News/2012/2012.05.24
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The Endangered Archive Programme (EAP) is a program organized by the British Library to contribute to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The British Library, supported by Arcadia, supports various projects world wide.
Constituting a Digital Archive of Tamil Agrarian History, an EAP project is being implemented based at French Institute of Pondicherry. The French Institute of Pondicherry and Eap 458 team had agreed to provide Noolaham Foundation volunteers training and guidance in the areas of documentation and preservation.
Sivananthamoorthy Seran of Noolaham Foundation travelled to India, stayed with the EAP 458 team for a week. This training program lasted for a week and Seran was trained in documentation by photography, digitization and preservation. Dr. M. Kannan, Dr. Zoe Headley and Mr. Ponnarasu enabled this program and Dr. Ganesan, Rameshkumar, V. Krishnamoorthy, P.Chandran and V. Muthukumar provided the training.
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