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Regional Documentation - Trincomalee

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0001 Grant Agency / Donors Ramanitharan Kandiah and Friends Project Owner Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims on documenting, digitizing, preserving, and sharing documents and other sources related to the Trincomalee district, assisting in various educational and social studies related to the district. This project will provide encouragement to those engaged in research on Trincomalee and create an online system where they can easily access the main resources they need.

  • Ongoing

Eelam Related Tamil's Documents in Tamilnadu India

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0002 Grant Agency / Donors SAIVANERIKOODAM Thamilar Calari Project Owner Dr.Kanaga Sugumar
Project Mentor Dr.Kanaga Sugumar Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims at identifying the documents on Sri Lanka published in India, as well as documents written by Eelam writers in India in the past.

Documentation of Indigenous People

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0003 Grant Agency / Donors NCFP Foundation Project Owner Prashanth Srinivasan
Project Mentor Balmforth Mark Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims to document undiscovered traditions and cultural movements of indigenous peoples with their permission in a contemporary manner without any alteration. Knowing their arts, traditional practices, and spontaneous lifestyles in harmony with nature and establishing new ways and approaches to anthropological and ethnographic perspectives and fields of study in Sri Lanka

Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2023

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0005 Grant Agency / Donors British Library Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Kopinath Thillainathan Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Traditional Sri Lankan fields of knowledge such as local history and medicine, astrology, astronomy, literature and mathematics have historically been recorded in palm leaf manuscripts. The purpose of this work is to identify them, properly digitized them and protect them and make them available to our Tamil community.

Sri Lankan Tamil Palm-Leaf Manuscript Library (EAP1551)

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0005 Grant Agency / Donors British Library Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Kopinath Thillainathan Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Traditional Sri Lankan fields of knowledge such as local history and medicine, astrology, astronomy, literature and mathematics have historically been recorded in palm leaf manuscripts. The purpose of this work is to identify them, properly digitized them and protect them and make them available to our Tamil community.

  • Ongoing

Uthayan Library Collection

Project Number NF/PG/2023/0006 Grant Agency / Donors Maithri Sabaratnam Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Sujeevan Tharmalingam Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2023
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

The project intends to digitize the extensive collection of books, periodicals, and papers in the Uthayan Library. The Noolaham Foundation aims to make the library's knowledge available to everyone by digitizing the Uthayan Collection's valuable books and written materials.

  • Ongoing

Documentation of Sri Lankan Muslim Ephemera

Project Number NF/PG/2022/0004 Grant Agency / Donors University of Toronto Scarborough Libray Project Owner Mohamed Saakir Ibrahim
Project Mentor Thamilini Jothilingam Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2022
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project focuses to document and preserve ephemera which helps to identify the disappearing vernacular elements of the local Muslim communities in Sri Lanka. This would also help to locate and identify historical events, time periods, and biographies of key social, political, and literary figures and their works that are not otherwise archived.

Evelyn Ratnam Library Documentation

Project Number NF/GP/2020/0007 Grant Agency / Donors Ayothi Library Service Project Owner Kopinath Thillainathan
Project Mentor Kopinath Thillainathan Project Locations Jaffna Project Period 2020 July - 2021 August
Stakeholders Evelyn Ratnam Library, Staff of Noolaham Foundation

Evelyn Ratnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies is located in Jaffna. It was the late Dr. James D.Ratnam who established this Foundation in memory of Mr. Ratnam's late wife Evelyn Vijayaratne Ratnam. Dr. Ratnam had a collection of books and research papers they had collected through his contacts attached to various universities. Educationists, leading legal figures and businessmen who were researchers always went to him for advice and used his library. Dr. Ratnam later donated a collection of his books to Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai. He also set up a building in Jaffna to store books that can be used for research purposes. This building was named Evelyn Ratnam Library. It is currently under the governance of the Board of Directors of Jaffna College.Noolaham Foundation is committed to digitizing and preserving collections related to Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. In order to meet this objective, Noolaham Foundation is engaged in collecting documents found in libraries operating among Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and archiving and preserving documents collected by individuals belonging to these communities. As part of a series of archiving initiatives, efforts are being made to gather and preserve documents related to the history, politics, economy, culture, education, literature and art of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka found in the Evelyn Ratnam Library.

Audio Books Project 2020

Project Number NF/PG/2020/0002 Grant Agency / Donors Dr. Senthilkumaran, Natkeeran L Kanthan and Subakaran Balasubramaniam Project Owner Natkeeran L Kanthan
Project Mentor Natkeeran L Kanthan Project Locations Jaffna Project Period 2020
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This audio book project has been undertaken with the view to documenting via audio recording knowledge bases that can be accessed by differently abled members of the Tamil speaking communities.

Women Archive

Project Number NF/PG/2019/0002 Grant Agency / Donors London Tamil Women Organization / Oodaru Project Owner Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor Shaseevan Ganeshananthan Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2019 - 2021
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

The long-term objective of this project is to document the voices, stories, lifestyles, contributions, achievements and histories of the Tamil speaking women and the challenges they have faced. The project has the following goals. Identifying documents related to Tamil-speaking women from Sri Lanka, cataloguing them in line with the standards followed by Noolaham, preserving them as digitized entities, obtaining copyright permission for those documents and providing unlimited access to such resources. Documenting topics and areas that have not been covered in written documents as oral histories and life histories on multimedia platforms and providing assistance to such initiatives. Providing support to teaching, learning and research initiatives and activities driven by women with a focus on issues related Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking women. Sharing the obstacles faced, opportunities identified, experiences encountered and lessons learnt during documentation and archiving.

It is recommended to collect the documents for the women archive through Regional projects.