Hello,
Recently Tuebingen University
<https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university.html> (with
the support from German Research Foundation) ran a project titled *Gundert
Legacy project* to digitize close to 137,000 pages from *850 public domain
books*.
All these public domain books are in the South Indian languages *Malayalam,
Kannada, Tamil, Tulu, and Telugu*. In this 293 books are in Malayalam, 187
in Kannada, 25 in Tamil, 4 in Telugu and Tulu.
Also there was a separate sub-project which was run as part of this
project to convert 136 titles in Malayalam to Malayalam Unicode. The number
of pages that were converted to Unicode is close to *25,700* pages.The
Unicode conversion project was ran only for Malayalam. For the other
languages it is just the scanning of books
The project is complete now and the results of the project is available in
the Hermman Gundert Portal
https://www.gundert-portal.de/?language=en which
was released on Nov 20. A news report is available here.
<https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/german-scholars-malayalam-mission-all-set-to-get-a-digital-makeover/articleshow/66633108.cms>
To view the books in each language you can navigate through the various
links in the portal. For example, malayalam books are available here:
https://www.gundert-portal.de/?page=malayalam
Now we need to upload these scans to Wikimedia Commons and Unicode text to
Malayalam Wikisource (25,700 Unicode converted pages)
The first priority is for the scans that are converted to Unicode. Is it
possible to write a script to migrate the scans from Tuebingen Digital
library to Wikimedia Commons? (I can share the exact details of books
converted to Unicode if needed)
All the digitized files are heavy and the size ranges from 100 MB to 1.5 GB
depending on the number of pages in the books. So manually managing this is
going to be a big challenge.
Can some one help with this?
Shiju Alex