CIS-A2K/Events/Partnership meeting & training session in Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir
For the last 6 months CIS-A2K has been working with 175 year old Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir Library to facilitate the scanning process in their digitisation set-up. After an official meeting with trustees, they have agreed to work with us to digitise PD books and upload them on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. CIS-A2K will support the digitisation process, right from selection of books till uploading on Commons & Wikisource with OCR. The financial assistance for scanning and technical support in uploading and other Wiki aspects would be provided.
First training session on Wikimedia Commons was conducted on 23-24 November in the library. The trustees and staff of the library attended this session. The copyright law, different licenses and Commons scope were discussed in detail. Hands-on activity for uploading books was also conducted.
They have already started uploading books as per the guidelines. You can see the books here - Books scanned by Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir. As on 20 June 2022, 400 books have been uploaded. We have planned to upload at least 500 books till June 2022.
Team
edit- Mentor - Arvind Ranade
- Coordinator - Tushar Bari
- Organiser - Prasad Joshi
- Wikimedians/Members involved in digitisation & uploading - Arvind Ramchandra Ranade, Tushar Kailas Bari, Pooja Ramesh Kadam, Dalvi Rushi, Gokule Vanita, Prajwalps123
