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Preservation

Preservation

Time is a great leveler. With the passage of time, objects, animate or inanimate, tend to decay and perish. But certain things need to be preserved and conserved for all they represent historically and all they have to continue to teach us in the future. It is through the human effort of preservation that frontiers of human knowledge and human civilizations have been extended. In an eternal race of human memory against time, it is through the endeavor of preservation and perpetuation of achievements that the continuity of human civilizations has been maintained.  Thus, the successful preservation of history is the bedrock of current human information, knowledge and civilization. Without this attention and effort, elements of nature such as heat, light, humidity and natural decay, natural calamities such as earthquakes and floods, and manmade disasters such as wars and acts of vengeance and vandalism will, singly or jointly, wipe out irreplaceable foundations of the past. Establishment of archives, museums, libraries and the latest technique of digitization are some of the prevalent preservation techniques employed today.

Digitization

Digitization

Digital preservation is the most viable and the only major technological alternative available to us for safe guarding our fast diminishing heritage. In order to contribute to any preservation effort and bring about a positive change, technological advances have to be met with equal amount of concern, enthusiasm, will to take concrete steps and initiative in the right direction.

PDL from its very inception has been at the helm of preservation effort, aimed as saving our heritage and salvaging position of Sikhs and Panjabis as a cultural identity. Providing digitization services to individuals and institutions since 2003, it has been instrumental in digitally archiving thousand of originals of manuscripts, rare books and other literature thus far.

PDL provides digitization services both on site and off site, depending on the constraints. If the material to be digitized warrants special care and cannot be transported to the PDL offices due some reasons, then PDL provides its digitization services right at the place where the material is situated. In such cases, the equipment and the staff is temporarily moved to the close vicinity of the place to carry out the project.

If the material is good enough to be transported and/or the custodian is willing to send it to the PDL offices, it is carried out at the PDL official center itself. The quality of the digitized output does not change in either of the cases, but due to the benefit of complete infrastructure being available, projects tend to finish in a shorter time span when carried at the PDL offices, thus also reducing the overall project cost.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

If you have ever wondered what lies behind the huge work related to the digital libraries in general, and Panjab Digital Library in particular, now is your chance to find out...

Thousands of documents are published every week in our library so it's quite a skill to choose those that are of utmost historical and aesthetic importance and that will be most useful for our readers.

Looking at this complex and busy operation, you might think we have a staff of hundreds to deal with. In fact we have a staff of only 21, including the editorial and digitization team, data entry operators, IT specialists, managers and administrative staff. This has been made possible because of the dedication of our staff and a small army of wonderful volunteers - currently 10 of them - who put in hours of work helping to run our service.

Punjab digital library ki zarort q ha??

Hello!

Hame Punjab digital library ki zarorat q ha,,, jasa k hame pata ha k hum din ba din apne future se dor hote ja re ha hame ni pata k hamare future mai hum kon te kiya te or kaha se te or na hame aj tak kisi ne batya b ni k hum partition k waqt jaha par ab ha yaha tak kase aye or hamari zat pat kiya ti or ab kiya ha kisi ne ni socha ho ga jo din guzar gaya us k bare mai hum ne kabi ni socha,

Bate tu bohat si ha par mai kuch bate he karo ga baqi waqt k sat sat clear ho jaye ge k mera es Punjab digital library ka motive kiya ha or mai es ko q karna cahta ho es liya easy word mai ap ko explain kar raha ho ta k hum sub ko bat samj asake.

Mai es project mai jitni b old books ha qo jis halat mai b ha or jaha par b ha un ko digitize karo ga 

es mai books he ni balke wo har jis digitize ho ge jis ka taluk hamre future se ha wo chahe es punjab mai ho ya india k Punjab mai ye sub hamra virsa ha,,

es mai hamre buzurgu ki picture ho ya hamre kisi b village ki jo partition se pahle ti ya koi b asi ciz jis ki hamre ane wale logo k liya raki ja sakti ha us ko digitize karna hamra motive ha 

es par hum dost mil kar kam kar rahe ha or InsaAllah bohat jald es project ko complete kare ge.

Tahir Zafar                         

                                                                   

About Punjab Digital Library

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I draw the attention of all Punjabi's of Pakistan living in Pakistan or abroad to what the ‘Punjab Digital Library’ operating from Chandigarh  tells us about itself and its work:  

What is Punjab digital mission?

The mission of the Punjab Digital Library (PDL) is to locate, digitize, preserve, collect and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of the Punjab region, without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other physical condition.

                                                  

                                                              PDL is dedicated to:

                        Addressing heritage loss due to environment, ignorance and destruction

                    Saving invaluable treasures to enrich the present and enlighten the future

                    Connecting people globally by providing continued free online access

Why Digitize?

(1) Securing heritage for future generations

(2) Limitless life span of digitally preserved material

(3) Wide availability through internet and easily searchable

What comprises the invaluable heritage of Panjab?

Manuscripts, books, official records, newspapers, miniatures, murals, periodicals, paintings, pictures, architecture etc are all are being digitized at PDL. 

What has PDL already done?

PDL started digitization of historical texts in 2003. Millions of pages were launched online at www.panjabdigilib.org on the 20 August 2009 for public use. To date, PDL has digitized over Eight million pages from different manuscripts, books, newspapers, magazines, photographs, etc

With support from hundreds of supporters and the Sikh Research Insitute we have served government departments, museums, universities, libraries and a number of personal collections.”

I believe this is sufficient for any Pakistani Punjabi who is concerned about his heritage to begin work on similar lines for Pakistan part of the Punjab. I intend to begin this work at the earliest, therefore this website. 

Tahir Zafar: Lahore,

 dated 17-12-2015