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Logo of XOBDO
XOBDO's index page
Screenshot of XOBDO's welcome page
Type of site
 Online Dictionary
Available in12
OwnerAn Online Community
Created byBikram M. Baruah
URLhttp://xobdo.net/
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

Xobdo.org is the first online Assamese dictionary to become available online on March 10 2006[1]. As of June 27 2008 the database of this dictionary contains 15000 words of Assamese language. This is a wiki, where anybody can contribute and edit words in the dictionary provided they have a substantial knowledge of the Assamese language. This website uses UNICODE fonts which ensures global visibility of Assamese fonts when users set their character encoding option to Unicode (UTF-8).

The dictionary is the brainchild of Bikram M Baruah[2], an Assamese petroleum engineer based in Abu Dhabi. Later a lot of interested people specialized in different areas joined as the working force behind this dictionary.

In 2007 xobdo.org added multiple interfaces to include 16 more languages spoken in the North East India: Khasi, Dimasa, Bodo, Karbi, Nagamese, Garo, Ao, Mizo, Mishing, Tanii(Apatani),Monpa, Meitei-lon, Bishnupriya, Chakma, Kok-Borok, and Kuki aimed at giving a multilingual edge to the dictionary [3]. However, the database for these languages is still substantially small.



















Authorship and management

Database Architecture of xobdo.org

A group of volunteers are responsible for adding words at XOBDO database. As of now the website has two levels of volunteers: "contributors" and "editors". A contributor enters an English and its corresponding Assamese word to the temporary database. Afterwards an editor assigns a unique "idea ID" to the corresponding English and Assamese words and carries on other editing works, if required, to match the standards of XOBDO. After assigning the idea ID the words are added to the main database ready to be retrieved by a user[4].





Technical Details

Initially xobdo.org employed Microsoft server tools and technologies. It ran ASPs on Windows IIS and the primary database on RDBMS based on Microsoft SQL Server. However, in 2007it moved to open source technology and started running PHPs on Apache and an RDBMS on MySQL.

References

  1. ^ AT State
  2. ^ The Assam Tribune,Jun 14,2008
  3. ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/story/349364.html Indian Express, Aug 16, 2008
  4. ^ Xobdo:Policy
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