National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has taken steps towards collaboration with several top digital libraries of the world.

NDLI organized an International Workshop in New Delhi on October 25^th to 27^th, 2017 along with UNESCO, Cluster Office, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Representative from 13 Countries, both as speakers as well as participants, attended this Workshop. NDLI has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with British Library for integrating contents of its “Two Centuries of Indian Print Project”. NDLI is also working closely with European Foundation (Digital Library of EU) in creating a platform for content and technology interchange between over a dozen digital libraries of the world. NDLI has also become a member of RightsStatements.org and sits on its Steering Committee to promote proper dissemination of copyrighted and non-copyrighted digital heritage items. Besides NDLI has integrated contents from several international sources like OECD -Library, PubMed, WHO and a few leading global publishers.

NDLI has several sub-projects to carry out research for making research data of specific domains, like Bio-marked Medical Images, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Pedagogy, available in appropriate forms.

This information was given by the Minister of State (HRD), Dr. Satya Pal Singh today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.

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