The entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), an IIT Kharagpur statement said on Friday.
Mahatma Gandhi (Photo: iStock)
To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, two IITs and National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) have joined hands to develop ‘Gandhipedia’, an online repository of books, letters and speeches written by the father of the nation.
The entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), an IIT Kharagpur statement said on Friday. In the first phase, over 40 books written by Mahatma Gandhi will be digitised and indexed and their portions tweeted, it said.
“The books will be used to reconstruct the social network of the Mahatma, including those who had influenced him and people whom he had inspired,” the statement said. The first phase is expected to be completed by March next year followed by four more phases till March, 2024, it said.
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IIT Gandhinagar is also a part of the project along with IIT Kharagpur and NSCM, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Culture. Professor Animesh Mukherjee of IIT Kharagpur’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering said Mahatma Gandhi’s book ‘My Experiments with Truth’ will be first used for reconstructing his social network.
Professor Mukherjee, who is leading the project, said a total of 100 works of Mahatma Gandhi, including his letters and speeches, would be uploaded in the portal.
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