About

PlateauCulture.org is a platform for sharing digital resources about the Tibetan Plateau. The site maps geocoded images, articles, place summaries and bibliographic sources and attempts to illustrate various strands of culture, life and history on and around the Tibetan Plateau.  Work on the website began in May, 2009 and continued through 2010. We welcome contributions and collaborators from others with an interest in the region.

The site is developed by Travis McCauley using the Drupal content management system, with the support of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to Frances Garrett at the University of Toronto. Community-contributed modules, Geo and Openlayers, are used to store, query and display geo-spatial data. Administrative boundary shape files (for provinces, prefectures and counties) are from the Tibetan Himalayan Library Place Dictionary.