Dear G K Manju Nath
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.
Hope this information will be sufficient in regard to
R & D in Malayalam in the concerned area
Regards
Raman Nair
--- "G.K.MANJUNATH"
I would like to know whether there is any online OPAC developed in any of the Indian languages? If so, please furnish the URL.
I will be glad to have this information even if such a database is available in LAN in any of the Indian libraries with more than 10000 records.
thanks in advance,
G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065
Phone: 28416544
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