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August 30, 2005: Indian Classical Treasure Trove Goes Digital

"A million rare manuscripts, palm leaves, copper plates and age-old classical literature are to be digitised under a project jointly undertaken by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Indian ministry of communications and information technology.

CMU will provide proprietary software and hardware to the Digital Library of India (DLI) for $5 million."

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