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The Noolaham Foundation programs are primarily aimed at developing Tamil Digital Libraries in various subject areas and in
 
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building capacity in communities realted to information literacy. Activities related to programs are managed by Program Team.
 
  
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All information content created by the Foundation are licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] meaning that all content for which the Foundation owns the copyright may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license.
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==Print Publications Archive==
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The Publications Archive Program digitizes all print documents which are related to Sri Lankan Tamil communities. The printed documents include Books, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters, Booklets, Reports, Souvenirs and Felicitations, Annual Publications, Posters, Flyers and Leaflets, Fact sheets, Invitations, Memorial Publications, Dissertations, Ephemera, Trade and Advertising Publications, and Guides and handbooks. By December 2012, Noolaham has documented 12,108 publications.
  
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==Noolaham Digital Library==
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==Manuscripts Archive==
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Digital libraries make possible enhanced access to information, being as they are available to anybody in any part of the  world at any given time. The primary objective of the Noolaham Foundation is to maintain online digital library sans access restrictions.  
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This program digitizes all kinds of hand written documents such as palm leaves, notebooks, letters, diaries and other hand written manuscripts. Most of these materials are unique and fragile. They need special handling and equipment to be digitized.
  
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'''[http://www.noolaham.org Noolaham Digital Library]''' indexes various digitized collections accessible online. The Foundation hosts only a part of the e-books collection linked at the digital library, thus making it a virtual collection. Wiki pages for documents from each collection are categorized under their relevant categories. e-books which are online, but not part of any specific collection, are organized into one category.
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==Digital Library==
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The Digital Library program facilitates information access by users by by maintaining the information architecture of the archived information resources. Please visit www.noolaham.org to use this digital library.
  
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This digital library serves as a learning center where local knowledge is incorporated; enables social interaction for the achievement of constructive social outcomes, and supports cognitive work of scholars and research students.
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==Collection Development==
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This program focuses on creating critical mass of collections so that they can be used by students, researchers and general public to fulfill their information needs effectively. Currently 4 special collections and 2 ongoin collections are being developed by the Foundation.
  
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It should also  be noted that it is a free and transparent site and it does not have any access restrictions or subscription requirements. And it can be accessed in Tamil and English.
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==Multimedia Archives==
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This program collects and archive images, maps, video files and audio files. This program is in its initiation stage and the first phase, the Photo archive, is being developed and is expected to be online by June 2013.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Ithazhaham]: Ithazhaham is a project carried out by the Foundation to release online versions of current magazines within a short period from their publication date. This project will be implemented in collaboration with publishers of various magazines. At the beginning all new releases of the selected magazines will be released. Later back issues which are not in digital format will be scanned and archived.
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88 Vaasihasaalai]: Vaasihasaalai is a project carried out by the Foundation to digitise and archive newspapers. This project is implemented in collaboration with publishers of various newspapers. And Sari Nihar, Nihari, Thina Murasu, Thinak Kathir, Thisai and Puthiya Poomi are some of the newspapers archived/being archived so far. Newspapers are important source documents for researchers and historians. But back issues of newspapers are not easily accessible as only a few libraries and other institutions archive them. Digitizing and making them available online enhances the accessibility. Thus the Foundation operates a separate program focusing on digitizing newspapers. Currently, the biggest size we are able to digitize is A3. Because of that, we have not started to digitize newspapers of bigger sizes.
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==Virtual Learning Environments ==
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This is yet another ambitious program of Noolaham Foundation. This program will create comprehensive virtual learning enviornments for school and university students. This program will be implemented in 5 phases and currently the first phase, creation of a digital library for students, is being carried out.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Muslim Archive]: The Tamil speaking Muslim community in Sri Lanka has a unique way of life, history, culture, and religion. A large part of Tamil literature in Sri Lanka has be created by and about Muslims.  The current priority of the Muslim Archive is to collect, catalog and share published books and articles. The next step is to collect images, audio, video and to develop a comprehensive archive.
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==Reference Collections==
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Noolaham aims to collect information and create in depth details about people, places, organizations and information sources. This program will be the backbone of the information architecture needed for all other programs and will become a useful reference tool. Currently information about organizations are being collected.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%95_%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Upcountry Archive] : The objective Noolaham Upcountry Archive is to collect, catalog, and share works by and about the Upcountry Tamils.  Upcountry Tamils contribution to the Sri Lankan Tamil literature has grown significantly in recent times.  The text documents, the oral history and literature, culture, arts, handicrafts, and literature needs to be documented.  A multimedia approach (text, images, video, audio) is necessary to amaze a comprehensive collection.
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==Conferences and Symposiums==
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Conferences and Symposiums are organized to encourage inter-disciplinary research that would offer an opportunity to scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, linguistics and literary studies to draw insights from each other’s discipline in order to enhance their own research. The first project of this program TDC 2013 will be held in April 2013.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Dalit Archive]: The Dalit literature movement is a major stream in modern Tamil literature. The aim is to collect information regarding the Dalits struggle for human rights, culture, arts, and handicrafts. The long term vision is to create a comprehensive multimedia (text, images, audio, video) archive.
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==Noolaham Events==
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Noolaham Events program focus on building volunteer communities and educating wider public on various issues including Information Literacy, Digital Library usage and digital preservation. Lectures, seminars, workshops and exhibitions will be conducted through this program. Since 2010, this program is being implemented.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Women Archive]: The objective of the Women Feminist Archive is to collect, catalog, and share Sri Lankan Tamil sources about feminism, women rights and women. This collection was initiated with the support of Womens' Education and Research Centre. The long term vision is to create a comprehensive encyclopedia (including articles, books, images, audio, video) of Tamil speaking women in Sri Lanka.
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==Publications==
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Noolaham Foundation publishes books, newsletters, magazine and journal. This program is a part of the outreach strategy of the Foundation and contributes towards awareness raising and documentation as well. The first issue of Noolaham journal will be released in April 2013. Please visit [[Publications]] page to access past publications.
  
