[Buddha-l] FW: Digital Library of India

[JKirkpatrick]

Well,

Asia Monitor's Matt Ciolek seems to think it's an 'Essential'
resource, he's a techy, so let's hope for the best in this case.

Joanna


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JKirkpatrick wrote:

"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
21participating 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.....

It will be interesting to compare their efforts with the
blundering attempts to digitize NHS Records in Britain. They've
been talking about it since the dark ages but never managed it
yet. 
The Labour Party paid some private company millions to do it last
year and had very little to show for it. I think they got as far
as a few local hospitals in the midlands - maybe about a million
records. Needless to say the programme made the computers crash
and they were talking about contacting Microsoft to see if they
could help.

Dave Living/Aryacitta

 		 	   		  
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