Presentation of the research project

The Himalayan Rock Art Database (HiRADa) is one of the Digital Humanities outcomes of the imalayan Rock Art project that complies with FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets) and relies on the services of the French Platform for Digital Humanities (Huma-Num^IR*).

An Illustrated Thesaurus for Himalayan Rock Art was digitally published in 2023 on the Opentheso platform.

The HiRADa dataset was published in 2023 and 2024 on the research repository Nakala where you can access various collections enabling direct access to images and documents by type (illustrations of the thesaurus, photographs, field maps, sketches, annotated aerial images, tracings, reading of rock inscriptions in Tibetan).

The team

You can access the academic profile of each team members on ORCID and their respective list of publications on HAL.

Prinicpal Investigators

Laurianne BRUNEAU: ORCID | HAL
Martin VERNIER: ORCID | HAL

Post-doctoral researchers

Ani DANIELYAN: ORCID | HAL
Nils MARTIN: ORCID | HAL

Research assistant

Vydhegi Brice and Alexandra VANLEENE

Conception of the database

Abram Pointet and Solange Gaillard, MICROGIS.
We are also indebted to Lelia Elbourani Alcaraz (developer of the tool Mynkl), Philippe Pons (CNRS engineer at the CRCAO until 2023) and Miled Rousset (engineer at the MOM, Lyon and developer of Opentheso) for their temporary technical support during the project.

Acknowledgements

The PIs would like to thank everyone who trusted them with their rock art data, which was often acquired at great expense in the Himalayas! Thanks go to members of the Rock Art and Historical Society of Spiti (Himachal Pradesh, India); Jean-Louis Taillefer and Pascale Dollfus (Ladakh); Zafar Iqbal and David-Sarmiento Castillo (Yasin, Pakistan) and Jean-Bourgeois (Laghman, Afghanistan).

Contact us

We welcome any comment or query, please write to both PIs:
laurianne.bruneau[at]ephe.psl.eu
zskvernier[at]gmail.com
If you would like to contribute to the database in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us!