The Digital Music Archiving Project is a combination of two
separate projects in which technical and human resources can be
best shared. The two parts retain their individual focus and
distinct character, but the staff and equipment are common to
both. 1. Digital Archive of North Indian Classical Music: Phase
II with emphasis on Special Collections The Digital Archive of
North Indian Classical Music was initiated in 2004 as part of
the School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur University,
Kolkata. The aim at inception was to create a collection of
digitised recordings of North Indian classical music, and by
2007 a collection of about 1,000 hours was digitised, catalogued
and made available. This new project will concentrate on
performances of artists usually under-represented in large
general collections. This appears to be because these artists
performed within a limited geographical range, and their music
did not circulate widely; certain styles like the ancient
dhrupad were less popular, and hence s