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Panjab Digital Library

India · built 2003

The Panjab Digital Library (PDL), originally known as the Punjab Virsa Digitisation Initiative (PVDI), is a voluntary organization digitizing and preserving the cultural heritage of Panjab since 2003. With over 100 million digitized pages, it is the biggest resource of digital material on Panjab. There are many historically significant documents stored and made available online. Its scope covers Sikh and Punjabi culture. The library funded by The Nanakshahi Trust was launched online in August 2009. Its base office is located at Chandigarh, India. The library's mission is to locate, digitize, preserve, collect and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of the Panjab region, without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other physical condition. Davinder Pal Singh is the co-founder and the executive director of the Panjab Digital Library, contributing significantly to its mission of preserving Punjab's cultural heritage. It is the biggest online Punjabi resource in the world.

Library data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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