The Intemational Dunhuang Project (IDP) was founded in 1994 as an intemational collaboration with the aims of conserving and making more accessible the rich archaeological material-manuscripts, paintings, and artefacts-from Dunhuang and Silk Road archaeological sites in Xinjiang.After 20 years, it offers free and open access worldwide via multilingual websites to almost half a million images and rich contextual data.It is now preparing for the next twenty years with a new Open Source database and website, increasing amounts of data in the public domain and links enabling much greater use of the material for all.In this talk, Dr Susan Whitfield, Director of IDP, will discuss her work on the Silk Road collections at the British Library and internationally for IDP, and the vision of high quality, richly linked and accessible Silk Road data.