Digital collections regarding Vietnamese cultural heritage.
The National Library of Vietnam (NLV) in Hanoi holds a special collection of some 4,000 ancient texts in Hán and Nôm, the former ideographic writing systems of Vietnam. Since 2006, the NLV has co-operated with the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation (VNPF) to preserve this important form of cultural heritage via the creation of a digital library.
Collections of ancient text in Hán and Nôm from the National Libary Vietnam.
A Southeast Asia-focused digital library containing digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Digital collections curated by different research institutes from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences covering contents in fields of social sciences
Maurice Durand's Hán Nôm Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts is an extensive collection of historical texts collected by the renowned French scholar Maurice Durand (1914–1966), who specialized in Vietnamese literature and culture. The collection includes a wide array of handwritten and woodblock-printed manuscripts in Hán (classical Chinese used in Vietnam) and Nôm (the demotic script used to transcribe Vietnamese), covering diverse subjects such as history, folklore, religion, poetry, and traditional customs. These manuscripts, many of which date back to Vietnam’s pre-modern era, provide invaluable resources for scholars interested in the study of Vietnamese linguistics, literature, and cultural history.
The predecessor of the "Vietnam Hán-Nôm Literature Database" was the "Vietnam Hán-Nôm Bibliographic Database System," which was completed in December 2001 by the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. The content of this database system was based on the "Annotated Bibliography of Vietnam Hán-Nôm Literature" and its supplement, both compiled and published by the institute. In 1993, the Vietnam Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies and the École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) collaborated to compile and publish the Vietnamese-French edition of the "Catalogue of Vietnam Hán-Nôm Heritage" (Di sản Hán Nôm Việt Nam - Thư mục đề yếu), which collected bibliographic information and summaries of over 5,000 works written in Hán and Nôm from Vietnam and France.
This collection contains 10,865 issues with a total of 68,935 pages.
This collection contains 1,157 books with a total of 131,125 pages.
Formerly known as Vietnam Art Archive (ViAA ) – VCAD is a public archive initiated by Heritage Space in 2020 with the aim of creating an archive of contemporary art practices in Vietnam since 1990. VCAD is operated to provide information, references, and resources for professionals and audiences of arts in general who want to learn systematically about Vietnamese art.
VNS is a place for preserving and sharing the everyday sounds of life in Vietnam.
Vietnamica is a major research and digitization project which collects, preserves, and digitizes Hán-Nôm inscriptions and texts in Vietnam.
The website conveys the message that collecting, preserving, valorizing, and disseminating heritage for the benefit of everyone is central to the missions of the National Library of France (BnF) and the Bibliothèque Nationale Vietnam (BnV). Hoa Phượng Vỹ Library: France - Vietnam, a space to share a common history, is a testament to the commitment to serve memory, knowledge, and dialogue between cultures.
This collection contains digital facsimiles of Nôm manuscripts scanned in Vietnam as a collaboration between the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society at Temple University, and The General Library of Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam, with support from the Temple University Libraries. This digital repository is maintained by the Temple University Libraries.