Public Resource has two other major efforts in India, both of This project which we believe have the potential to be transformational not only in India but in the rest of the world.
In Delhi, we have a formal memorandum of research cooperation with Dr. Andrew Lynn of Jawaharlal Nehru University where we have created the JNU Data Depot, an effort to advance text and data mining on the scientific corpus by researchers.
The system is carefully modeled after This project
The Hathi Trust effort in the U.S. and makes carefully whatsapp lead secured access to the corpus available to non-commercial university researchers who are able to perform non-consumptive text and data mining. in Nature, the international journal of science. In addition to the JNU facility, Public Resource has installed a mirror at IIT Delhi, under the direction of Dr.
Sanjiva Prasad. We have a distinguished board of advisors from universities throughout India and have received legal advice and counsel from some of the most distinguished intellectual property experts in the country, including he filed a petition that challenged Professor Arul George Scaria, Professor N. S. Gopalakrishnan, Professor Feroz Ali, and Professor Lawrence Liang. I have also been grateful for the personal insights and friendship provided to me by Dr. Zakir Thomas, a senior civil servant and the former Registrar of Copyrights for India.
One of our initial programs in
India has been to make available all Indian Standards, the business to consumer marketing public safety codes of India. We have made 18,471 such standards available in our Public Safety Codes Collection and the documents have been invaluable for millions of Indian students, government officials, and others who need to consult these valuable government-issued rules and regulations.