Google (GOOG) has offered to digitize 800,000 manuscripts and books from Mysore University in Karnataka, India. The manuscripts are written on paper and palm leaves.
From the University's view, it is a great opportunity to preserve and restore a rich cultural heritage.
J.Shashidhara Prasad, Vice Chancellor of Mysore University, said, “Many manuscripts on ayurveda, mathematics, medicine, science, astrology and economy including ‘Arthasastra’ and several paper manuscripts of the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore will be digitized first.”
Prasad added that a number of the digitized manuscripts would be patented, and once the work was over, would also be printed.
Google is doing it for free, with the benefit for them being the eventual links they'll receive from the material.
Physics students from the university will be trained to help in the digitization process. Once it's completed students, historians and scholars from around the country will have access to the digital material.
Once it is done the world will know about the greatness India
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