December 26, 2020 / Last updated : December 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

APN News: Goemcho Goenkar Aims To Save Goa, Goan Villages, Culture, Tradition, Food And Everything Goa, Digitally For Posterity

APN News: Goemcho Goenkar Aims To Save Goa, Goan Villages, Culture, Tradition, Food And Everything Goa, Digitally For Posterity. “Research for the initiative Goemcho Goenkar is supported by the Centre for Promoting Indian Economy, CPIE India. It’s an attempt to permanently archive Goa (food, culture, tradition, music, religious gatherings, festivals, old roads, bridges, wells, lakes, […]
November 5, 2020 / Last updated : November 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

The Indian Express: Assam’s century-old literary body turns a new page, will digitise its rich archive

The Indian Express: Assam’s century-old literary body turns a new page, will digitise its rich archive. “From the first Assamese language magazine to an ancient treatise on elephantology — publications of yore, some handwritten, some tattered and torn, some considered lost, will soon find a home online, courtesy a mammoth digitising project undertaken by Assam’s […]
October 31, 2020 / Last updated : October 31, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Indian Memory Project: Time travel through the history of a nation (The Hindu)

The Hindu: Indian Memory Project: Time travel through the history of a nation. “During this pandemic, when old albums are being dusted off to rediscover the people in them, the Indian Memory Project, a visual-narrative online archive turns 10. Curator Anusha Yadav on how these sepia-tone pictures are tiny integers in the story of the […]
September 30, 2020 / Last updated : September 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Times of India: Egmore museum to start digitisation drive in October

Times of India: Egmore museum to start digitisation drive in October. “The move will also help India’s second oldest museum in updating its official portal with pictures of its rich collection. The digitisation drive will cover the accession register, a record that contains details of each artefact. According to museum sources, the project will take […]
April 2, 2020 / Last updated : April 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

The Print: Attorney General KK Venugopal converts his rare book collection into public online library

The Print: Attorney General KK Venugopal converts his rare book collection into public online library. “It lists over 570 books, some of which date back to the 17th century. The ‘antiquarian’ or rare book collection has been digitally scanned and made available for the public. The publications cover a wide range of subjects, from religion, […]
January 18, 2020 / Last updated : January 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Devdiscourse: Satyajit Ray’s film manuscripts digitised

Devdiscourse: Satyajit Ray’s film manuscripts digitised. “The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) on Friday launched digitized versions of filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s film manuscripts, IIT-Kharagpur said in a statement. Besides, digitised news reports of Bengali dailies ‘Jugantar’ and ‘Amrita Bazar Patrika’ on freedom struggle and socio-political developments of the pre-Independence era have also been launched, […]
January 13, 2020 / Last updated : January 13, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Hindustan Times: How crowdsourced archives are making Indian history personal and accessible

Hindustan Times: How crowdsourced archives are making Indian history personal and accessible. “Online initiatives such as the Indian Memory Project, The Citizen’s Archive of India (CAI) and 1947 Partition Archives, along with Instagram handles – Brown History and Gulf South Asia, SOAS Postcards – present history in an accessible, unacademic form. They combine an ever-increasing […]
January 9, 2020 / Last updated : January 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New Indian Express: Natural history museum library to go online; rare collections to be digitised

New Indian Express: Natural history museum library to go online; rare collections to be digitised. “The library functions under the Department of Museums and Zoos. It has a collection of about 7,000 books, out of which 500 books fall under the rare collection category. Most of the flora and fauna inside the museum premises have […]
November 26, 2019 / Last updated : November 26, 2019 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Rediscovering Indian thought: How a scholar built a database of pre-Independence magazines (Scroll)

Scroll: Rediscovering Indian thought: How a scholar built a database of pre-Independence magazines. “The database indexes 315,000 entries from 255 English-language periodicals that were published between 1837 and 1947. It is, and will always be, a free resource. The database would not exist were it not for the immense hard work by a core group […]
November 4, 2019 / Last updated : November 4, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New Indian Express: Tamil University to digitize manuscripts with funds from British Library

New Indian Express: Tamil University to digitize manuscripts with funds from British Library. “Rare collections of Tamil manuscripts available in the Tamil University (TU) will now be digitized under the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) of British Library in London. ‘The British Library has approved 51,040 British Pound Sterling, which is approximately Rs 48 lakhs for […]
October 8, 2019 / Last updated : October 8, 2019 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Hindustan Times: Online exhibition ‘Crafted in India’ to showcase handicraft heritage

Hindustan Times: Online exhibition ‘Crafted in India’ to showcase handicraft heritage. “The exquisite basketry of Angami Nagas from Nagaland, Bell Metal Craft of Payyanur in Kerala, the centuries old ‘Mata Ni Pachedi’ textile art of Gujarat and several other crafts of India are now part of Google Arts and Culture platform.”