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Prakash Kamat:Process
of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in
six months’ time
The Goa University has re-launched
a four-volume Konkani Vishwakosh (Konkani encyclopaedia) and announced its plan
to upload the same on Wikipedia so as to build the Konkani Wikipedia.
The project is seen as a major
stride in Konkani learning, research and production of books. The project, which
will involve 42 students of the Konkani Department of Goa University including
four designated as Ambassadors of Konkani, will turn students into producers of
knowledge rather than mere consumers of knowledge. The University has signed a
three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and
Society (CIS) for building up the Konkani Wikipedia.
“Wikipedia is a global phenomenon
and a platform to bring people together for making creative activities possible,
which in fact, has challenged the monopoly of publishers and created a movement
in order to put together knowledge, further making it accessible to public,”
said Satish Shetye, Vice-Chancellor of Goa University, speaking at the launch of
the project.
Narrating how the project began,
Registrar of Goa University V. P. Kamat explained that Mr. Satish Shetye, who
took over as Vice-Chancellor over a year ago, happened to notice the huge piles
of hardbound volumes of the Konkani encyclopaedia stacked in the Goa University
library and wished to digitise the manuscripts and re-launch the encyclopaedia.
The idea to upload the whole content on Wikipedia was thus born.
The work for the Konkani
encyclopaedia project was commissioned during the tenure of the first
Vice-Chancellor B. Sheik Ali. The project was seen as a historical step to
document the identity of the State and its people and the history of Goa for
posterity. University insiders, however, said that no serious efforts were made
to take the invaluable research work undertaken beyond the University. Secondly,
because of the lack of human resource and funds, no initiative was taken so far
to update these volumes.
Initiative
Prof. Shetye took a proactive
initiative and tied up with Access to Knowledge Programme of the CIS. The four
volumes of the 3,632 page Konkani encyclopaedia are being released under
Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0 to support the movement of open knowledge
and open access.
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