{"id":4715,"date":"2004-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/01\/2004-11-01-palm-leaf-collection-goes-digital\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-01-palm-leaf-collection-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/01\/2004-11-01-palm-leaf-collection-goes-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Leaf Collection Goes Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/autofeed.msn.co.in\/pandorav3\/output\/Technology\/a0632ea1-75c7-44ef-b979-2df18e98be88.aspx\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KERALA, INDIA, October 27, 2004: One of the world&#8217;s largest palm-leaf manuscript collections in Kerala is going digital. In a process expected to last more than five years, experts have begun digitizing the collection of over ten million palm leaves with centuries-old writing in the state archives department. The manuscripts on palmyra palm leaves are a rich source of history of Kerala and southern Tamil Nadu. &#8220;We expect the whole work to take at least five years,&#8221; said S. Raimon, archives department director. &#8220;As a first step of digitization, we are carefully dusting the palm-leaves and cleaning them using preserving oil,&#8221; Raimon told IANS. &#8220;This would take more than a year and then they will be scanned and the data stored in CDs.&#8221; Cultural affairs minister A.P. Anilkumar inaugurated the project expected to cost US$2.3 million here Monday<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKERALA, INDIA, October 27, 2004: One of the world&#8217;s largest palm-leaf manuscript collections in Kerala is going digital. In a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}