Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Cultural heritage.; Library science.; Application software.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Library Science.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Cultural Heritage.

This book documents the creation of the Bichitra Online Tagore Variorum, a publicly accessible database of Rabindranath Tagore's complete works in Bengali and English totaling some 140,000 pages of primary material. Chapters cover innovative aspects of the site, all replicable in other projects...

Table of Contents:

• The Story of the Bichitra Project
• Tagore's Text
• The Bengali Writing System: Fonts and OCR
• Images and Scanning
• Manuscripts and Their Transcription
• Data Management and Hyperbibliography
• Search Engine and Hyperconcordance
• Collation: Prabhed and its Predecessors.- Planning the Website
• Beyond Bichitra
• Appendix.  .