On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 09:59, 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net < [email protected]> wrote:
> > One has to admire Qatar, they have preserved records pertaining to their > history with the Qatar Digital Library. These records don't belong to them, > they belong to the British Library but they have collaborated with them and > set up their own project to preserve and make available to the public their > past. Actually at one point I wanted to do something similar with all the > research I had which I had photocopied from various archives but I > understand from my techy husband that the cataloguing of it online is not a > simple matter, it requires very specialised software. So I gave up that > idea. Also since 2016, after photography became permissible in the > archives, we all stopped photocopying. > I think the "Million Book Project" [http://www.ulib.org/ <https://web.archive.org/web/20080614093014/http://www.ulib.org/>] is far more impressive in its scope and conceptualisation. That the Indian-origin prof Raj Reddy [http://www.rr.cs.cmu.edu/mbdl.htm] played a crucial role, makes it even more interesting. It is the reason why we keep finding PDFs of even Goa-related books (from disparate libraries) surfacing all over the place... often when we didn't even know these existed! Two descriptions of the MBP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Book_Project https://web.archive.org/web/20080614093014/http://lbslibrary.typepad.com/bizresearch/2007/11/the-million-boo.html Getting a scanned, copyright-unencumbered book online isn't too difficult a task. One can just upload the same to archive.org My collection is here: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 It's a mix of mostly audio + PDF files (also recordings, interviews, music), and they allocated a separate folder on which to store it. Not particularly academic, though. FN -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53%2Bc_7ALEcUE3TW06XmGa8fJ2x4Ai4x6%2BdXewTB%3D4Te9-g%40mail.gmail.com.
