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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, A2K Research, Open Content, Openness
It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay Madgaonkar from the Marathi language department took the lead to develop a project around this theme.
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, GLAM, Wikipedia, A2K Research, Open Content, Openness
The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in collaboration with Marathi department of Goa University, Bhakti Dnyan Marg Sanstha and Goa Central Library. The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge Programme facilitated the project with technical and financial assistance. Two local students scanned 12000 pages in 8 days. The year wise volumes of O Bharat are now freely available on Wikimedia Commons in the form of archive.
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Digitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada to bring more books on Telugu Wikisource: by Pavan Santhosh — published Feb 12, 2016 — filed under: Telugu Wikisource, CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
This 12th, A digitisation sprint is being organised for student Wikipedians of Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada. Students will learn about scanning books, will use OCR engine and digitise books on Telugu Wikisource. The event is organised by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikimedian Viswanadh will be participating to mentor the new Wikimedians.
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Digitisation, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Orientation Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune District: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 04, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:37 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Openness, Marathi Wikisource
A digitization workshop was held at Vigyan Ashram, following the success of the introductory workshop in February.
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Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 04, 2014 — last modified Jan 31, 2014 06:33 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Openness
The Malayalam Wiki Grandhasala has announced a competition in digitally preserving rare books in Malayalam.
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Digitization of Books for Indic Language WikiSource: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Wikimedia India in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society is organising a workshop on "Digitization of books for Indic language WikiSource" on August 18, 2013, 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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Digitize any Book in the Public Domain: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 27, 2014 — last modified Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
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DIPP RESPONSE TO CIS (FIRST) RTI - FEBRUARY, 2015: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Apr 14, 2015 — filed under: Government Information, Access to Knowledge, DIPP, Intellectual Property Rights, Accountability, NATIONAL IPR POLICY, IPR THINK TANK
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DIPP RESPONSE TO CIS (SECOND) RTI - FEBRUARY, 2015: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Apr 14, 2015 — filed under: Government Information, Access to Knowledge, DIPP, Intellectual Property Rights, Accountability, NATIONAL IPR POLICY, IPR THINK TANK
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DIPP RESPONSE TO CIS (SECOND) RTI REQUEST - FEBRUARY, 2015: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Apr 14, 2015 — filed under: Government Information, Access to Knowledge, DIPP, Intellectual Property Rights, Accountability, NATIONAL IPR POLICY, IPR THINK TANK
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