Template:Malaiyaham Archive Pilot Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2014/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Up-Country | Project Period | 2013 September - 2014 September | |
| Stakeholders | Radhika Thinakaran, Badulla Literary Circle and Up-Country Tamil speaking community, writers and publishers | |||||
The Malaiyaham Archive Pilot Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation during 2013 and 2014 to digitize and preserve the publications of the Malaiyaham Tamil speaking community. It was implemented as a special collection development project of the Noolaham Digital Library. Documentation and digitization of books and publications related to the Malaiyaham Tamil community was an objective of the project as well.
Through this project Noolaham Foundation has digitized 140 documents and made them available on its digital library at www.noolaham.org. The digitized publications include their culture, distinctive history, tradition, political context, religious practices, arts, stories, the schooling system, journals and novels. These documents are available for free access and could be downloaded in the user-friendly interface of Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library and most of the knowledge seekers and relevant stakeholders will have easy access to these services. A web portal named Noolaham:Malaiyaha_Avanakam (நூலகம்: மலையக ஆவணகம்) was also created. This portal will enable effective and speed searches of the required knowledge.
This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Malaiyaham Tamil writers and publishers. When new documents arrive from the Malaiyaham Tamil community, the documents will be digitized by Noolaham Foundation’s Malaiyaham representative in the future. It will be implemented as part of the Noolaham Foundation’s recurrent Collection Development Project.
