Hi, That's a really great news! Thanks for sharing it. I browse quickly the content they have and wow, this is really multilingual. I even found some bilingual books with Breton (mislabelled as French) and I saw a lot of other minority languages!
Do you already know what the next steps will be? Do you need help? Cheers, ~nicolas Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 09:52, Bodhisattwa Mandal < [email protected]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that > National > Digital Library of India > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Digital_Library_of_India> (NDLI), > Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have > signed a tripartite non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a > 2-years partnership. National Digital Library of India is a Ministry of > Human Resource Development > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development> > project, developed at IIT Kharagpur > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kharagpur> > which aims to build a virtual repository of learning resources and > literature metadata. > > Through this understanding, we will work together on: > > - integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website. > <https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/> > - building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource > metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisource websites. > - importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidata > and Wikisource. > - identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other > Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks. > > After months of discussion among the three parties, the understanding was > finalized during International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering for > Digital Library Design 2019, <http://kedl2019.ndl.gov.in/> an > international conference organized collaboratively by NDLI and UNESCO at IIT > Delhi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Delhi>, > where WMF was a technical partner. > > Many apologies for cross-posting the announcement in different relevant > mailing lists. > > Regards, > Jayanta and Bodhisattwa > CIS-A2K > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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