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Literature On Gandhi Goes Online With Gandhi Heritage Portal

As a follow-up to the last month's launch of an online portal featuring the works of Mahatma Gandhi by Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (first reported by NextBigWhat), the National Innovation Council had conducted a Twitter conference on Gandhi Jayanti. While the conference was meant to discuss the life and messages of Mahatma Gandhi, the website hosts the works of Gandhi, writings on Gandhi by other authors including books, tributes, journals and other media such as videos, photos, among others in 28 different languages from across the globe. According to the publication, Gandhi's autobiography is available in English (100 volumes), Hindi (97 volumes) and Gujarati (82 volumes) on the website along with more than 5 lakh pages on Gandhi, 21 films, 72 audio speeches of Gandhiji and over a 1000 photographs of his. Unlike many other government websites, this website seems to have a good user interfaced, navigation and design. It appears that all the literature is available for free to all on the website and can also be printed directly from the website.  The scanned copy of the books are available on the website only as images that can be viewed using an embedded PDF reader, essentially making it difficult for users to search through the documents. It is not sufficient to just digitize information. The digitized data should also be accessible in such a way that data scientists can also utilize it for extracting specific information. Other digitization initiatives Tata Communications Media Services had announced its plan to digitize documents of…

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