[LIS-Forum] Computerized Databases/Catalogues in Indian Language Scripts - Malayalam

[Raman Nair.]

Computerized Databases/Catalogues in Indian Language
Scripts - Malayalam

This is with reference to a recent  discussion in LIS
Forum about databases searchable using local scripts.
In Malayalam successful attempts have been conducted
from 1995 onwards. Even in the development of
Malayalam script that can be processed by computer
contributions of librarians are notable. The following
are some details about notable attempts. 

Government Brennen College released the Malayala
Granthasoochi 2004 -CDROM on 30.03.2004 which is first
electronic catalogue using search mechanism for
original Malayalam script based on UNESCO's CDS/ISIS. 
Details of this along with information on earlier
similar attempts as well as the research for
developing script and DBMS applications in Malayalam
that the computers can search and sort according to
the syntactic and semantic relations is available at

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007199/01/2004Granthasooji.pdf

A historical perspective of such attempts in Malayalam
is available at

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008565/01/2006Mal.prn.pdf

A copy of the Electronic Catalogue in CD Rom can
sometimes be available to institutions free of cost if
they write to
The Principal
Government Brennen College, Tell cherry, Kannur
District, Kerala.
Another database The Malayalam Granthasooji of Sri.
K.M. Govi was published in CD Rom by
Kerala Sahithya Akademi
Trichur, Kerala.
Trivandrum Public Library, Kerala has also developed a
database in Malayalam as front end to its digital
archives.



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