India's National Digital Library (NDRI) to collaborate with top global digital libraries

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At an international workshop hosted  by UNESCO and IIT-Kharagpur last week, the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) announced that it is planning to collaborate with top digital libraries of the world. The UNESCO has also promised to promote the digital libraries and resource-sharing activit

At an international workshop hosted  by UNESCO and IIT-Kharagpur last week, the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) announced that it is planning to collaborate with top digital libraries of the world. The UNESCO has also promised to promote the digital libraries and resource-sharing activities of SAARC countries, an IIT-Kharagpur release said.

National online educational asset

The NDLI project, funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, was kick-started by IIT-KGP with the aim to create a national online educational asset for students interested in research and innovation.

"While procuring international content is one aspect, being inclusive and open is also important. The information should be made available in all forms, be it data, technology or content," the press release quoted Professor P P Das, who is the in-charge of NDLI, as having said.

(Read: Attention bookworms! Digital libraries launched by NDMC, 68 lakh books available)

Digital cultural heritage 

NDLI has been collaborating with Europeana Foundation, an organisation tasked with developing a digital cultural heritage platform for Europe, for the past few months. Some other digital libraries that expressed interest in collaborating with NDLI are Tainacan Project (Brazil), National Library of The Netherlands, National Library of South Africa and National Library of Nepal, the release said.

About 200 domain experts from India and abroad, including representatives from Microsoft Research, Google and Taylor & Francis, participated in the international workshop. The workshop deliberated on the state-of-the-art technology, practices and policies accepted internationally for digital library design.

The national library has become a leading digital repository of country with approximately 1.26 crore content resources -- thus bringing a significant change in the domain of online content search for both academics and general readership.

(With inputs from PTI)

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