In February and March 2014, approximately 357,000 new files representing over 14,000 items were accessioned into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). These materials include, but are not limited to, items from the Watershed Map of India, the People’s Computer Company, and Revs Digital Library.
The Watershed Map of India contains over 130 shapefiles representing basin and sub-basin boundaries, drainage networks, and rivers throughout India. Data are available for all 34 basins in India at a 1:250,000 scale allowing for analysis and implementation of water management schemes related to soil and water conservation, flood control, soil erosion control, land reclamation, hydro-power, irrigation, and other assessments of ground water resources.
Also added are more than four hundred additional “Gaihozu Maps” depicting Japan and territories outside of Japan (referred to as “Gaihozu”). Created between the Meiji era and the end of WWII, this collection is part of a world-wide effort to preserve this historically and scientifically important set of materials. Branner Library holds around 10,000 of these maps. This is a continuation of the digitization efforts for this collection.
For more detail about these and other recently added collections visit here.