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Moving Palmleaf.org to Wikisource

March 19, 2020 || David Kamholz

Tags: Balinese Wikipedia, Internet Archive, lontar palm leaf, MediaWiki, PalmLeaf.org, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikisource

Now that the Balinese lontar project on Palmleaf.org has proven successful, the Internet Archive recently suggested that we move it to a well-established platform so the Balinese community can take over management, and so it can be maintained long-term. The obvious choice is Wikisource, both because of the nature of the content (lontar works are […]

Balinese lontar work underway!

September 12, 2019 || David Kamholz

Categories: News, Palm Leaves

Tags: Aksara Bali, Bali, Balinese Digital Library, Balinese language, Balinese literature, Internet Archive, Karangasem, Kawi, keyboards, lontar palm leaf, Museum Lontar Dukuh Penaban, palm leaf manuscript, PalmLeaf.org

In the previous two updates, we described the Balinese lontar digitization project that PanLex is managing for Internet Archive. The goal is to continue the digitization of the Balinese Digital Library’s scanned lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) by transcribing them into Unicode text, using the keyboards discussed in the last update. This work has now gotten underway […]