The OMnibus of MANTRAMS. A mobile-first, immersive digital archive of multimedia material on mantras in Global Southern Asia

The ERC-funded research project „MANTRAMS – Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia“ is jointly hosted by the Universities of Tübingen, Vienna, EPHE Paris and Oxford (2024-2030) and aims at producing a global history and anthropology of mantras past and present, combining historical-philological methods, material culture studies and sonic ethnography with unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration. Researchers and local collaborators collate, collect and produce large bodies of multimedia material in many languages and scripts. The OMnibus of MANTRAMS is the core digital research output, an online multimedia exhibition and archive of mantras, curated from the MANTRAMS data corpus, mapped and openly accessible. This Poster was developed for the FIESOLE Retreat 2026, held at the University of Tübingen 13-15 April 2026, to present design challenges and choices faced during active OMnibus pilot development.