One of the most gratifying things about working in India is the public spirit? now working technical skills? and enthusiasm of volunteers all over the country. We have banded together and call ourselves the Servants of Knowledge? a hat-tip to Gokhale’s Servants of India society. and he’s been applying it to mixed-language Gazettes in Hindi and English and to the Karnataka Gazette in the Kannada lanaguge. The code is totally open source? we are beginning to apply it to books? and we are hoping to supplement Google Vision with tesseract and other modules.
The Indian Academy allowed kindly now working
Allowed us to place a Table Top Scribe in their Bengaluru buy sales lead headquarters? a unit which was donated by the Kahle Austin foundation. It has been a true delight to work with and learn about the Internet Archive digitization framework which is extensive and incredibly powerful.
It has a great pleasure to work with and become the Public Library of India is friends with my colleagues at the Academy? including the distinguished Professor Amitabh Joshi who has spearheaded this effort and Professor Partha Majumder? the President. We have in place similar Memoranda of Cooperation and have hosted collections for the JC Bose Trust and the National Center for Biological Sciences.
The Official Gazettes are the newspapers
Since? 2011? Public Resource has worked with Dr. Sushant Sinha? the founder of Indian Kanoon? the amazing free site that provides access to all case law and other legal materials in India. Indian Kanoon was recently honore with the prestigious Agami Prize for service years business up ago to the citizens of India. Sushant and I have been working on a project for a year that we believe is transformational? pulling in the Official Gazettes of India from the central government and 19 states? an archive that is update daily and has over 455 documents. ( of government? akin to the Federal Register in the United States.)