The CLARIN K-Centre for Indian Language Innovation and Publishing Infrastructure (Indian-LIPI) is a specialised knowledge centre that provides expertise in multilingual digital scholarship and cultural digital heritage. The initiative is a joint effort of digital humanists at the JPN Centre and Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at IIT Indore. By combining expertise in language technologies, publishing studies, and digital humanities, Indian-LIPI supports researchers, archivists, and digital humanists working with Indian languages, textual archives, and publishing infrastructures. The centre aims to function as a regional and international hub for collaboration, training, and methodological support in multilingual digital research.
Housed within IIT Indore’s main campus, the Centre’s physical infrastructure spans specialised laboratory spaces, scanning facilities, and seminar rooms designed for both technical operations and humanistic inquiry.
The Centre’s digital stack is designed for long-term preservation, open access, and interoperability — aligned with FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
The Centre’s most important infrastructure is its people — a multidisciplinary team spanning Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Social Sciences, and technical support, guided by national and international advisory bodies.
| Body | Composition | Role | Key Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Advisory Committee | Senior scholars from IITs, national institutes of eminence | Strategic oversight | Research priority-setting; curriculum design; project selection |
| International Expert Panel | Scholars from Oxford, ECU, FU Berlin, Heidelberg, KGU Japan | International quality assurance | Global benchmarking; collaborative workshops; peer review |
| Project Selection Committee | High-level scholars, double-blind external reviewers | Research quality control | Evaluation of proposals; merit-based selection across 2 funding rounds |
| JPN Faculty Team | Core faculty at IIT Indore (HSS Department) | Day-to-day leadership | Programme delivery; faculty-led research; external funding mobilisation |
Indian-LIPI serves as the primary broad portal for the following Indian languages, covering all aspects of language use, documentation, and digital infrastructure.
The Centre has supported projects in marginal languages outside the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution:
The JPN Centre brings a strong track record of peer-reviewed publications, edited volumes, and open-access digital scholarship spanning multilingual DH, digital cartography, corpus linguistics, and publishing studies.