CIS-A2K/Events/Online session on Marathi literature database project
Context
[edit]In collaboration with digitisation partner PNVM and two Wikimedians, CIS-A2K has started working on complete Marathi literature database project. The first workshop in this regards was conducted in PNVM on 9 July 2024. This online session was conducted on 11 September to review the process and refresh the training modules. In this session, two PNVM coordinators and two Wikimedians participated. The advisor for this project, Bodhisattwa Mandal and Subodh Kulkarni from A2K facilitated the session.
Report
[edit]The Wikimedians are organising author-wise data and creating the Wikidata items for books, publishers etc. through OpenRefine. The review of this database was taken with the participation of PNVM representatives. The revision of OpenRefine process was demonstrated by Bodhisattwa. The challenges such as transliteration of Marathi names, duplication of entries, merging of incorrect entries in the past, arrangement of series and volumes etc. were discussed in details. It was decided to form a group of linguists, librarians and computing experts to resolve the issues.