Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Somehow I didn't send this letter for long long time as I started to write it in December.
> Srinivasa Das was looking at a Muslim site and they were talking about the confused Hindus and the were citing vedabase.com again and again as their source of True Hindu beliefs!
Super! In fact that is one of the goal of the project to become accepted by scholars as good resource for research and references.
There are already few universities which uses vedabase.com as recourse for their teachings.
> What about the Index and User Bookmarks etc?
Main engine is ready now. We started to synchronize languages by paragraph. As soon all books which are in current version will be done we will switch to new system. And quickly after that categorization will be there.
There is also initiative to import Indian languages. Currently Tamil, Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam are in progress.
Yesterday (6th May) we got licence for TamilOCR software we just bought, so devotees will be able to scan and convert whole Srimad Bhagavatam in Tamil language.
> Especially necessary is an Introduction page:
> 1) How to use the Vedabase technically, and 2) How to use understand the priority and how to read the books.
Yes! Frontpage is going to be refactored with good structure, short info about site with link to documentation 1) and 2), block with latest news (added book, new feature, other news...). All this will be in upcoming version. I am quite busy with service for TOVP (Temple of Vedic Planetarium), but I think it is doable to launch new version for celebration of 50 years of Srila Prabhupada's leave to US.
Part of 1) should also include short videos which will show how to use different features.
I have read this on jayarama.us (some time ago): "VEDABASE.COM: We want to help with an Introduction that will organize the Visitor’s reading."
Would you like to write it? If you will have time and energy we could speak about it in Delhi.
> Definitely should be big part of the ministry of education, no??? Your ideas now???
Yes. Everybody is welcome to use it. As far as I know website is much used for online education of part of Mayapur Institute, Bhaktivedanta College, ... Also if there are special requirements for education institutes/groups I may be able to help by adding new features or optimizing current ones.
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das
HpS - AGTSP Thank you for this Christmas letter! We can show you one idea for an "Introduction to Vedabase.com". Now we are in Spain and then Radhadesa, then 4-weeks in Nashville, so we should be able to send ideas then.