Manuscript Expert

Nagpur

• Manuscript Decipherment: Accurately read, interpret, and transliterate manuscripts written in traditional Indian scripts such as Devanagari, Modi, and Sharada.
• Script and Linguistic Analysis: Identify, classify, and analyze manuscripts by script, region, time period, and linguistic style.
• Data Preparation for AI Models:Collaborate with AI researchers to prepare annotated datasets for training OCR and transliteration models in Indic scripts.
• Digital Cataloguing and Metadata Creation: Assist in creating descriptive metadata and scholarly catalog entries for digitized manuscripts.
• Scholarly Validation: Review AI-generated outputs for accuracy and authenticity in decipherment and transliteration.
• Cross-disciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with linguists, computer scientists, and IKS scholars to develop AI-assisted manuscript analysis frameworks.
• Training and Documentation: Create instructional materials and provide input on script recognition guidelines for internal AI and research teams.

The Manuscript Expert will play a key role in the decipherment, interpretation, and analysis of digitized manuscripts written in Devanagari, Modi, and Sharada scripts. The role demands a balance of traditional palaeographic expertise and openness to collaborating with AI engineers and linguists to train intelligent systems capable of reading and interpreting ancient texts.