Digitalizing Sikh Manuscripts (Phase II) is a project by Punjabi Wikimedians that focuses on digitalization of rare and prestigious historical Sikh Manuscripts available in village Bhai Rupa, Punjab. This project will help integrating these sources with Wikimedia projects such as Wikicommons, Wikisource, Wikipedia and Wikidata. These manuscripts will be scanned uploaded on Wikicommons and Wikisource. This project has been initiated as a young sikh research scholar approached Punjabi Community to ask help for this project. It is the second phase of pilot project named Digitalizing Punjabi Manuscripts (Phase I).
Gaurav Jhammat will coordinate and manage the project which will be held for six months. Coordination will include organizing field visits, managing team and its coordination, field visits documentation and report writing. Informing the community about project progress will be his responsibility. After completion of scanning task, he will engage the wikisource community to contribute. This work will be based on partial working hours which would be approx. 20 hours a month. For this coordination, he will get 20,000 per month for six months. He will be present at every field visits and will also do scanning work and train other wikimedians and community members for manuscript scanning.
Simar is a Sikh historian and Researcher. He is researching on Sikh History independently from a long time. He has listed some very old and rare manuscripts which needs to be scanned on the priority basis. He is helping Punjabi community to get access of these manuscripts. For this project, we are following his advisory and he has chosen 6 manuscripts which we will scan.
Nitesh Gill is very experienced and prolific Punjabi Wikimedian. She has been very active in Punjabi Wikimedians's activities and events. She is voluntarily participating in this project and She will help us in documentation and report writing.
He is the Program Officer, GLAM & Culture at the Wikimedia Foundation and he is an experienced Punjabi Wikipedian and member of Punjabi Wikimedians User group. Right now, he is a member of project ongoing 'Wiki Rescues Manuscripts' in Indonesia.
He is very experienced Wikipedian and a permanent administrator of Punjabi Wikipedia. He is helping the team in proposal writing and He is willing to contribute voluntarily in the post-scanning work like report writing and documentation.
This project is focused on scanning manuscripts. The manuscripts we have chosen are placed in very different four locations and due to their old and rare heritage value, we can not displace them or shift all of them to one center where we can scan them all. We have to go to their specific location to scan them. So, I have made a budget also focusing on locations.
Gaurav Jhammat will coordinate and manage the project which will be held for six months. Coordination will include organizing field visits, managing team and its coordination, field visits documentation and report writing. Informing the community about project progress will be his responsibility. After completion of scanning task, he will engage the wikisource community to contribute. This work will be based on partial working hours which would be approx. 20 hours a month.
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Scanning
99,500
INR 5 per page (19,900*5=99,500)
3
Travel
55,000
13 field visits will be done.
4
Food
46,000
Food and Beverages during field visits.
5
Accomodation
40,000
Accommodation will be required for staying near to scanning place to attain a more scan count in the same visit. Two out of 4 locations will need this.
6
Safety Equipment
1,000
Manuscripts are very old so they are highly sensitive. We need gloves to prevent any damage from hand touch and we also need some cleaning chemical which removes dust from paper and let the ink becomes more visible.
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Logistics
20,000
Appreciation for the volunteers and advisors supporting in this project.
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Miscellaneous
20,000
Unforeseen situation, for example in case of travel and accommodation or internet.
