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Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
This site is dedicated to the researchers and other personnel who have been keeping alive the thoughts and vision of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Pandit Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India.
To see the general website giving information about the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, please visit
http://www.nehrumemorial.com
To see the activities at Nehruplanetarium, visit
http://www.nehruplanetarium.org
Message from the Director, Dr. Mridula Mukherjee
A Vision for NMML
The NMML is not just a Museum and Library as the name suggests. It is as much an institute of advance study in the area of modern and contemporary history and one of the largest Archives in the country for material relating to the Indian freedom struggle in particular and modern and contemporary India in general.
Computerization of Library:
The entire activities of the Library are to be automated through complete computerization thereby reducing the paper work to a minimum. With the help of a comprehensive and dynamic website, all catalogues of resources available for research in the form of books, newspapers, private papers etc. will have to be digitized and made available on the net. The computerization of the Library will vastly improve services to the users from all over the world
Digitization Initiative:
The research resources in the form of documents, microfilms, photographs, books etc. in the NMML are very rich and the NMML is the only such institution in the country having abundant source material on the historical and social developments during the colonial and post colonial India. Digitization of such rare material has to be done immediately for preservation of the materials for posterity and for easy dissemination.
The digitization of this material has two objectives. The first one is preservation. The second objective is to make information about the contents of the collections available to a global audience.
TENDER DOCUMENTS for DIGITIZATION
Digitization So Far.....
6th January 2009
The digitization Committee of NMML met and approved the selection of TSCPL for the bid process management of the digitization project.
11th February 2009
Legal agreement signed between NMML and TSCPL for the procurement process for digitization.
10th March 2009
Expression Of Interest (EOI) advertisement in all the major dailies
13th and 14th March 2009
Two day Conference on "Best Practices in Digitization" organized at NMML, where we got inputs from IGNCA, National Archives, C-DAC, Delhi university, CSIR , Doordarshan and others who were in various stages of digitizing their artifacts.
18th March 2009
Pre bid meeting for EOI
23-24th March 2009
The digitization team at NMML attended the Indo-US Workshop on international trends in digital preservation, organized at Pune by the Department of Information Technology and C-DAC.
25th March 2009
Responses to queries by vendors uploaded on nmml.in website.
9th April 2009
Extended last date for submission of EOI. Technical proposals from valid tenders of 40 bidders opened.
11th May 2009
10 vendors shortlisted by the project evaluation committee for issue of Request For Proposal
5th June 2009
RFP and Terms of Reference issued to shortlisted vendors
Read the minutes of our pre-bid meeting with short-listed vendors by clicking HERE
5th &6th August, 2009
Vendor presentations at NMML
24th August, 2009
Financial proposals opened of 3 solution providers, approved by the selection committee/s based on technical competence.
19th October 2009
Service Contract for “The turnkey project for digitization NMML archives and Implementation of an IDMS” was signed with M/s HCL Infosystems Ltd, who qualified as per Quality and Cost based Selection (QCBS) evaluation by the technical and financial committee.
ACCESS ON PAPER
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Interesting links to libraries of the world
Please click on the links below
Link to National Archives of Egypt
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.eg/nae/home.jsp
Link to "National Library of Australia"
http://www.nla.gov.au/digital/index.html
Link to "Picasso museum Barcelona"
http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/
Link to "Guggenheim Museum"
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Click on the rose for our BLOG
Digitization So Far.....Continued
3rd January 2010 to 31st March 2010
Setting up the digitization centre and installing scanners and computers by the Solution Provider.
Setting up the server room.
3rd February, 2010
The Business Requirement Document (BRD), detailing metadata structures for various forms of artifacts, was signed with the Solution Provider.
19th April, 2010
The digitization centre is fully functional.
3rd May 2010
Contract signed with M/s 3iInfotech Ltd, NOIDA, who qualified the technical and financial bid for Project Management Consultant (PMC) for digitization.P>
Finalized a workflow and dataflow chart for the manuscripts, photographs, microfilms and transcripts which are being digitized.
15th September, 2010
Vanilla installation of document management software on servers. HPTRIM, the software being used by HCL Info Systems supports workflow processes of digitization and upload and download of files to and from the storage system. Information that can be stored in the software includes: digitized images with embedded metadata; (metadata is created by us for all the artifacts based on Dublin core standards).
26 November 2010
Signing of the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) document for the Integrated Data base Management System (IDMS) by NMML. The IDMS presents a user-friendly interface integrated with HP Trim.
As of 27 November 2010, 7.17lacs images have been digitized. This includes 6.18 lacs no. manuscript and transcript pages, 79,000 microfilms, and 20,000 photographs.
19 January, 2011
Advertisement issued for the compression software required for large scale data generation(PDF-A technology).
13th March 2011
Signing of Contract for Adobe PDF-A (archival compression software) with HCL Infosystems
The catalogues of nearly 2.5 lakh books available at NMML library are uploaded on to the website of http://www.nehrumemorial.com in searchable pdf files.
6th April, 2011
A pilot with 2 lac documents compressed with Adobe A and embedded with metadata ready for User Acceptance Test (UAT)
28th August 2011
Delivery of pilot project with 7 lacs digitized documents by the Solution Provider
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