Template:All Projects/Year/2023
Contents
- 1 Regional Documentation - Trincomalee
- 2 Eelam Related Tamil's Documents in Tamilnadu India
- 3 Documentation of Indigenous People
- 4 Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2023
- 5 Endaged Archive programme 1551
- 6 Uthayan Library Collection
- 7 Documentation of Sri Lankan Muslim Ephemera
- 8 Evelyn Ratnam Library Documentation
- 9 Audio Books Project 2020
- 10 Women Archive
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.
- Interim Report
- Ongoing
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.
Endaged Archive programme 1551
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 |
This project aims to identify and digitize Ola Manuscripts in the Eastern and Northern provinces of Sri Lanka. It was created as part of Noolaham’s objective of documenting, digitizing, and disseminating knowledge bases associated with the Tamil-speaking communities
- 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.