Tamil Online Dictionaries
Retrospective Digitization of Tamil dictionaries
Thomas MaltenInstitute of Indology & Tamil Studies
Cologne [email protected]
Tamil (and Sanskrit) Online Dictionaries
1. Tamil Online Dictionaries in Chennai and Chicago
-- Tamil Virtual University, Chennai-- Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, Chicago University
2. Online Dictionaries at Cologne University
-- OTL, Cologne Online Tamil Lexicon (Tamil interface) (Classical Tamil Literature Online [Tamil interface])
3. Current Developments
a) Tamil Lexicon Scans: pdf – online scan – searchable scanb) Winslow Scans: searchable scan – online toolc) Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
Proposal for a new Online Tamil Lexicon
1. Based on Tamil Lexicon (text sources)
2. Academic and research dictionary
3. Retrospective
4. Collaborative
Dictionary Sources
• More than 1000 Tamil Dictionaries
• Bibliographies and bibliographical Databases of Dictionaries
• Physical Identification of Tamil Dictionaries in Libraries
• Classification and Ordering of Tamil Dictionaries:
Tamil sample – Sanskrit sample
Digitizing
1.The Scanned Image, Sample 1 2 3
2. The Searchable Image 1 2
3. Keyboarding (Sample TL: text -- image)
• Tagging
• XML Conversion
• Dictionary Database
Postscript
• Tamil Dictionary on Mobile Phone
• Tamil Novel on Ebook Reader