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James Nye

Director of the Digital South Asia Library University of Chicago

Biography

James Nye, Director of the Digital South Asia Library and an associate of the Humanities Division, is the retired Bibliographer for Southern Asia. Trained as a classical Indologist with an emphasis on medieval Sanskrit literature, his most recent externally funded projects focus on dictionaries for South Asian languages, sonic and visual South Asia, and the Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art. He served for fifteen years as Director of the University’s South Asia Language and Area Centre and for three years as Director of the South Asia Language Resource Centre, both of which were U. S. National Resource Centers.

For more details on his work at the Digital South Asia Library, please visit his profile page.

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Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

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2017 – 2021

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Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive

Deploying data-mining and pattern-analysis techniques common to the physical and biological sciences, an interdisciplinary group of investigators from across the University worked to produce a sonic history of modern India.

An exploration of how the methods of “big science” might elucidate and facilitate the humanistic understanding of music, speech, and other audio expressions, the one-year Audio Cultures of India project deployed data mining and computational pattern analysis techniques common to the physical and ...

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2013 – 2014

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