Researchers from IIT-Khatagpur to create ‘Gandhipedia’ 01/12/2019 – Posted in: Daily News

Gandhipedia

 

IIT, Kharagpur researchers to create ‘Gandhipedia’

  • The Indian Institutes of Technology in Kharagpur and Gandhinagar have collaborated with the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) to develop ‘Gandhipedia’.
  • ‘Gandhipedia’ will be a one-stop portal about Gandhian literature, life-events and his social network and the entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  • “Gandhi’s ‘My Experiments with Truth’ will be the first book to be digitised.
  • In the first phase, over 40 books written by Mahatma Gandhi will be digitised and indexed.
  • The books will be used to reconstruct the social network of the Mahatma, including those who had influenced him and the people whom he had inspired.
  • The first phase of the ‘Gandhipedia’ project is expected to be completed by March next year followed by four more phases till March 2024.
  • Project leader, said a total of 100 works of Mahatma Gandhi, including his letters and speeches, would be uploaded in the portal.
  • The researchers are aiming to launch social bots that can post Gandhian text excerpts in multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Tamil on Twitter.

 

Significance

Gandhipedia will reinforce learning from unbiased and un-opinionated real-time insights easily regarding Gandhian values which are uplifting, motivating, revolutionising and tailored to the needs of the browser.”

 

Way ahead

Plans are there to launch similar projects for other freedom fighters including Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh.

 

Source: News18, Image: News18

 

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