Digitalizing Punjabi Manuscripts (Phase II)

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Handwritten Script of Japuji Sahib

Digitalizing Sikh Manuscripts (Phase II) is a project by Punjabi Wikimedians that focuses on digitalization of rare and prestigious historical Sikh Manuscripts available in village Bhai Rupa, Punjab. This project will help integrating these sources with Wikimedia projects such as Wikicommons, Wikisource, Wikipedia and Wikidata. These manuscripts will be scanned uploaded on Wikicommons and Wikisource. This project has been initiated as a young sikh research scholar approached Punjabi Community to ask help for this project. It is the second phase of pilot project named Digitalizing Punjabi Manuscripts (Phase I).

Event details[edit]

  • Community discussion : On village pump[1] [2] and Google Meet.
  • Start date of preparation: 5 January 2023
  • End date of project: 30 June 2023

Team[edit]

Sr.No. Name Role Remarks
1 Gaurav Jhammat Project Coordinator (Paid) Gaurav Jhammat will coordinate and manage the project which will be held for six months. Coordination will include organizing field visits, managing team and its coordination, field visits documentation and report writing. Informing the community about project progress will be his responsibility. After completion of scanning task, he will engage the wikisource community to contribute. This work will be based on partial working hours which would be approx. 20 hours a month. For this coordination, he will get 20,000 per month for six months. He will be present at every field visits and will also do scanning work and train other wikimedians and community members for manuscript scanning.
2 Simar Singh Researcher and Historian (Volunteer) Simar is a Sikh historian and Researcher. He is researching on Sikh History independently from a long time. He has listed some very old and rare manuscripts which needs to be scanned on the priority basis. He is helping Punjabi community to get access of these manuscripts. For this project, we are following his advisory and he has chosen 6 manuscripts which we will scan.
3 Nitesh Gill Advisor (Volunteer) Nitesh Gill is very experienced and prolific Punjabi Wikimedian. She has been very active in Punjabi Wikimedians's activities and events. She is voluntarily participating in this project and She will help us in documentation and report writing.
4 Satdeep Gill Advisor (Volunteer) He is the Program Officer, GLAM & Culture at the Wikimedia Foundation and he is an experienced Punjabi Wikipedian and member of Punjabi Wikimedians User group. Right now, he is a member of project ongoing 'Wiki Rescues Manuscripts' in Indonesia.
5 Gurbakhshish chand Community Volunteer Support He is very experienced Wikipedian and a permanent administrator of Punjabi Wikipedia. He is helping the team in proposal writing and He is willing to contribute voluntarily in the post-scanning work like report writing and documentation.
6 Jagseer Singh Sidhu Community Volunteer Support They all are willing to support the project team in field visits for scanning purpose.
7 Jagvir Kaur
8 Mulkh Singh

Funding Details[edit]

  • Funding Agency :
  • Budget : 4,01500 INR

Schedule and Manuscripts to be scanned[edit]

Sr. No. Manuscript Name Year (approx..) No of pages (approx) Location
1 Dasam Granth by Bhai Mani Singh early 18th  century 2500 Bathinda
2 Handwritten Gurbani of Guru Gobind Singh ji’s time Late 18th century 2000 Bathinda
3 Handwritten Account of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Darbar Mid 18th century 6700 Bathinda
4 Janamsakhi by Bhai Bala 1890 (approx.) 5000 Amritsar
5 Handwritten Manuscript of Guru Granth Sahib of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's time Mid 18th century 2500 Rajpura
6 Panth Prakash By Giani Gian Singh 1889 1200 Patiala
Total Pages 19,900 pages

Schedule

Sr. No. Location No. of Pages to be scanned No of Visits Required Accomodation
1 Bathinda 11200 8 One night stay (each visit)
2 Amritsar 5000 2 One night stay (each visit)
3 Rajpura 2500 2 No stay
4 Patiala 1200 1 No stay
Total Pages : 19900 Total Visits : 13

Budget[edit]

This project is focused on scanning manuscripts. The manuscripts we have chosen are placed in very different four locations and due to their old and rare heritage value, we can not displace them or shift all of them to one center where we can scan them all. We have to go to their specific location to scan them. So, I have made a budget also focusing on locations.

Sr. No. Location No of Visits Activity Cost
1 Project Coordination 1,20000 INR
1 Bathinda 8 Scanning : 11200 Pages 56,000 INR
Travel : 5000 per visit 40,000 INR
Food : 4000 per visit 32,000 INR
Accomodation : 2000 per visit 32,000 INR
2 Amritsar 2 Scanning : 5000 Pages 25,000 INR
Travel : 5000 per visit 10,000 INR
Food : 4000 per visit 8,000 INR
Accomodation : 2000 per visit 8,000 INR
3 Rajpura 2 Scanning : 2500 Pages 12,500 INR
Travel : 2000 per visit 4,000 INR
Food : 2000 per visit 4,000 INR
4 Patiala 1 Scanning : 1200 Pages 6,000 INR
Travel : 1000 per visit 1,000 INR
Food : 2000 per visit 2,000 INR
5 Safety Equipment 1,000 INR
6 Logistics 20,000
7 Miscellaneous 20,000 INR
Total : 4,01500 INR

Summarized Budget[edit]

Sr.No. Activity Cost (in INR) Remarks
1 Project Coordination 1,20000 INR Gaurav Jhammat will coordinate and manage the project which will be held for six months. Coordination will include organizing field visits, managing team and its coordination, field visits documentation and report writing. Informing the community about project progress will be his responsibility. After completion of scanning task, he will engage the wikisource community to contribute. This work will be based on partial working hours which would be approx. 20 hours a month.
2 Scanning 99,500 INR 5 per page (19,900*5=99,500)
3 Travel 55,000 13 field visits will be done.
4 Food 46,000 Food and Beverages during field visits.
5 Accomodation 40,000 Accommodation will be required for staying near to scanning place to attain a more scan count in the same visit. Two out of 4 locations will need this.
6 Safety Equipment 1,000 Manuscripts are very old so they are highly sensitive. We need gloves to prevent any damage from hand touch and we also need some cleaning chemical which removes dust from paper and let the ink becomes more visible.
7 Logistics 20,000 Appreciation for the volunteers and advisors supporting in this project.
8 Miscellaneous 20,000 Unforeseen situation, for example in case of travel and accommodation or internet.
Total 4,01500 INR