Digital Himalaya is a 20-year-old project established by anthropologists and historians to explore new methods for collecting, protecting, and connecting historical multimedia collections relating to the Himalayan region in ways that would widen access to the materials through emerging digital platforms.

The project set out to digitize older ethnographic data sets and collections in order to protect them from obsolescence and decay, forward migrate them as new standards emerged, and share the content with originating communities in the Himalayan region and with scholars everywhere online, on air, and in print.