RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage

The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region. RWAAI serves to: Consolidate both legacy and newly created materials and expertise into a unique, persistent and accessible multidisciplinary resource documenting the languages and cultures of Austroasiatic-speaking communities. Provide a digital workspace for contributors where they can store, curate and reuse their research collections. Facilitate the presentation of intangible heritage collections for fellow researchers, community members, and the general public by assisting depositors in the digitisation, cataloguing and presentation of their research collections. Bring together an international network of Austroasiatic scholars to generate new initiatives in the evolving field of eScience. Provide capacity building in MSEA to promote the documentation of intangible heritage, and sustainable archiving technology and data management. Purpose: To maintain research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India.