[Buddha-l] Research Resource: Digital Library of India (DLI) [with over230, 000 onlinebooks]

[JKirkpatrick]

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Sep 2010, Vol. 17, No. 11 (316)
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28 Sep 2010

Digital Library of India (DLI) [with over 230,000 online books]

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Self-description:
"Digital Library of India [est. circa 2003 - ed.] - Hosted by:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in co-operation with CMU,
IIIT, NSF, ERNET and MCIT for the Govt. of India and 21
participating centers. 
[...] The primary long-term objective is to capture all books in
digital format. It is believed that such a task is impossible and
could take hundreds of years, and never be completed. Thus, as a
first step we are planning to demonstrate the feasibility by
undertaking to digitize 1 million books (less than 1% of all
books in all languages ever published) by 2005. [...] One of the
goals of the Digital Library of India is to provide support for
full text indexing and searching based on OCR (optical character
recognition) technologies where available. [...] This 24x7
resource would also provide an excellent test bed for language
processing research in areas such as machine translation, optical
character recognition, summarization, speech and hand writing
recognition, intelligent indexing, and information retrieval in
Indian languages. It is our expectation that the Digital Library
of India will be mirrored at several locations worldwide so as to
protect the integrity and availability of the data. The DLI will
also partner with other country specific Digital Libraries
initiatives as part of the Universal Library Project
(www.ulib.org) [...]."

Site contents:
* Vision;
* Mission;
* Goals;
* Benefits,
* Content Selection (1. Coordination of Selection, 2.
Non-copyrighted materials, 3. Best books approach);
* Current Status;
* People (Academia, Government, CMU [Carnegie Mellon University,
USA], US Advisors, China, The Team, Past Project Assistants);
* Partners;
* Funding;
* Copyright Policy;
* FAQ;
* RFP;
* Members;
* Search (# Title, # Author, # Year, # Subject [35 subjects
ranging from Art and Architecture through History and Marketing
to Sociology, Statistics and Zoology], # Language [Any Language,
Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, French, German,
Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Kannada, Malayalam,
Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Portuguese,
Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,
Tibetan, Urdu, Multi, Others, Unknown], # Scanning Centre [select
from the list of the 25 Indian centers involved in the project] *
Search (# Title, # Author, # Year, # Subject [35 subjects ranging
from Art and Architecture through History and Marketing to
Sociology, Statistics and Zoology], # Language [Any Language,
Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, French, German,
Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Kannada, Malayalam,
Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Portuguese,
Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,
Tibetan, Urdu, Multi, Others, Unknown], # Scanning Centre [select
from the list of the 25 Indian centers involved in the project]);
* Free online access to both the metadata for and contents of all
scanned books);
* Books from Partner Sites;
* Presentations and Report;
* Statistics Report;
* Status Report [No of Books scanned by 28 Sep 2010 = 231,679; No
of Pages scanned by 28 Sep 2010 = 81,388,365 - ed.];
* Feedback;
* Recent collection;
* Recent updates;
* Partner site with PDF collection.

URL http://www.dli.ernet.in/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dli.ernet.in/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek
(tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online guide]:
Corporate info. / Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum -
NGO - other]:
Government / Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful -
interesting -
marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 -
under 1,000
  - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: No statistics is available
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Dr T. Matthew Ciolek   matthew.ciolek--at--anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia
and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893 also, Asia
Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com