University Knowledge Informatics: A Technical Framework for AI-Driven Knowledge Integration at Banaras Hindu University

The rapid expansion of digital scholarship and research data has transformed university libraries into managers of integrated knowledge ecosystems. Banaras Hindu University (BHU), founded in 1916, possesses an exceptional intellectual and cultural heritage comprising dissertations, research publications, rare books, manuscripts, archives, museum collections, and administrative records. However, these valuable resources remain dispersed across multiple repositories, limiting their discoverability, interoperability, preservation, and global accessibility. This paper proposes a University Digital Knowledge Infrastructure (UDKI) that integrates scholarly, administrative, and heritage resources within a standards-based, scalable, and secure digital ecosystem. The framework incorporates interoperable repositories, digital archives, enterprise networking, long-term digital preservation, and AI-enabled services for semantic discovery, multilingual content processing, metadata generation, research analytics, and knowledge integration, providing a replicable model for digitally transforming research-intensive universities.