The Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) recently launchen DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, which documents endangered monuments and sites of Nepal's cultural heritage. DANAMS datasets include structured information about the monuments' history and iconography, monument descriptions, architectural drawings and site plans as well as a broad photographic documentation. DANAM is based upon Arches, an open source platform based on graph technology and designed for managing heritage repositories. NHDP is based at the Heidelberg Centre of Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and in Kathmandu.
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