. The cultural resources
The lecture was divided into three parts. The first are available for access by people and computers
part dwelled upon the international programmes
on cultural resources for open access and South
Asia’s position within the larger universe of
international programmes. The second part
enunciated the current situation of South Asia’s
programme for open access and the planned
course of journey together. The third part reflected
on potential programmes for preservation
and access of cultural resources related to
Odisha culture.