Digitizing Materials in India

The Hindustan Times is reporting that Carnegie Mellon University and the Indian ministry of communications and information technology are teaming up to digitize a million rare manuscripts and other items from across India. "According to SVDL director BS Reddy, the DLI has launched an awareness campaign to collect the literary treasure-trove from institutions, organisations and individuals who have the priceless material in the form of manuscripts, palm leaves and rare books." The digital library as it stands is at http://dli.iiit.ac.in/. There's already a lot here in several different languages.

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