GLAM for Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya


 * Grant contact name: Sujay Chandra
 * Grant contact username or email:Sujay25 (sujay77@gmail.com)
 * Grant contact title (position):Member of Wikimedia India Chapter
 * Project lead name:Sujay Chandra
 * Project lead username or email:Sujay25 (sujay77@gmail.com)
 * Project lead title (position), if any:
 * Full project name: GLAM for Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya
 * Amount requested (in INR):50,500
 * Provisional target start date:01.09.2015
 * Provisional completion date:30.03.2016

Introduction
The main objective of this project is to create, curate and make openly accessible images from the Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya library for the benefit of students and members, researchers and enthusiasts using open knowledge Wikimedia platforms.

Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya genuinely believes in providing seamless access to knowledge and resources of the library to its students and staff. Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya also has a keen concern in contributing its resources and knowledge openly for use and study, which would in turn further nurture the literacy movement globally.

Scope
This project aims to synchronize the sharing of resources between the Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya and the Wikimedia community. The NAAC accredited (B++ level scoring 84%) College library comprises approximately two Thousand books and periodicals including Probashi, Bharatbarsha,Basumati, Udbodhan, The Calcutta Review, Sri krishnakirtan Kavya and Early Indian Prose from their first publication. In addition to these books and periodicals, the library is also having a rare collection of zoology specimen and zoology microscope slides collected and preserved by college faculties and students. Most of these books are in Bengali, but there are several books and periodicals are in other languages as well, including English and Hindi and Sanskrit. There are some rare manuscripts( almost 300 years old) in a personal collection of the Librarian,who has gladly commited to donate them for Public Domain.

Project goal
The goal of this project is to get more content for Commons and Wikisource relating to Bengali literature by establishing more partnerships with educational institutions.

Future scope
The collection of the library will expand on yearly basis, resulting an ongoing GLAM project. Every year, a respectable volume of books/periodicals will be open for public domain, which will be digitized and added to public domain.

Impact
Apart from the digitization project with the Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya, the team will also interact and involve the museum staffs and members in the following ways to establish a stable relationship between the college and the team in order to value and internationalize the history of Indian literature as well as the history of Bengal.


 * Organize training and workshops on Commons, Bengali Wikipedia and Bengali Wikisource.
 * Organize training and workshops on digitization process.
 * Organize on-site regular edit-a-thons on Bengal’s literacy activities.
 * Involve college staffs and students to participate in short term Wikipedia quality article writing contests.
 * One-to-one outreach with interested college staff and member
 * Involve female college students to turn them into active Wikipedian, consequently diminishing gender-gap.

List of activities

 * Phase I:	Photography of zoological specimens and slides
 * Phase II:	Digitization of Books
 * Step1:	Workshop for the management staff and students of Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya
 * Step2:	Phase I upload
 * Step3:	Phase II upload
 * Step5:	Edit-a-thon with students and staffs of the college

Non-financial requirements
None

Fit to strategy

 * The project is addressed primarily to increase reach of Bengali Wikipedia and Bengali Wikisource.
 * The project is addressed primarily to increase participation from seeking new editors systematically in several possible quarries.
 * In addition the activity linked to the museum will contribute to increase quality of related articles.

Other benefits
We believe, through this project, can persuade other libraries of Kolkata to come forward and digitize their collections in collaboration with us. We can get some positive media attention for this project, which may also encourage other content owners to unrestricting their material.

Measures of success
Number of GLAMWIKI projects with cultural institutions: 4
 * Around 200 images of zoological specimens and slides will be contributed to Commons.
 * Approximately 1,00,000 pages will be digitized and uploaded to Commons.
 * Number of new editors:
 * Short term: New editors during the courses and workshops: 5
 * Long term: Number of those editors who continue editing one month after the event: 1 to 3
 * Female editors: 1

Investment from WMIN

 * Budget breakdown

Team members

 * Santanu Chandra
 * Sujay Chandra
 * Ananya Mondal