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The THL Places Portal supports scholarly projects and participatory projects by local communities on the culture, ecology, and geography of the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayas. All resources will be published in a scholarly format in the Tibetan and Himalayan Historical & Cultural Geography Portal, and in more accessible formats in the Tibetan Geotourism Portal. The former serves scholars, teachers, students, and others with a scholarly bent, while the latter serves visitors to the region while promoting tourism that benefits local communities and features immersive engagement. Resources include maps, images, audio-video, essays, and place studies.
The technical core is GIS (Geographical Information Systems), which documents places by latitude and longitude, and thus allows for analysis of places in relationship to other associated data, the visualization of relationships with maps, and the indexing of large pools of resources by place (images, audio-video, bibliographies, texts). We are using GIS to document the contemporary situation of the region and its history.