Information Studies
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 1

Searching in and Retrieval From Gsdlmulti-Lingual Multimedia Databases Simultaneously Using A Multilingual Dictionary

  • Author:
  • A. Neelameghan, S.K. Lalitha
  • Total Page Count: 18
  • Page Number: 47 to 64

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore-560010; Email: anm2002@vsnl.net; srels@dataone.in.

Abstract

Describes searching Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) multi-lingual and multi-media databases, the search terms – English, Kannada, or Tamil – being selected from a multi-lingual dictionary. The dictionary also serves as a sort of index to the related databases and is useful in vocabulary management at the data input and search stages.

Keywords

GSDL, Databases, Collections, Multi-lingual, Multi-media, Search and Retrieval, Multi-lingual dictionary, Terms selection