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Dear Friends,
I came across this interesting piece of news in CNET today (See full report
below):
"Djupedal was a professor and an expert on Ivar Aasen, an itinerant
Norwegian researcher who, in 1850, established a new language for Norway
that bridged all the country's dialects.
The New Norwegian, or Nynorsk, is spoken regularly by about 20 percent of
the country and is the main language in Western Norway, where nearly 25
percent of newspapers use it. The widely used Dano-Norwegian language, or
Bokmரூl, a written language based on Danish, makes up the other 80 percent,
according to the center."
My Question 1:
If Norway can achieve a new language that bridges all of the country's
dialects, could this be possible in the case of closely related languages
such as Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannadam?
My Question 2:
Just as in the case of Norwegian, is there a digital archive for Tamil
words anywhere that is continuously updated?
Thank you.
Regards,
Sathia,
KL, Malaysia.
Full CNET News:
Swedish programmer cracks password
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 10, 2002, 1:15 PM PT
A Swedish game programmer won the race to discover the password to a
Norwegian history museum's database, the museum's director said Monday. The
password had been lost when the database's steward died without revealing
it.
Ottar Grepstad, director of the Ivar Aasen Center for Language and Culture,
said in an interview that Joachim Eriksson, a programmer for Swedish game
company Snowcode, sent the correct password just five hours after the
museum's call for help. The center had posted the database file on its Web
site, asking for help in opening it.
"He used one hour to solve everything," Grepstad said. "It is a story with a
happy end."
Eriksson's e-mail--the first received by the center--not only had the
correct password, it also included the unencrypted files of the database.
Later submissions also had the correct password.
The database serves as a digital catalog to a collection of more than 11,000
books and manuscripts, and the password--"ladepujd"--turned out to be the
backward spelling of the last name of the researcher who assembled the
collection.
The center had publicly requested aid from security experts on the Web last
week after its employees were unable to open the digital catalog, obtained
from the family of Reidar Djupedal after his death in 1989. Djupedal was a
professor and an expert on Ivar Aasen, an itinerant Norwegian researcher
who, in 1850, established a new language for Norway that bridged all the
country's dialects.
The New Norwegian, or Nynorsk, is spoken regularly by about 20 percent of
the country and is the main language in Western Norway, where nearly 25
percent of newspapers use it. The widely used Dano-Norwegian language, or
Bokmரூl, a written language based on Danish, makes up the other 80 percent,
according to the center.
Nine years ago, an archivist transferred bibliographic information on 11,000
of Djupedal's 14,000 titles to a database created with DBase III and IV, but
the archivist died before the collection and the catalog reached the center,
taking the password with him and leaving the catalog inaccessible. Djupedal
himself had died earlier.
"We have no known information from (the archivist) which can help us solve
the problem," the center lamented on the Web site, calling for help from
anyone who could break the encryption on the database or find the password.
E-mail messages from more than 100 people began flooding the center on
Thursday afternoon after the organization's call for aid was picked up by
the media. The online request attracted a lot of attention and, reportedly,
even had some parapsychologists calling to offer aid.
Previously, the center had tried to get other Norwegian librarians to help,
and when that failed, hired professional computer technicians. "We tried
some expert help," said Grepstad, "but it turned out not to be so expert."
That's when the center hit upon the idea of using the Web. After posting the
encrypted database on its site, the center had more than 400,000 hits.
It's unknown how Eriksson retrieved the password--by decrypting the
database, using a flaw in the database's security to obtain access to the
data, or simply by guessing. Eriksson could not be immediately reached for
comment Monday.
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