The document discusses various digitization projects in India that aim to preserve rare and historical documents by converting them to digital formats. It describes projects by the National Archives of India, Nanakshahi Trust, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Digital Library of India, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, Internet Archive, and Million Book Project that work to digitize manuscripts, books, and other materials in order to make them more accessible and protect fragile originals from damage.

2.  Digitization is the process of conversion of
materials from formats that can be read by
people to a format that can be read only by
machines.
 Digital images are electronic snapshots of a
scene or a document.
 The image will be sampled as picture
elements (pixels) or grid of dots.
 Digitization is the process of conversion of
materials from analog to digit format.

3.  Preservation of original manuscripts
 Preservation of old fragile documents
 Wide availability to public
 reproduction of any number of copies for
simultaneous access,
 Easy access through digital libraries
 Searching and browsing facility
 Helps in education and research

4.  Computer system
 Scanner
 Digital camera
 Image editing software
 File Compression software
 Optical character recognition software

5. In 2001, National Archives of India in
collaboration with Department of Science and
Technology (DST) and National Institute of
Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore initiated a
pilot project to preserve rare documents such
as Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavatgita and
made available through Compact Disk (CD)
form.

6.  In 2001, Nanakshahi a registered trust at
Punjab under a project called Virsa has
digitized one hundred and fifty manuscripts
of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and other
manuscripts in Government Museum and Art
Gallery, Chandigarh and Kurushetra
University.

7. A national level mission for preservation of rare
documents in India was launched by
Department of Culture, Government of India
digitized sizable number of manuscripts.
A National level project has been taken out by
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA)
for digitizing manuscripts.

8.  In 2005, a pilot project for digitization of
manuscripts is taken up by Khuda Baksha
Oriental Public Library in Patna, Bihar
 Digitized 21, 000 manuscripts in various
languages such as Arabic, Turkish, Hindi,
Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit written on palm-
leaves

9.  Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC) has completed
digitization of rare manuscripts and old
magazines both at Nagri Pracharni Sabha
(NPS) and Varanasi Digital Library Project for
preserving rare manuscripts, which is being
published during 19th century to 1960.

10.  It is an initiative for preserving and making available of
human knowledge freely to search, access one million
books of Indian languages predominantly through the
web.
 Partners of DLI project are, Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), IISc, Bangalore, IIIT, Hyderabad, and other
academic, research, religious institutions in India. Totally
21 major participating centres joined with GOI.
 DLI is for digitizing one million books (less than 1% of
books in all languages).
 The funding body for the million book project are,
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India is
funding for Indian Institute of Science (IISc), The Ministry
of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT)
funds for various other centres, which pledges their
resources to DLI and National Science Foundation (NLF)
funds for scanners and software research and
development.
 At present, there are 4,80,334 documents of 168691700
pages have been scanned and made available

11.  Traditional knowledge is passed from person to person
through oral communication and some part of the
information is saved through some medium, which is not
able to understand and accessible.
 In order to preserve such rich traditional knowledge a
project called Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
initiated in 2001 is a collaborative one between Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of
Science and Technology and Department of AYUSH,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which is implanted
at CSIR.
 TKDL preserves the information in languages and formats
understandable by the patent examiners at International
Patent Officers (IPOs), to avoid issuing of patent wrongly.
 This project involves in documenting traditional
knowledge such as Ayurveda, siddha, Unani, Yoga in
digitized form in five international languages (English,
German, French, Japanese, and Spanish)

12.  It is a collection of digitized books from many
different libraries the world in many
languages covering different subjects.
 These digital files have been downloaded
from the Google site and uploaded to the
Internet Archive by users.
 These books have been made text
searchable.

13.  This project is to create a free-to-read, searchable
collection of one million books, primarily in the
English language, available to everyone over the
Internet.
 Digital library containing over one million scanned
books, with optical character recognition when
possible to support full text searching, is the goal of
the million book digital library project.
 Collection contain either out of copyright or scanned
with permission; and are multilingual, including
several Indian languages, Chinese, several European
languages, Persian, Farsi and Arabic.

14.  It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart.
 It is a digitized collection of full text public
domain books.
 In 2015 collection includes 50,000 books.
 Books in many languages were included in
the collection, even though majority of them
are in English language.

15.  It is a digital library created by of Library of
Congress and funded by UNESC0.
 It provide resources for educators, scholars,
and general audiences
 It a collection of manuscripts, maps, rare
books, musical scores, recordings, films,
prints, photographs, architectural drawings,
and other significant cultural materials.