 Hello everyone. Thank you for having us in this session. Maybe during our presentation you can have your tea or coffee. First, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Gita Purnama and this is my wife, Charma Chitravati. We are a volunteer of Denpasar Wikimedia, which is part of Indonesian Wikipedia. We also lecture at Balinese Language Department at Udayana University. So in this session we would like to present to you our presentation. It is about the challenges and rescue the Balinese manuscript or long time on the Balinese Wikisource by creating the metadata, cataloging and digitizing. So I have divided my presentation into five parts. And the first part I'd just like to just giving you a brief information about what is long time, what is Balinese long time actually. Maybe some of you have heard about long time before this is your first time heard about long time. So this is just like a brief information about long time. And then we would like to continue to explain deeper about the background of this project and then move to the advantages of this project and then the challenges of the project and the last and the activities to retrieve the manuscript. So first, okay Balinese long time. So what is Balinese long time? Long time is one of the writing material in Bali. So actually long time is not known in Bali but also all around in Indonesia, maybe in Cambodia, India and some part of South Asia. But in Bali we have a different type of long time. And then long time are made from the palm leaf. So in Balinese term we have at least three names for the palm leaf. So long time or long time is a local language, Balinese language means leaves, and time is the type of the palm leaf. So the specific palm leaf or I said the Latin name of the palm leaf is Porasus Flabeli-Lin. So another name in Balinese is Siwalan and also Antal. So Javanese also known this kind of family as Siwalan. So we have same term of long time in Java and Bali, Siwalan. And the last term, Antal, Antal is a specific name only known in Bali. So each part of Bali the people call this palm leaf Antal. So we have three different names in Bali. And then to make long time. There are some stages to make long time from raw material from the palm leaf into writing material. There are some stages. So we started from harvesting the leaves. You can see clearly maybe from the image. The first image is how people in Bali are harvesting the palm leaf. And then the second part of this process is clean or wash the palm leaves, the second image. And then after we clean it and then we boiled the palm leaf with specific ingredients. So there are some specific secret ingredients. Okay, this is a very secret ingredient because every single family, they have their different secret ingredients to make these kind of writing materials. And then after we boiled the palm leaf, then we dry the leaves under the sun. It's like, okay, the fifth image, we dry the palm leaf under the sun. And then the last step is pressing the leaves with specific tools. So the last image is, we called it palm lag bag. So these tools make the leaves flat. So we pressed the leaf. It takes a very long time. So it takes from six months to one years. Press the leaves to get the best result of writing material or long time. Then we jump to the next four points. So this is the tools of writing on long time. So as you can see this one, okay, I would like to do this one. This one is a specific or special knife to writing on palm leaf. We call it Peng Rupa. So it's totally different with another knife. We made this very specific knife only for writing on palm leaf. So besides image, you can see how we handle the knife. It's like that. And then start to scratching the script on the palm leaf. And then the next step, we inked the script with candle nut. So we don't use ink, actually. We burnt the candle nut until it burned and then used the charcoal to ink the script. And the final result of this activity is the last image. So the script will be shown. And in long time it's not only script but also image or illustration. And then, yeah, it's just like a brief information for all of you about long time. So next is the background of this project. Balinese actually kept a lot of long time, especially in their houses. Recently data showed that there are more than 25,000 long time around Balinese which is kept in Balinese houses. So unfortunately the condition of this long time is very bad and all of the long time need to be preserved. And as this movement background is because we believe we Balinese we are proud about our culture and long time kept a lot of valuable things about our culture. Long time kept valuable things such as literary works and then traditional medicine, astrology, such beautiful illustration art just like what I've shown, mantras, everything. So that's why we think it's really important to save our culture or indigenous. And then until we've made this project there are no digital resources for Balinese long time which is integrate long time data into people's houses in Bali. So that's the background of this project. And then the advantages about this project maybe we divided into four, at least four advantages of this project. So we've done to preserving the indigenous heritage. We've done about 602 long time in this project. So this project run start back in 2020 and then finish in 2021. And then because of this project we believe that we're saving the local knowledge and wisdom which are contained in the long time. So the creating integrated metadata for Balinese long time and also this project is the first integrated online data for Balinese long time. And then the most important for us in this project we can increasing the digital resources for Balinese local knowledge. It is useful for researchers who have concern for Balinese language and culture. Maybe in the future it will be useful for the next generation of course of Balinese next generation. And then of course this project has a lot of challenges that we face in this project. As you can see on slide convincing the owner of the manuscript, the bad condition of the long time making the metadata because we've got problem about our internet connection of course. And then how to encourage the young generation, the last challenges. I would like to explain deeply one by one. So convincing the owner of the long time. This is the most important things to do at the first time before we do this project. So convincing the manuscript long time in considered confidential and private. So maybe this is the first time you know about long time. And long time is a secret things for Balinese people. It's a very, very secret things. And this is a very private collection. So in Balinese actually there are two type of long time. Yeah I can say government long time which is kept in the government library. So this kind of long time is not secret. You can access free for free access. But when you want to access the long time from private collection, Balinese people collection, it's really hard to get access. Therefore to access the long time is impossible without any permission from the owner or the priest. Some of Balinese still believe that the owner can be cursed by their ancestor if they open their collection to stranger. So this is a challenging part to convince that you will not curse by your ancestor actually when you open your collection to us. When you join, when you get involved in this project. So this is the most challenging thing that we convince the, when we convince the manuscript owner. And then most of the long time which is kept by the people in Balinese