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Marumalarchi Digitization Project 2005-2008
| Project Number | NF/PG/2005/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2005 - 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Sinthuja Kopinath |
Marumalarchi Digitization Project was one of the pioneer and earlier digitization initiatives which contributed towards Project Noolaham which evolved into Noolaham Foundation. Modeled on the Project Gutenberg approach, the Project Noolaham was started in 2005 of with a view to creating a fully volunteer contributed online e-book library for the Tamil speaking communities. The Marumalarchi Digitization Project initiative was started in 2004 and ran all the way to 2008. At the beginning of this project, the documents were typed. Adding e-books during the early part of his project was quite slow, due to time constrains. Later scanning was introduced through this Project and it became the accepted digitization method at Noolaham Foundation.
A total of 219 (55 books typed and 164 books scanned) books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Sri Lankan Tamil writers and publishers.
