Sunday, April 23, 2017

Digital Library of India just a big joke! and utter waste of money.

 After using the Harvard library, US  national  Library of congress and  Google books,I was trying  to  look at some  telugu books listed  to be in the Digital library of India from a wikipedia article.
at first I kept getting error saying that such a webpage does not exist!
Then I realized that somebody in their infinite wisdom decided to suddenly change the URL for the digital library of India from

at least someone knew  their ernet-email will most likely not work,so their contact email is a gmail

feedback.dli@gmail.com

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in
to

http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/

without  preparing  a redirecting  page/link etc which as a non computer software professional with only rudimentary HTML knowledge,know how to make and why it is important

None of the links below sare working  ( as of today  4/23/2017)
no wonder if anybody/somebody can tell that this is a major failure.



As of 2016, DLI digital library of India had scanned 550,603 titles.

Just one single University of Texas library  has nine million books in total
funny 
They scan books and do not know what  language the book belongs to HAHAHA
Language Wise Report as on   23/Apr/2017
LanguageNo of BooksNo of Pages
Unknown28551150294

suddenly some  kannada  chauvinist decided to  write  it  in kannada  letter instead of english.
so all that part  will not be seen by  any one  who can not read the  kannada  alphabet .

Languages
Prakrit [2]
Punjabi [402]
Rajasthani [4]
Roman [2]
Russian [8]
Sanskrit [35110]
Sindhi [86]
Spanish [26]
Swedish [13]
Tamil [5379]
Telugu [23318]
Tibetan [1037]
Turkish [133]
Unknown [6358]
Urdu [32273]
ಕನ್ನಡ [128]

go to telugu wikipedia  page 

Resource not found

org.apache.cocoon.ResourceNotFoundException: Page cannot be found
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The Manakin interface of the DSpace digital repository software.


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