Kathabhidhana is an open toolkit for anyone to record their language in a human and machine readable form. It is a collection of open source tools, educational material, and open sample datasets. It not helps one to record their language but helps creating resources that can be used for building Machine Learning and Natural language Processing tools. Subhashish Panigrahi has personally recorded over 2000 words in his native language Odia. More about this toolkit are summarized in a quick video.

Presenters:

• Subhashish Panigrahi - Asia Community Catalyzer at Mozilla. Community builder, author, public speaker and Wikimedian.
• Prateek Pattanaik - Prateek is a high school student and a young researcher and archivist. He has been digitising some of the oldest and rarest texts of the Odia language, and growing the Odia Wikisource with public domain text with his digitisation project called 'Pothi'. He is also actively working towards building digital tools for language preservation