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D  Valai Peddaham] : Internet has been widely used among Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities for last 20 years. Tamil diaspora have decided to use Internet to express their opinions easily. Since they lived in various countries who speak various languages, it influenced them to write in those languages. At the same time, next generation of Tamil diaspora was forced to speak various languages as their mother tongue and they write about their life status and community back ground in various languages. Because of this, there are many websites related to Tamil in various languages now. Those websites are running continuously. Currently, there are thousands of Tamil websites with Tamil blogs which was introduced later. Noolaham Valaipeddakam program is to categorize these Tamil websites and blogs and displays in the single website based on languages, sectors and various classifications.  At the same time, they consistently documented as much as possible. Tamil speaking community has experienced that, there are many websites related to Tamil were lost with all the data and badly missed important information. To avoid these circumstances there is a plan to document the Tamil related websites under discussion as part of Noolaham Valaipeddakam program.
 
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* [http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D Tharavuthalankal] : Creating online database - organized collection - for tamil speaking communities related elements in varieos social levels. Tamil libraries (Town counsil libraries, Pradesa saba libraries, Private libraries, Reading rooms) , Educational organizations (Universities, Technical colleges, National college of Education, Schools ) , Publishers (News papers, Magazines, Publishing houses and Writers) , Places of worship (Hindu temples, Christian churches, Mosgues, Religious Organizations) , Other Social organizations (Political parties, Activist organizations, Villege level organizations, Sports clubs, Non - government organizations) are include the database. Northern province (Jaffna, vavuniya, mannar, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi) , Eastern province (Trincomalle, Batticallo, Ampara) , Central Province (Kandy, Mattale, Kekala, Baddulla, Nuvareliya) , Other provinces (Colombo, Purttalam) Districts are tamil speaking communities living mostly. Database mainly incldes these districts related Information.In out of Srilanka, European Countries (England, Ireland, Swissland, Netherland, Germany, France, Italy) , Scandinavian Countries (Norway, Sweedon, Finland, Denmark) , North Americal countries (United states of America, Canada) , Australian counties (Australia, Newsland) , East Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia) , Middle East countries and India are identified srilankan tamil speaking communities related countries.
 
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Revision as of 10:42, 3 February 2013


Print Publications Archive

The Publications Archive Program digitizes all print documents which are related to Sri Lankan Tamil communities. The printed documents include Books, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters, Booklets, Reports, Souvenirs and Felicitations, Annual Publications, Posters, Flyers and Leaflets, Fact sheets, Invitations, Memorial Publications, Dissertations, Ephemera, Trade and Advertising Publications, and Guides and handbooks. By December 2012, Noolaham has documented 12,108 publications.

Manuscripts Archive

This program digitizes all kinds of hand written documents such as palm leaves, notebooks, letters, diaries and other hand written manuscripts. Most of these materials are unique and fragile. They need special handling and equipment to be digitized.

Digital Library

The Digital Library program facilitates information access by users by by maintaining the information architecture of the archived information resources. Please visit www.noolaham.org to use this digital library.

Collection Development

This program focuses on creating critical mass of collections so that they can be used by students, researchers and general public to fulfill their information needs effectively. Currently 4 special collections and 2 ongoin collections are being developed by the Foundation.

Multimedia Archives

This program collects and archive images, maps, video files and audio files. This program is in its initiation stage and the first phase, the Photo archive, is being developed and is expected to be online by June 2013.

Virtual Learning Environments

This is yet another ambitious program of Noolaham Foundation. This program will create comprehensive virtual learning enviornments for school and university students. This program will be implemented in 5 phases and currently the first phase, creation of a digital library for students, is being carried out.

Reference Collections

Noolaham aims to collect information and create in depth details about people, places, organizations and information sources. This program will be the backbone of the information architecture needed for all other programs and will become a useful reference tool. Currently information about organizations are being collected.

Conferences and Symposiums

Conferences and Symposiums are organized to encourage inter-disciplinary research that would offer an opportunity to scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, linguistics and literary studies to draw insights from each other’s discipline in order to enhance their own research. The first project of this program TDC 2013 will be held in April 2013.

Noolaham Events

Noolaham Events program focus on building volunteer communities and educating wider public on various issues including Information Literacy, Digital Library usage and digital preservation. Lectures, seminars, workshops and exhibitions will be conducted through this program. Since 2010, this program is being implemented.

Publications

Noolaham Foundation publishes books, newsletters, magazine and journal. This program is a part of the outreach strategy of the Foundation and contributes towards awareness raising and documentation as well. The first issue of Noolaham journal will be released in April 2013. Please visit Publications page to access past publications.

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