Exploratory study of Indian languages information retrieval in online bibliographical databases

R. Narenthiran (1) , P Ravichandran (2)

1 IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry
2 Annamalai University

The increasing availability of multilingual and multi-script online catalogues, constituted using different cataloguing methods and norms, has led to write this paper. The aim is to explore the problems and perspectives of Indian languages information retrieval on the basis of three online multilingual bibliographical databases selected either for their wide usage and /or originality: World , LC online catalogue and IFP online Webopac.

Mots clés: Indian languages; information retrieval; databases

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

R. Narenthiran, P Ravichandran. Exploratory study of Indian languages information retrieval in online bibliographical databases. Proceedings of the National Seminar on Role of LIS Professionals in Developing Information Literacy Skills in the Digital Era, Department of Library and Information Science, Alagappa University, Aug 2015, Karaikudi, India. pp.334-337. ⟨hal-02915903⟩