Congrats to everyone behind this effort! - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ________________________________ From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> To: "wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com" <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>om>; Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:43 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] German University of Tubingen partners with Malayalam Wikipedians to digitize the works of Herman Gundert. Hi all,         Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership between Malayalam Wikipedians & German University of Tubingen to digitize the works of Herman Gundert. Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into some 42,000 pages. A detailed history of this effort can be read here http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by Shiju Alex in Malayalam) Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource : https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9… The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization  project of the University of Tuebingen” will be started soon. Some News Coverage : The Hindu : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam… Times of India : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5Lz… New Indian Express : http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Mala… Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who are part of this effort. Regards Tinu Cherian _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

There are a lot more manuscripts in the university collection. An 1839 catalogue of the manuscripts can be read here http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/diglit/MhIII118-1/0001?sid=f05289236bd266a5d… 870 is the figure given on http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/digitue/tue/Ma_I_Indische_Handschriften best wishes Shyamal

This Programs is the Announcement Of the Gundert Legacy Digitization Project of Tubingen university and Partnership With Malayalam Wikisource. We just done a Prototype model model that what we are doing in this project. Tubingen university Scaned the Book (Orayiram pazhamchol (1850) - Hermann Gundert) and published as in public domain. Check the index page സൂചിക:Orayiram pazhamchol CiXIV39 Tubingen Gundert Collection.pdf<https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%9… This book is typed by school students of some government public shcool apart of their it@school Extracurricular activity. The Participants names are in book's talk page <https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%82:%E0%B4%92%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B4%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8A%E0%B5%BD>. After the Unicode encoding,next beautifully typesetted in Tex for generate PDF and EPub Versions with the Help of Sayahna Foundation<http://sayahna.org/>.The output books are available here pdf<http://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/orayiram.pdf> epub <http://books.sayahna.org/ml/epub/orayiram.epub> The Press Meet Program related to this Project was held in Press Academy, Ernakulam on Sept 12, 2013 Photos are available here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gundert_Legacy_Project Shiju or Viswettan can Explain more :) On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;prad2609(a)yahoo.com&gt;wrote;wrote: