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Universal Digital Library—Future research directions

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This paper starts with a description of the present status of the Digital Library of India Initiative. As part of this initiative large corpus of scanned text is available in many Indian languages and has stimulated a vast amount of research in Indian language technology briefly described in this paper. Other than the Digital Library of India Initiative which is part of the Million Books to the Web Project initiated by Prof Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, there are a few more initiatives in India towards taking the heritage of the country to the Web. This paper presents the future directions for the Digital Library of India Initiative both in terms of growing collection and the technical challenges in managing such large collection poses.

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Balakrishnan, N. Universal Digital Library—Future research directions. J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. A 6, 1204–1205 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2005.A1204

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