houses, they are owned by a big family member. So if you want to get access, you have to get agreement from all the family member to get approval from all the family member. You have to wait, they have to make a meeting for all the family member. And commonly family's meeting is held every six months or when they held a big ceremony. So it's really challenging with time. As you know when we get grant from Wikimedia for example, there is a limit time. It is impossible to work more than one year for one, repeat grant maybe for example. It's really hard, it's really challenging to get permission, to get access to open this collection. In this project actually we had planned to access 12 private collections yet when we convince the owner half of them rejected our proposal and just a half of them, yeah we got permission from the half of 12. So this is the condition of Balinese long time. Is it clear? Maybe? Yeah. Okay, so the condition of the Balinese long time. This is the collection of the private collection, I mean private collection of Balinese people. This is not a government collection. So the condition, the situation is just like this. The condition long time itself mostly in a very bad condition. As you know long time is a biological material, so it's very easy. They are very vulnerable to rodent by insect, fungi and weather. And the rescue of the mages long time cannot be done. Those restraining the jitising process. So approximately 40% of long time we encountered in this project are the mages. So this is the other challenges of this project, how you can read in complete manuscript. We just try to imagine what is the text before this text. And we need to compare with another manuscript. So we are lucky because we have much, a lot of manuscript with the same title, the same content. And then we can compare it. When we found just like a half page of manuscript, then we can compare it with another that have same content or have same title. So move to the other challenges of this project is creating metadata. So actually we run this movement since 2016 before we joined in Wikipedia. So in 2016 to 2019 we did this movement preserving or creating metadata manually. We just type it on our computer or on laptop and then we have no digital resources to save our data actually. Then 2019 we met with some of Indonesia Wikipedia members and then we start established the Wikimedia then PASAR community and we start to learning how to create a metadata from Wikipedia. And then to 2021 or 2022 actually we proposed the proposal and 2021 we continue starting this project. So the project named Wikilontar project which is focused on creating metadata on Wikipedia platform. So Wikidata, Wikikamons and Wikisource. The other challenging things in this creating metadata is the internet connection at the project site. Some of us manuscript owner lives in a very remote village. So there are no internet connection. So can you imagine it how we input the data on site where there are no connection. A bit challenging thing we have to find a higher place to find a signal and internet and then insert the data and then back again to the site. Because we cannot bring the long time out of the site. We only get permission to input the data on site or you take the photo on site. So the other challenging on creating the metadata. And then the last challenging is how to encourage young generation in Bali to get involved on this movement actually. So actually young generation, we are young generation, we are still young of course. We are still young. And then how to get involved in another young generation to get involved in this project. This is another challenging thing for us in Bali Wikipedia. So in the young generation mindset, long time are old relics. So there are only four older generation. So long time is not for young generation. So we have to change this mindset actually. And then the other mindset of young generation cannot make a living from long time. So long time doesn't have any economic value except you sell it to the collectors. Of course, but we didn't did that things because this is our ancestor cultural heritage. So we want to sell it to the collector even though it has a high value of economic value. So the last is how to the rescue activities. So there are five steps of preserving, digitizing and creating metadata. So the first one is checking the long time condition. So before we preserving the long time or manuscript, we have to check condition one by one, pages by pages. So when we finish check the condition and then we start to preserving the long time. So that image when I was checking the condition of the manuscript and then the other image is how we preserve the long time. We cleaned the surface of the long time from the dust, insect or fungi. We use citronella oil and alcohol. We mix it and also we use candle not cut charcoal to make it dark again. And then the next step is digitizing the long time. Actually in this project we only got permission to digitize the first page and the last page of the long time. Actually the manuscript or long time it has hundreds of pages but we only got permission for the first pages and the last pages. Why? Because in philology maybe you know the first pages is usually contain the identity of the long time. The title who is the writer of the long time and the last pages usually contain the age, the date when the long time was written. And we are using digital camera for digitizing. We don't use scanner machine, no. We only use digital camera. So the next, creating metadata. So this is how we create the metadata of the manuscript. We input the identity of the long time on Wikipedia, all of the identity, the kind of long time and then the site of the long time, the location of the long time and then the title of the long time, the language of the long time and the type of the long time. Everything, the identity about the long time and then we also input the location of the long time as you can see the red dot here. This is Bali's island map and then there are a lot of red dots. So that are the site of the manuscript and the title of the manuscript. Also we upload the images on Wikicamons. So the final result is the map and the data on the right. Next. Okay. Sites we creating metadata, we also retype the text on long time. As you can see, this is a Balinese Wikisource, Wikipustaka. The name of Balinese Wikisource is Wikipustaka. So Pustaka means literary works actually. So the long time image, we retype again with Balinese script and then they are automatically translated into Latin or Romance. So yeah, this is another site advantages of this project. So we've made this script, become easy to read to others. So, okay, I think the next step of this project is cataloging. As in my presentation title, the final result of this project is catalog for Balinese manuscript long time. So working on the design and layout of the long time catalog. And then we uploaded the vinyl catalog on Wikicamons. You can find that link free or download of course. And then the final step is handing over the catalog and some souvenirs from Wikipedia to the owners. Okay. And this is my last page. So if you want to know more about our project, please join and visit our website on banwikisource.org. Actually, we've done more than 602 long time in this project. And this is ongoing project. Next, we hope this can be kind of inspiration movement to others community in Indonesia. Maybe for another community that has a local manuscript. It's like what we've in Bali. So the last page of my presentation is Suksma. Thank you very much for your attention.