Hi Andy,

Thanks for your interest. 

Most of the works are in Bangla and English languages. For now, we are focusing on Bangla language works to use them on Bangla Wikisource but at some point time of the project, we will be digitizing English books too. Because of resource constraints and to avoid duplication of efforts, we are selecting only those editions whose scan copies  are not freely available on the internet and this filtering is taking some of our time. The library is also prioritizing some of their books to be digitized because of their actual physical condition or rarity.

Regarding the contents of the works, they have wide variety of subjects, both fictions and non-fictions and some definitely have illustrations which, I am sure, can be used on other Wikimedia sites. The library also contains periodicals and a few manuscripts in their collection.

If you have information of any public domain books available in the library, which has not been digitized anywhere and you need them to be digitized by us, please ping us at the project talk page and we can of course forward that request to the library to give us access to those books for digitization.

Hopefully, at least one person from this project will be there at the February conference.

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 00:25 Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 17:53, Bodhisattwa <bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:

> A Wikimedian-in-residence has been trained and assigned to digitize the public
> domain collections of the library, who will be responsible for selection, digitization
> and uploading of the contents on Wikimedia sites.

This is very good news.

Please can you tell us more about the works to be uploaded? What
languages are they in? Do they include illustrations, which will be of
use to Wikimedia projects in other languages? Are they factual, or
fiction? On what subjects?

Will there be a facility to request digitisation of particular works?

Will anyone from the project be at the Wikisource conference in February?

--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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