Yup! Will be live-tweeting Workshop 1 of 2, under the Two Centuries of Indian Print project tomorrow. #2CIP

The first workshop is under way. Nur Sobers-Khan tells us about the beginnings of the #britishlibrary and the South Asia collections. #2CIP

Nur tells us about the Mewar Ramayana. Unified and online--take a look! bl.uk/ramayana #2CIP

Dr. Layli Uddin, Project Curator, talks about one of the earliest Bengali cookbooks. It was commissioned by the Maharaja of Burdwan. #2CIP

Tom Derrick. Need to enable and encourage use of the collection for research. #2CIP

#britishlibrary making its collections' data sets available for research at a new, beta site data.bl.uk. #2CIP

making the holdings more accessible for the public, not just for researchers and scholars. tom derrick #britishlibrary #2CIP

aaand the inevitable question of #OCR for bengali. google? abbyy? or developing open source like transkribus? #2CIP

Tom Derrick. Thinking of ways to bring books, manuscripts and printing equipment to life through 3D modelling! #2CIP #britishlibrary

wide representation at the workshop! metropolotan library, csssc, west bengal public library, and many more! #2CIP

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Prof Amlan Das Gupta talks about the work that has been happening at #sctr, #jadavpuruniversity. #2CIP

Digitizing the #vmh holdings including the Hyde papers and #bourne&shepherd collections. #sctr #2CIP

Tom Derrick on digital research in the humanities. Introducing the work that is being done at the #britishlibrary #2CIP

Tom Derrick. crowdsourcing the stars with #galaxyzoo and other collaborative digital projects. #2CIP

Post-lunch session about to begin #2CIP

The second team describes its project under the Innovative Digital Projects scheme/game. Very interesting ideas coming up. #2CIP

The last team is telling us about their Innovative Digital Project. One Hundred Ways to Make Buddhadev Bose Great Again. Exciting! #2CIP

Last session of the first workshop. Tom Derrick takes us through the Digital Scholarship Programme of the #britishlibrary. #2CIP