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Creation of Digital Archives in Indian Languages using CDS\ISIS:Development of M-ISIS (Malayalam ISIS) and Nitya


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The need for developing Information Systems in Indian vernacular languages is now felt more than ever. Use of local scripts becomes inevitable in the creation of Information systems for digitized palm leaves, manuscripts and local documents. M-ISIS is a localized version of CDSMSIS for Malayalam language and script, which is programmed using ISIS32.DLL created by UNESCO. It is a bibliographic information system for Malayalam documents using Malayalam script. Together with the techniques of 'Nitya Digital Archives' it searches using Malayalam script and retrieves both references and full texts. A special font 'Meera.ttf is designed and a rendering engine to process conjunct formation is programmed, enabling both data entry and query formulation in Malayalam. This paper describes the creation of a digital archive of 'Mathrubhumi' weekly. A few issues of the weekly were scanned to PDF (Portable Document Format) using Adobe Acrobat. Catalogue data of each article was entered into a CDSMSIS database through a data entry worksheet designed in M-ISIS, The prototype shows immense possibilities of localization of CDSMSIS in Indian languages.
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K. H. Hussain
Kerala Forest Research Institute, Trichur, Kerala, India

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The need for developing Information Systems in Indian vernacular languages is now felt more than ever. Use of local scripts becomes inevitable in the creation of Information systems for digitized palm leaves, manuscripts and local documents. M-ISIS is a localized version of CDSMSIS for Malayalam language and script, which is programmed using ISIS32.DLL created by UNESCO. It is a bibliographic information system for Malayalam documents using Malayalam script. Together with the techniques of 'Nitya Digital Archives' it searches using Malayalam script and retrieves both references and full texts. A special font 'Meera.ttf is designed and a rendering engine to process conjunct formation is programmed, enabling both data entry and query formulation in Malayalam. This paper describes the creation of a digital archive of 'Mathrubhumi' weekly. A few issues of the weekly were scanned to PDF (Portable Document Format) using Adobe Acrobat. Catalogue data of each article was entered into a CDSMSIS database through a data entry worksheet designed in M-ISIS, The prototype shows immense possibilities of localization of CDSMSIS in Indian languages.

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