Databases in Indian Languages:Some Issues
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Date
1998-03-04
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
Not much progress has been made in India regarding machine readable
databases containing records of materials in Indian languages in the languages
and scripts of the items. Major projects that have been initiated or completed
include i) machine readable version of the National Bibliography of
Literature, ii) Tamil collection of the Roja Muthiah Research Library in
Chennai and iii) collection of the library of the Deptt. of Indology of EFEO.
Discussions regarding the use of Indian language scripts in the designing of
language databases are made by citing the provisions of different codes and
standards. Based on the experience gained in a project for the creation of
multi-script database, the authors describe some issues related to multilingual
databases, multilingual thesaurus, compatibility between different languages
and provide few suggestions. There is a need for developing multilingual
thesaurus in Indian languages to facilitate indexing and searching of materials
available in Indian languages and scripts.
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Multilingual Database, Thesaurus