[Indic-computing-users] Re: [bytesforall_readers] An Indian chapter for Project Gutenberg?

[Sayamindu D. <say...@cl...>]

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Michael Hart wrote:
>>
>> We would LOVE to include an Indian chapter of Project Guteberg!!!
>
> What needs to be done to take this forward? Could someone help with the
> technology and website etc? Maybe we could look around for volunteers
> willing to work on getting the e-texts readied, or seek permission from
> those publishers willing to share their current texts.
>
> Permit me to copy this to two networks -- BytesForAll, which has people
> interested in making computing relevant to the commonman (what better
> way than spreading e-books!) and IndicComputing, a networking working to
> get Indian language computing going in this part of the globe. Once we get
> that critical piece of the jigsaw in place, it could open up lots of
> possibilities. Including for Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.net). FN

Hi,
I would just like to mention here - that there a subproject of the Ankur
Bangla Project (www.ankurbangla.org) which deals with archival of Bengali
literary work. The page of the subproject is at
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/bengali.html
I believe that Mr. Greg Newby is already aware of the project.
Progress on this front is somewhat slow, as the volunteer concerned has to
manually type the entire text by hand, which is quite a time consuming
job.
-warm regards-
Sayamindu



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