Electronic versions of printed texts (abbreviated as ETexts) of
ancient literary works are important pedagoic and scholarly resources.
Stored in easily accessible archives, they permit preservation and wider
distribution of ancient literary works around the globe through the means
of internet. Etexts of literary works also allow quick search for phrases,
words, and combinations of words in any literary work. There are many
projects currently active world-wide that attempts to put in electronic
form ancient literary works.
"Project Madurai" will be an open and voluntary initiative to
collect and publish free electronic editions of ancient tamil
literary classics. This means either typing-in or scanning old books
and archiving the text in one of the most readily accessible formats
("ETEXTS") for use on all popular computer platforms. Some of the text
files will also be converted to HTML files, and put up on the World Wide
Web servers so that anyone located anywhere may download a copy for
personal use or read what we publish on the internet, free of charge.
While major emphasis will be given to produce etexts the tamil literatary
classics in native tamil script, popular tamil works will also be made
available in 'transliterated/romanized' text format widely used by western
indologists. The project will be coordinated by a handful of volunteers,
most of which have Project Madurai s as their hobby, just like you!
Please consult the
webpage of the Univ. of Virginia for a collection of projects in
languages of the world. Alex's
catalog provides on-line search of available etexts. There are already a handful
of etext archiving projects of tamil works, some by major universities:
and also by a handful of individuals.
One of the major goals of the Project Madurai will be coordinate
such scattered activities. A tentative
time-table of the work being undertaken is available. Anyone
who would like to coordinate or volunteer for this project, please contact
the project leader or the
dy. project leader.
Project Leader:
Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram,
Lausanne, Switzerland
(kalyan@geocities.com)
Dy. Project Leader:
Dr. P. Kumar Mallikarjunan,
Griffin, GA, USA
(kumar@vt.edu)
The project coordinators and working groups come from around the world and growing.
To find who is in the team click here.
Interested to contribute?
If you are interested to participate in the project, send an email to the
Project Leader or to one of the regional
coordinators expressing your plans and/or interests. Be specific in
stating in which way you will like to contribute and specify the work(s)
if any that you are interested. We can go from there.
For introductions about Project Madurai in Tamil you can select this article
"From Vedas to Electronic Publishing"
written by Dr. N. Kannan.
This file was last updated on August 21, 1998.
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