GLAM Project with Nanda Talukdar Foundation
The Nanda Talukdar Foundation is a non-profit organization based in East Sharania, Guwahati, Assam, dedicated to preserving the social and cultural heritage of Assam. Under their Digitizing Assam initiative, the foundation has already scanned 1.3 million pages in collaboration with various institutions across Assam.
This GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Project aims to:
- Upload copyright-free scanned books from the Digitizing Assam project to Wikimedia Commons.
- Create index pages for these books on Assamese Wikisource to facilitate proofreading and conversion to Unicode.
- Promote community participation in preserving and freely sharing Assamese literary heritage.
The project is a collaboration between the Assamese Wikimedia Community and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation.
Project Page
Project Timeline
- 15 January 2025 – Initial contact with Mrinal Talukdar, owner of Nanda Talukdar Foundation.
- 18 January 2025 – Agreement signed between Mrinal Talukdar and Pranjyoti Nath (Assamese Wikimedia volunteer).
- 10 February 2025 – Presentation of the foundation’s book list.
- 20 March 2025 – Pranjyoti Nath visited the foundation in Guwahati for further discussions.
- 1 April 2025 – Official launch at Radhakanta Handique Bhawan, Assam Sahitya Sabha, Jorhat, attended by:
- Mrinal Talukdar (Secretary and Founder of Nanda Talukdar Foundation)
- Abhijit Bhuyan (Technical Support, Founder of Bohniman Systems)
- Pranjyoti Nath (Assamese Wikimedia Community)
- Chanakya Kumar Das (Assamese Wikimedia Community)
Team
- Mentors : Subodh Kulkari (Sr Program Officer, OKI, IIIT-H) & Pundarikaksha Purakayastha
- Project Lead: Pranjyoti Nath
- Technical Support: Chanakya Kumar Das
Resources
- Scanner and Laptop are provided by Nanda Talukdar Foundation on 1st of April, 2025
- In response to this application, a scanner and a laptop were provided by CIS-A2K on 16th June 2025
- Books contributed by Nanda Talukdar Foundation
- Digitizing Assam's official website
- Nanda Talukdar Foundation’s official website