The mission has proposed a project for Digital Manuscripts Library
For the first time in history, all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind can be digitally preserved and made easily available for our culture, research, education, and appreciation and also for all our future generations. The aim is to setup a Digital Manuscripts Library of India which will foster creativity and easy access to all human knowledge in the form of Manuscripts of this country. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Manuscripts Library with a searchable collection of many valuable Manuscripts, predominantly in Indian languages, available at a one place. This digital library will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this library would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Manuscripts Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, traditional medicine, vedas, tantras and many more disciplines. The result will be a unique resource accessible to everyone, without regard to socio-economic background or nationality.
 
NMM in collaboration with NIC has developed a user-friendly web application for entering meta-data online and accessing the Manuscripts details through a dedicated search engine. The Meta data will be uploaded in the cloud server along with the digital images to be interlinked for providing easy access to digital Manuscripts for a wide public to be used for research and study of various subjects. NMM has developed software taking into account the diversity of scripts, material on which they are written and subjects to which they refer. Such software would enable efficient management of data about custodial institutions, descriptive catalogues, subject directories, preservation status of manuscripts and for accessing the digital images through the search engine and incorporating the same in the digital library. It is being planned to set up a state of the art Digital Manuscript Library at New Delhi with the capacity for 10 users initially (to be expanded upto 100 users) to facilitate access to this knowledge base. Users are expected to access data from a Data Centre through desktop PCs. New data is expected to be added to the storage servers on a daily basis. It is also required that the Data Centre adhere to international standards of data storage, redundancy, uptime, and availability.

Trusted Digital Repository (TDR)
A Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) for manuscripts will establish at NMM for long term preservation of Digital manuscripts. Around 4 lakhs manuscripts initiallyare to be made accessible through TDR. Scholars and experts from different fields of manuscripts will be required to be engaged to read, study and research the complete manuscripts in detail. A deep infrastructure supported by developing latest software, capable of supporting a distributive system of digital archives is required to be setup at NMM. A trusted organization capable of certifying the accuracy of digital collection of manuscripts is also to be selected for this purpose.