Fragile Palm Leaves: Scanning Horizons
Project Representative(s): Peter Skilling, Nonthaburi, Thailand
The traditional method of copying and transmitting Buddhist texts in Thailand was writing them on palm leaves, which, amazingly durable, were then bound into volumes ranging in thickness from anywhere between 100 and 600 leaves. Prof. Skilling's project is attempting to preserve the content of these palm-leaf scriptures by scanning. The files created from this scanning work are now being developed in the form of a database.