Experts at the International Heritage Symposium and Exhibition (IHSE) highlighted the necessity of digitization of ancient books and manuscripts and making them alive through this initiative.
“Digitization should focus on connecting books with society, economic system, including cross referencing, commentaries in it and not merely preserving them as PDF documents,” Secretary Department of Science and Technology (DST) Professor Ashutosh Sharma pointed at the panel discussion on Digital Heritage Technologies being implemented by the government at the IHSE.
He added that the purpose of digitization of books should be able to provide new incite or knowledge and new models should be evolved for that.
Experts pointed out the necessity of developing Optical Character Recognition (OCR)s of the Indian languages to make looks alive, searchable and relevant. They said that social scientists, language experts and technologists need to work together towards this common interest and share expertise in their respective fields.
