"The British Library used a unique mechanism to bind together thin books to preserve them. "So over 20 institutes worldwide have signed up," he said.Īccording to Layli Uddin, project curator (Bengali) at the British Library, the approach is three-pronged: cataloguing, digitizing and contextualizing.Ībhijit Gupta, joint director, SCTR, says the thinner the book, the rarer they are.
To overcome these challenges, the library is running a competition to find an optimal solution for automatically transcribing the Bengali books that have been digitized as part of the project. It is underserved by commercial OCR whose focus is more on Western patterns," explained Derrick. "We are dealing with historical Bangla and the changes in the language, so the typography is unique. OCR is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer. Another aspect to the project is applying OCR (optical character recognition) to transcribe the Bengali script. It marks the start of a major program to share the wealth of Indian printed books held by the British Library dating from 1713 to 1914. The TCIP pilot project is a partnership between the British Library, the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR) of Jadavpur University, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and the Library at SOAS University of London, involving collaborations with the National Library of India.
There are treatises on sciences, education, religion, missionaries coming to India and translations of the Bible," Tom Derrick, Digital Curator, TCIP told IANS at the Jadavpur University on the sidelines of a symposium exploring the history of print in South Asia. There are books literally from every discipline you could think of. As part of the 'Two Centuries of Indian Print' (TCIP) project, in total, 4,000 early printed Bengali books, amounting to more than 800,000 pages, will be digitized and made freely available online. The British Library, which is leading an international partnership to digitize rare material from its South Asian printed book collection, has scanned 1,000 old and rare printed Bengali books from the 19th century, according to project coordinators.
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