Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:47:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Soundara Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Google offers help to Mysore University to digitize 8,00,
000 books
Google offers help to Mysore University to digitize
8,00,000 books
Around 8,00,000 books as well as manuscripts from the
Mysore University in Karnataka, India will soon be
digitized by Google.*
The Mysore University library has around 100,000
manuscripts that are written both on paper as well as
palm leaves. These would include India's first
political treatise, the 'Arthashastra' written in the
4th century BC by Kautilya.
*J.Shashidhara Prasad, Vice Chancellor of Mysore
University *commented on the initiative and said that
this is an effort to restore and preserve this rich
cultural heritage for effective dissemination of
knowledge.
"Many manuscripts on ayurveda, mathematics, medicine,
science, astrology and economy ncluding 'Arthasastra'
and several paper manuscripts of the Wodeyar dynasty
of Mysore will be digitized first," *Prasad, said*.
Prasad also said that the digitized versions of
manuscripts would be patented depending on
exclusivity, and would be printed, once the
digitization work was over.
Google will be digitising these manuscripts as well as
700,000 other books free-of-cost. The idea behind
digitising for free is to get free links to these
materials once the necessary patenting is complete.
Google will also provide expertise, software, and
manpower for the digitization work. Whereas, Mysore
University is training some of its select Physics
students to help in the digitization process.
Though no time spell has been given by the university
on the completion of the project, once complete, they
said they would allow students, scholars, and
historians from all over the country to access this
vast knowledge base.
Asked why Google is interested to do the job for free,
the vice chancellor said the company would get free
link for these materials once the necessary patent
right is done. Prasad, who is also a physicist, said
that selected physics students of his university are
also getting trained to help in the digitalization
process.
Elaborating on its utility, Prasad said they would
allow students, scholars and historians from all over
the country to access the knowledge base.
Source:
<http://www.techshout.com/internet/2007/21/
google-to-digitize-800000-books-at-
mysore-university-in-india/>
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Posted on May 22, 2007, in
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by Ridhi D'Cruz, Independent Journalist, web
designer, photographer, and ICT4D enthusiast
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N.S. Soundara Rajan, Mysore, India
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