GLAM Wiki 2023/Program/Wikisource and its growing love for Manuscripts

ID: 2212
Facilitators/Speakers: Carma Citrawati, Udayana University, Satdeep Gill	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 9:00
	Location: 411	Duration: 15 min
Description: In this session, you will learn from: 1. Preservation and Rescue Balinese Traditional Manuscripts on Balinese Wikisource The Balinese people keep an inheritance of knowledge in the form of traditional manuscripts known as Lontar. Lontar is a manuscripts written on palm leaves in Balinese script that provides Balinese knowledge such as medicine, astronomy, history, and so on. The current lontars that the community has inherited are in poor condition and require maintenance. Lontar's rescue requires a large platform and coordinated movement. The Denpasar Wikimedia community began with the WikiLontar project, which resulted in the conservation of many palm lontars in Bali. The lontars are cleaned, identified and digitized so that future generations of Balinese can enjoy them. The difficulties are considerable. Starting with convincing the owner, Lontar's numerous conditions, and the lengthy procedure. Wikisource The saved Lontar Bali found a "new home" on Bali. Wikisource not only saves Lontar images, but it also allows the next generation to learn more about Lontar by reading, typing, and identifying Lontar. The existence of Wikisource as a new home for Lontar Bali is a new source of optimism for Bali's digital lontar life. 2. Wikisource & its growing love for manuscripts Wikisource, a sister project of Wikipedia, is a transcription platform and a free online library of public domain and CC-licensed texts. It is one of the largest collaborative library which support over 70 languages around the world. In past years, we have seen Wikisource growing into the core infrastructure for some of the marginalized language communities. This session will start with an introduction to Wikisource and the associated workflow. The rest of the session will focus on Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa) project. We will share learnings from the WiLMa pilot in Indonesia, including the collaboration with the British Library. Finally, we will end the session updates related to the WiLMa Learning Partners Network.		Experience level: Beginner
		Keywords: Knowledge equity, Heritage at risk
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