Guest guest Posted July 2, 2003 Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 Sripedia is now an official contributor to ibiblio.org, which at a practical level means that web-space and bandwidth are abundantly and freely available to Sripedia, so relevant content elements such as sound and images may now be added. A copy of the site can be found at http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia. Here are some ideas of content that fit in with sripedia's charter that may now be streamed of the web. 1. Video of Sandhyavandanam being performed 2. Vedic chanting to assist in veda-adhyanam. 3. Divya Prabhandam in santhai form. 4. Upanyasams on Upanisads, Brahma Sutras, & Gita. 5. other contributions/suggestions welcome... If anyone is interested in helping to produce/procure the content or has other suggestions please let me know. Thanks Srinivasan Sriram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2003 Report Share Posted July 3, 2003 Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Srimad Vara Vara Munaye nama: Dear Sriram, I don't have the resources to help you out wrt your first 4 points but I'm going to suggest something. Just as you put the actual text of Brahma Sutram(samskrt with English translation by Thibaut),is it possible for you to put both the maNipravALam text and its English translation of the two gems of collections namely Sri Vacana BhuShaNam and AcArya Hrdayam(which explains Sri Ramanuja sampradayam in nutshell)? I would give my heart and soul for this task. Please let me know about this. Best Regards AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam NC Nappinnai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 How can anyone scan in old texts. That way we can store the info. If you can find out what tools are needed and how one can do that it will be great krishna S. Sriram [ajiva_rts] Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:05 PM Oppiliappan; ramanuja ibiblio & content contributions Sripedia is now an official contributor to ibiblio.org, which at a practical level means that web-space and bandwidth are abundantly and freely available to Sripedia, so relevant content elements such as sound and images may now be added. A copy of the site can be found at http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia. Here are some ideas of content that fit in with sripedia's charter that may now be streamed of the web. 1. Video of Sandhyavandanam being performed 2. Vedic chanting to assist in veda-adhyanam. 3. Divya Prabhandam in santhai form. 4. Upanyasams on Upanisads, Brahma Sutras, & Gita. 5. other contributions/suggestions welcome... If anyone is interested in helping to produce/procure the content or has other suggestions please let me know. Thanks Srinivasan Sriram Oppiliappan Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 "krishna kashyap" <kkalale1 > How can anyone scan in old texts. That way we can store the info. > If you can find out what tools are needed and how one can do that it > will be great > The process of bringing out a text electronically involves the following Note: A variantof this process was used for the Sri bhasya 1. A copyright clearance process. Depending on the text in question, and the need for distribution this would be one of the following a) All texts "first" printed pre-1923 are free of copyright as a general rule of thumb. b) For those printed later permission from either the author, publisher or estate. 2. Scanning in All this requires is a $49-$69 scanner for most works and once attached to a computer this can be easily scanned in. The files are typically saved in .png format to take advantage of space etc. 3. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Typically, the scanner comes with OCR software. For english texts the scanned image can be OCR'd to produce raw digital text output. This will typically have numerous errors and would need proofing Although recently a Sanskrit OCR has been announced by Dr. Venugopal http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/ILT it's efficacy is yet to be determined. For Tamil texts none exist, although I have been working with Project Madurai who are now testing out the Distributed Proofreading software url - http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai 4. Proofread the OCR'd text. This can be done manually or through the use of a Distributed Proofreading process. for. e.g. http://www.pgdp.net 5. Release the e-text If it is copyright free, typically at the start of the process one would use the legal services of a group such as Project guttenbewrg to ensure that it is free of copyright free and subsequetly Project Guttenberg would e-release it in their collection. Since images etc. take up significant web-space i.e. in the gigabytes besides needing wide exposure, sripedia.org has gained official status with ibiblio giving it wide exposure, mirroring on mulitple locations worldwide and access to as-large-as needed web space and bandwidth. Note archive.org is way beyond tera and now reaching petabytes in storage. Please feel free to ask me any further questions that you may have. Thanks Srinivasan Sriram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 Dear sri Krishna This is not a problem, I have scanned in 100 year old texts. Because the quality is not that great, I first make a photocopy using some of the advanced copiers and then scan that. This gives a very good quality (compared to the original). Once i scan them, I save them to PDF using Acrobat. The resulting files are very compact and easy to view across platforms. Once the setup is done, it took me about less than 1mnt per page (with a feeder its much easier). The problem with some ofthe old tamil books on Sri Viashnavam, is they are mixed with grantham, sanskrit and telugu. So an OCR is close to impossible for these books. If I were you, I would recommend using PDF for storing the scanned texts. this preserves the original font face and all the characteristics of the original print. please see: http://www.srivaishnava.org/rare The text of interest is the GPP 6000. Iam in the process of scanning a 1909 publication of Sri Vaccanabhushanam along with commentaries by Sri Manavala mamuni and Sri Tirunarayanpuratt ay, one of Sri manavala mamuni's teachers. thanks adiyEn venkatesh elayavalli http://www.srivaishnava.org ramanuja, "krishna kashyap" <kkalale1@s...> wrote: > How can anyone scan in old texts. That way we can store the info. > If you can find out what tools are needed and how one can do that it > will be great > > krishna > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 "elayavalli" <elayavalli > > The text of interest is the GPP 6000. > > Iam in the process of scanning a 1909 publication of Sri > Vaccanabhushanam along with commentaries by Sri Manavala mamuni and > Sri Tirunarayanpuratt ay, one of Sri manavala mamuni's teachers. > Others on this list have earlier expressed a desire to transcribe the Sri Vaccanabhushanam. I agree that OCR is almost completely valueless, however Project Madurai has now installed the Distributed Proofing and they focus on Tamil etext preparation, i.e. see the image and key in the transcription. It maybe of value to consider using this approach once the book is scanned in. You may look at http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai for more details on PM, their Proofing site is still being tested, those interested may request me separately for its url. Thanks Srinivasan Sriram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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