A STUDY OF THE DIGITIZATION PROCESS TO PRESERVE THE CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF A CIVILIZATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND IT S IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS

摘要

Venturing into the arena of digitization, technology has been innovative in establishing digitized manuscripts and e-books. Digitizing and archiving manuscripts and documents blanketing texts and images using digital cameras and scanners are being viewed as a stepping stone to the use of technology. To be a part of Generation Next, focus has to be on up to the minute technology of digitization. This entangles to preserve not only manuscripts but also the culture and heritage depicting it. Preserving the artefacts, manuscripts and paintings through primitive techniques physically in historical societies and libraries has limitations. Highlighted restraints are access to general public and lack of facilities to safeguard valuables and keep in place their vulnerability. Manuscripts and documents when archived through chemical methods do not most of the time depict actual bearings. Digitization of rich culture and heritage documents and manuscripts would recalibrate these constraints and iron out most of these limitations. The paper focuses on the digitization process to preserve the artifacts using natural language processing techniques and indexing and also highlights the future of digitization to enhance the cultural heritage of a nation.