Xobdo.org
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 Screenshot of XOBDO's welcome page |
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| URL | http://xobdo.net/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Online Dictionary |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | 12 |
| Owner | An Online Community |
| Created by | Bikram M. Baruah |
Xobdo.org is the first online Assamese dictionary to become available online on March 10, 2006[1]. As of November 5, 2007 the database of this dictionary contains 9129 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, 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 10 more languages spoken in the North East India: Bishnupriya Manipuri, Bodo, Garo, Karbi, Khasi, Kok Borok, Meitei, Mising, Mizo and Monpa aimed at giving a multilingual edge to the dictionary. However, the database for these 10 languages is still substantially small.
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[edit] Authorship and management
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. [2]
