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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
