GLAMTLV2018/Submissions/Indian Wikisources and GLAMs

Merged into State of the Wikisources (panel)

Submission no. 41

Title of the submission

Indian Wikisources and GLAMs

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Author(s) of the submission

• Satdeep Gill
• Sailesh Patnaik
• Stalinjeet Brar
• MKar
• Jayantanth

E-mail address

• satdeepgillgmail.com

Country of origin

India

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

• Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
• Odia Wikimedians User Group

Type of session

• Panel (2-5 panelists, sharing time to discuss a topic, with / without a facilitator, 30 min)

Length of session

• 30 minutes

Ideal number of attendees

• 20

Abstract

Not many projects like Project Gutenberg exist in Indic languages and not many books are available on projects like Archive.org.

So, various Indic communities partnered with GLAM institutions to start building Wikisource in their languages and in some cases individual volunteers gathered books and scanned them themselves. This way, some languages are getting their first ever online libraries. Over the years, Indian community members have adopted new strategies to approach institutions and individuals in getting the books for Wikisource, which has different learnings and challenges from different communities.

What will attendees take away from this session?

1. Best practices from different Indic communities and how they can replicate them in their communities.
2. Working with the small groups in archiving digital knowledge.
3. Discuss the challenges among the Indic community members and how we can overcome them.
4. How to approach institutions in countries with less awareness about digitisation.

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