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Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
Thousands of ancient Indian manuscripts are at risk of being lost to time, neglect and deterioration. With them could disappear centuries of knowledge in philosophy, science, medicine, astronomy and history.
Preserving them requires conservation, digitisation, translation and sustained institutional support.
Hindu Fund's Manuscripts & Inscriptions Corpus Fund is working to address this challenge.
Support the preservation of Bharat's civilisational heritage.
hindu.fund/project/manuscrip…
#HinduFund #SaveOurManuscripts
@soh_foundation1 @midf_org
Our goal is set: Upload 6 lakh manuscripts by Diwali, creating the largest digital manuscript repository in the world.
The reality?
high-resolution scanning, OCR, and deploying decentralized field teams cost significant capital. We need immediate financial support to sustain this mission.
We are calling on our community to help us reach the right people. If you know leaders in CSR or philanthropists looking for high-impact, we need introductions today.
Please help us raise the funds needed to protect our history! 📜🇮🇳 #PreserveHistory #CSRIndia
#Philanthropy
Explore Smriti: smriti.midf.org.in
Donate: rzp.io/rzp/build-midf
Supporters outside India looking to help build: forms.gle/LbWr8KcMftxRgjtw6
An unindexed inscription is just a rock.
Hitting 25,000 uploads on Smriti is a nice headline, but the actual institutional payload is the 6.4 lakh metadata entries built behind them.
Without that cataloging, you don't have an archive—you just have a hard drive full of unsearchable photos.
Explore Smriti: smriti.midf.org.in/
Donate: midf.org.in/donate
For people outside India looking to help build forms.gle/4T1XpppsXBLzeVmV9
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
How much longer will we wait to realize that archival preservation is not a cultural hobby?
@midf_org
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We're building the world’s largest open-access repository for documented heritage. And we are raising the capital to make this happen.
One mission: To redefine how ancient Indian manuscripts and inscriptions are preserved and accessible in the digital age. And offer true open-source DPI to scholars, institutions, and the world.
Mission: Beyond Digitization
Step 1: We are actively engineering the foundation—machine-readable knowledge graphs, Unicode-compliant cataloging, and standardized metadata schemas.
Step 2: This is where you come in.
We're looking for the visionary partners who can fund or build this with us.
Philanthropists, archival engineers, digital humanities pioneers, and tech builders.
If you're obsessed with where our history is headed, not just where it's been—we want to talk!
Open invitation: [email protected]
Support: rzp.io/rzp/build-midf
This is the risk of handing our civilizational memory over to foreign software that accepts no local liability.
Before India can build truly indigenous AI, we must first secure the foundational digital ecosystem.
A foreign AI tool wiped 15% of Bengaluru’s heritage records in 4 minutes — 8th-century inscriptions, gone. India needs its own digital archive, not borrowed infrastructure. dhunt.in/15rNPz
@midf_org @DailyhuntApp
MIDF is presenting at ( Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge Systems ) BTKS 2026 at IIT Dharwad this September 5–6.
Our session will explore the role of technology and robust digitization frameworks in preserving India’s manuscript and epigraphic heritage.
Open to researchers, technologists, and delegates. Spot registrations are available at the venue.
Know more: btks.iitdh.ac.in/
📍 IIT Dharwad
🗓 September 5–6, 2026
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
India may hold around 10 million manuscripts. Yet to research our own history, we often depend on fragmented archives and foreign-owned databases.
MIDF is working to change that.
Through Smriti, it is building an indigenous, Unicode, AI-ready digital infrastructure to bring India's manuscripts and inscriptions into one searchable ecosystem.
Not just scanning old pages.
Digitisation. OCR. Transcription. Metadata. Semantic search. Data that researchers and future AI systems can actually work with.
Our civilisational memory should not merely survive on shelves. It should be searchable, accessible and owned by India.
Hindu Fund is backing MIDF to build that infrastructure.
Support the project: hindu.fund/project/manuscrip…
@midf_org
#IndianManuscripts #DigitalHeritage #MIDF #HinduFund
Places like Socotra pose a unique challenge and opportunity for archival engineering. A single location housing Sanskrit, South Arabian, Aksumite, Greek, and Syriac scripts requires complex, multi-lingual metadata frameworks to process accurately.
Building the digital infrastructure to turn these inscriptions into accessible, interoperable data is what MIDF is solving for.
Anyone building in epigraphic or digital humanities space ? Actively looking to partner with researchers and technologists. DM or reach out to [email protected].
Without unified Indian repository, our researchers & institutions are forced to rely on foreign owned databases to access our own history
We arent building charity, we are building an open access digital infrastructure
Donate: rzp.io/rzp/build-midf
Partner: [email protected]
Most heritage preservation fails because it’s treated like a charity project instead of a hard data engineering problem.
We are building a unicode, AI-ready digital infrastructure to archive centuries of manuscripts and inscriptions at scale.
We are opening strategic support for international backers and patrons outside India who want to fund high-conviction digital infrastructure.
If you want to back this build: 📩[email protected]
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
In the AI era, digitization alone is no longer enough.
The larger opportunity is to turn Bharat’s vast civilizational knowledge into a living knowledge layer that can power research, education and future AI systems.
This is also about strategic advantage. AI will increasingly shape what societies know, remember and believe. If our knowledge is fragmented, poorly represented or interpreted mainly through external datasets, bias gets encoded at the foundation.
An Atmanirbhar and Sovereign AI future needs its own trusted knowledge infrastructure.
@midf_org is on a mission to help build that foundation by connecting, structuring and making Indian Knowledge Systems usable for the AI era.
Bharat has the corpus, the depth and the intellectual inheritance. The window to build this is now.
If you are working on manuscripts, Indic knowledge, AI, language technologies or open knowledge infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.
Reach out: [email protected] or [email protected]
@GyanBharatamMoC @MinOfCultureGoI @porwalpoo8
theprint.in/feature/gyan-bha…
Gyan Bharatam is spending crores to scan India’s manuscripts, but scans alone don’t make knowledge usable.
The committee is now calling for a tech overhaul.
MIDF is already building it:
✅ Searchable
✅ Structured
✅ Research-ready knowledge infrastructure
xitter.cf/midf_org/status/206615…
@MinOfCultureGoI @gssjodhpur @SanjayJhaBihar @PMOIndia
Gyan Bharatam needs tech overhaul. Scanning manuscripts not enough, says committee report
Krishan Murari @krishan018 reports
#ThePrintFeature
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MIDF - Manuscript & Inscription Digitization Foundation X VerSe Innovation ( dailyhunt, Oneindia ) 🚀
We are excited to announce MIDF’s partnership with VerSe Innovation to bring India’s vast manuscript and inscription heritage straight to millions of screens nationwide!
At @midf_org - Manuscript & Inscription Digitization Foundation, our mission is to build the infrastructural backbone and AI-ready archives for India's historical treasures. By pairing our sovereign-grade digitization technology with VerSe Innovation’s massive regional distribution network—spanning @DailyhuntApp and @Oneindia are ensuring our civilizational legacy transcends geographic barriers.
@Sunil8267 @kartikayb @BhattaPN @RahulDewanV2 @Shreyas_Mysuru @sudarshanhs @porwalpoo8