8:30-9:00

Registration: Safeda Lecture Room

9:00-9:15

Welcome from NCBS

9:15-9:30

Participant introductions

9:30-10:00

Introduction to the British Library, the major digitisation projects and South Asian collection at the British Library – Tom Derrick

10:00-11:00

Description and arrangement of the material (the archival standards) – Nicolas Moretto

11:00-11:30

Refreshment break 

11:30-11:45

Lightning talks #1: Ashoka Archives of Contemporary India; Centre for Public History – Srishti

11:45-12:45

Digitisation strategy and workflows (physical preservation, condition assessment, image capture standards, digital surrogate creation, curation and ingest into infrastructure) - Tom Derrick

12:45-13:00

Lightning talks #2: FLAME University; French Institute of Pondicherry

13:00-14:15

Lunch 

14:15-15:15

Group activity – formulating a digitisation strategy + feedback from each group

15:15-15:30

Lightning talks #3: Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Indian Music Experience

15:30-16:00

Refreshment break 

16:00-16:15

Lightning talks #4: Janastu/Servelots; Keystone Foundation

16:15-16:45

Feedback forms (for those only attending day 1) and workshop close

17:00-17:45

Optional tour – Archives at NCBS

09:00-10:00

Accessibility (metadata standards & discovery systems) - Nicolas Moretto

10:00-10:30

Accessibility (Introduction to OCR tools that can be used for Indic scripts) – Tom Derrick

10:30-11:00

Refreshment break 

11:00-12:00

Practical exercise – experimenting with OCR tools – (led by Tom Derrick)

12:00-12:15

Lightning talks #5: QAMRA; Sahapedia; SPARROW

12:15-12:45

Digital research case studies from the British Library – Tom Derrick

12:45-13:00

Final comments, feedback forms and certificates

13:15-14:15

Lunch