Bibliotheca Alexandria is already doing something about digitization. I heard a talk at Tunis as well as I spoke someone at their stall.
Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Digitizing Indian language books > > Dear Arun > > As you speak about African languages: Adama Samassékou is surely a good > source, but he is difficult to reach (I don't have his e-mail, but maybe > someone in UNECA has). There was also an IFLA-UNECA post-WSIS Workshop on > Building of African Capacity to implement the Outcomes of the World Summit > on the Information Society in the sphere of Libraries and Access to > Information and Knowledge. This took place in Addis end of March 2006. > More info is at > http://www.uneca.org/disd/events/2006/wsis-library/main.html and a short > report at > http://www.ifla.org/VII/s17/pubs/s17-WISIS-Report2006.pdf . > > But we should not forget the Library of Alexandria, which could become a > repository for Arabic books. I don't know if anyone has information on > possible plans of the Bibilotheca Alexandrina regarding digitizing Arabic > books? > > Best > > Charles Geiger > Executive Director WSIS > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Subbiah > Arunachalam > Sent: samedi, 12. août 2006 06:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Digital Divide Network > discussion group; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jayaweera, Wijayananda; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; M.Anandakrishnan; Anand > Parthasarathy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; sundar sarukkai; pramod mangla; > Alexander Macgillivray; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vijay > Baskar; Heather Ford; 'Puvan J Selvanathan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; J > Shankar; Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Helen King; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Shaddy; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; T.V.Gopal; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Prof N. Balakrishnan; Rufina Fernandes (NASSCOM > Foundation); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > Kalpana Dasgupta; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Heather Morrison; subir sen; Eskedar Nega > Subject: [DDN] Digitizing Indian language books > > > Dear Paola and friends: > > Thanks very much for your whole-hearted support to the idea of digitising > books in different languages. > > I wrote about it to both Microsoft and Google. Ms Ankhi Das of Microsoft, > New Delhi, replied stating that she had forwarded my suggestion to the > right > person (a Tamil speaker) in their Redmont office. I am yet to hear from > Google. I have written to them more than once and I spoke to a senior > Google > official at the Second iCommons meet at Rio de Janeiro a few weeks ago. > > You say, "It would be good to have a parallel developments in character > recognition technology, as I am not sure all languages have the equivalent > browser compatibe format." The right persons to address these issues are > two > Indian friends of mine - both amazingly energetic and extraordinarily > competent - S Ramani of HP labs in B'lore and Ramki (Ramakrishnan) of > CDAC. > I am sure they are members of one of these lists and will respond as soon > as > they see this message. I am also copying this to a professor at IIT Bombay > and a professor at IIT Kanpur and officebearers of the Computer Society of > India. Surely, corporations such as Google and Microsoft will also have > people who can take care of these technical aspects. > > This morning I met a book publisher (Satya of New Horizon Media Pvrivate > limited) over breakfast and he told me that among all Indian languages, > Tamil is ahead in blogging and in digitizing books. Many Tamil classics > (he > cited the example of Silappathikaram) are already available in digital > form. > They may be in individual websites, and we may have to make them > interoperable for universal open access. I read a few weeks ago about a > Microsoft plan to digitize Hindi books. > > We may also persuade people like Mr Brewster Kahle of Internet Archive and > Open Content Alliance to take interest in digitizing Indian language > books. > > There are a number of individuals and institutions in Africa who might be > keen on placing all books in African languages on open access > repositories. > I can name Prof. Adama Samosekou as a great champion of language > computing. > > Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: [participants] [Fwd: [c3net] Digitizing Indian language > books] > > >> okay Fred >> good idea >> >> - let's start to put the idea onto the wiki and make a list of >> resources/possibilities >> >> and maybe someone (Arun?) would want to develop the idea (I'd love to >> - but I am also swamped for the mo) >> as soon as i have a spare yuga .... >> >> pdm >> >> >> On 8/11/06, Frederick FN Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Project Gutenberg could be a good place to pool initiatives. I >>> understand they were interested in working on ancient Indian texts >>> too... given the interest among Indologists worldwide. FN >>> >>> On 11/08/06, Jac SM Kee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >>> > i wish i could paola! >>> > >>> > but at the moment, i'm afraid i dont have the resources to initiate >>> > this. what i could do is connect you with arun, and maybe some >>> > synchronicity might catalyse something :) >>> > >>> > jac >>> > >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> > >>> > What a great idea >>> > >>> > I actually have some Tamil classics (with translations) on my coffe >>> > table, and >>> > of course Sanskrit, Pali, have some important original documents that >>> > need to be made accessible and studied online >>> > >>> > Why don't you start a programme, and get in touch with relevant >>> > institutions >>> > in the respective countries to join in and get the ball rolling? >>> > It would be good to have a parallel developments isn charachter >>> > recognition >>> > technology, as I am not sure all languages have the equivalent browser >>> > compatibe format >>> > >>> > I am sure you can get lots of people interested, hopefully also UNESCO >>> > as a world heritage >>> > programme >>> > I am in >>> > >>> > cheers >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
