The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents

The museum constructing homes the biggest reference library for Gandhian philosophy within the state of Karnataka, and over the subsequent 12 months, these staff will undertake the large process of digitizing these books and recording their metadata on the Web Archive: a searchable library of books, speeches, magazines, and different paperwork and media.

It’s an effort to make up for the shortage of library sources in India, and to liberate entry to libraries that aren’t typically freely accessible to the general public. Read the full story.

—Ananya 

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