Completed Projects
Contents
- 1 2008
- 1.1 Digitization Project in Trincomalee
- 1.2 Digitization and Display of Monographs 2008-2009
- 1.3 Gnanam Digitization Project
- 1.4 Gnanam Digitization Project
- 1.5 Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project
- 1.6 Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project
- 1.7 Digitization Project in Colombo 2008-2009
- 2 2007
- 3 2006
- 4 2005
2008
Digitization Project in Trincomalee
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0005 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Mauran Muralitharan |
| Project Mentor | Mauran Muralitharan | Project Locations | Trincomalee and Colombo | Project Period | 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Vilvarajah Prashanthan, Sargunam Sathiyathevan, SDRO | ||||
The Digitization Project in Trincomalee was conducted by Noolaham Foundation during 2008 in Colombo and Trincomalee. It was implemented as a volunteer driven project to digitize a collection of print publications which were donated to Noolaham Foundation at Trincomalee by various well-wishers.
Through this project 102 books and magazines were digitized and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library atwww.noolaham.org. This collection of documents was gathered through NF’s volunteers. After digitization, those publications were either returned to the contributors or donated to libraries. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Tamil writers and publishers of Trincomalee.
Digitization and Display of Monographs 2008-2009
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2008 May - 2009 April |
| Stakeholders | Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | ||||
The Digitization and Display of Monographs 2008-2009 was conducted by Noolaham Foundation during 2008/09 in Colombo. The objective of the project was to digitize and display a series of books on the Noolaham Digital Library’s home page. It was part of Noolaham’s communication strategy of that period.
The project was implemented in two phases. During the first phase, a book was displayed each day for four months (May to August 2008) and during the second phase, a new book was displayed each week (September 2008 - April 2009). Through this project 155 various kinds of documents were digitized and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. After the digitization, those publications were either returned to the contributors or donated to libraries. This project was a successful initiative in introducing Noolaham digital library to users from diverse backgrounds.
Gnanam Digitization Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Gnanam Publishers |
The Gnanam Digitization Project is a collaborative project between Gnanam Publishers and Noolaham Foundation as part of Noolaham Foundation’s long term efforts to develop digital resources of contemporary magazines and make them freely accessible. This project extends the usefulness of the Tamils bibliographic and digitized assets by increasing access to this valuable information and provides an opportunity for institutions to select and contribute digitized information resources.
The first issue of Gnanam Magazine was published in June 2000 and it is published monthly. Gnanam issues contain poetry, creative essays, short stories, fiction, and political blogs and columns, as well as news about contemporary literary events and readers’ opinions. This magazine gives space to young innovative writers and their thoughts. Also Gnanam publishers brought out some collections of work by Sri Lankan writers. They have also been digitized by NF during this project.
Totally 91 monthly issues and 6 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. NF has created a special web portal to increase search ability. The magazines and books digitized date back to the 2000s. Noolaham Foundation has established plans to collect and digitize the future issues on a regular basis.
Gnanam Digitization Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Gnanam Publishers |
The Gnanam Digitization Project is a collaborative project between Gnanam Publishers and Noolaham Foundation as part of Noolaham Foundation’s long term efforts to develop digital resources of contemporary magazines and make them freely accessible. This project extends the usefulness of the Tamils bibliographic and digitized assets by increasing access to this valuable information and provides an opportunity for institutions to select and contribute digitized information resources.
The first issue of Gnanam Magazine was published in June 2000 and it is published monthly. Gnanam issues contain poetry, creative essays, short stories, fiction, and political blogs and columns, as well as news about contemporary literary events and readers’ opinions. This magazine gives space to young innovative writers and their thoughts. Also Gnanam publishers brought out some collections of work by Sri Lankan writers. They have also been digitized by NF during this project.
Totally 91 monthly issues and 6 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. NF has created a special web portal to increase search ability. The magazines and books digitized date back to the 2000s. Noolaham Foundation has established plans to collect and digitize the future issues on a regular basis.
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Local Magazine publishers |
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project The Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation in 2008 to digitize the current issues of contemporary Tamil magazines that focus on Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities. It was a collaborative project undertaken by Noolaham Foundation in coordination with various publishers. The project aimed at collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of printed magazines. The main objectives this project were to provide open access of contemporary magazines, preserve and create wide global visibility of the valuable information in these magazines. The project was implemented as a pilot project to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and effect size (statistical variability) prior to a full-scale project.
This project was successful in digitizing76 issues of 13 titles of periodicals. All of them are available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. The table of contents was manually inputted to enhance the search-ability of the content. The digitized magazine was also categorized at the digital library so that users could identify and access the issues easily.
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Local Magazine publishers |
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project The Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation in 2008 to digitize the current issues of contemporary Tamil magazines that focus on Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities. It was a collaborative project undertaken by Noolaham Foundation in coordination with various publishers. The project aimed at collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of printed magazines. The main objectives this project were to provide open access of contemporary magazines, preserve and create wide global visibility of the valuable information in these magazines. The project was implemented as a pilot project to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and effect size (statistical variability) prior to a full-scale project.
This project was successful in digitizing76 issues of 13 titles of periodicals. All of them are available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. The table of contents was manually inputted to enhance the search-ability of the content. The digitized magazine was also categorized at the digital library so that users could identify and access the issues easily.
Digitization Project in Colombo 2008-2009
| Project Number | NF/PG/2008/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2008 - 2009 February |
| Stakeholders | Kandiah Nagenthirapillai, Theepan Thevathasan, Sivaramakrishna Sarma, Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer | ||||
The Digitization Project in Colombo 2008-2009 was conducted by Noolaham Foundation during 2008 and early 2009 in Colombo. The objective of the project was to digitize a collection of print publications donated or loaned to Noolaham Foundation for digitization. Thus documents collected in Colombo and diasporic magazines sent by Pathmanaba Iyer were digitized through this project.
This project was implemented from January 2008 and to February 2009. Through this project 148 books and magazines, and 176 diaspora magazines were digitized in 2008 and another 245 documents were digitized in 2009. All 569 documents were made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and it received special appreciation from many Tamil writers and publishers.
2007
Digital Library CMS Project 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Mauran Muralitharan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 |
| Stakeholders | Mauran Muralitharan, volunteers of Noolaham | ||||
The Digital Library CMS Project 2007 was carried out by Noolaham Foundation to create an easily accessible Content Management System to host the Noolaham Digital Library. Prior to this project, Noolaham website was created by simple html links. MS Frontage html editor was used for this purpose. This site was inadequate to search the content. Even browsing as all the information had to be inputted manually.
During this project, initially Joomla CMS was installed and around 100 pages were created. But the testing was unsuccessful as the contributors struggled to understand the CMS. Thus Mediawiki software was tested and it was quite successful. The Tamil Wikipedia approach was used as a number of volunteers contributed towards the project.
Womens' Education and Research Centre Digitization Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 - 2008 | |
| Stakeholders | Dr. Selvi Thiruchandran, Mr. Mahesh Vairamuthu and Women's Education and Research Center (WERC) and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This Women’s' Education and Research Centre Digitization Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation and Women's Education and Research Center (WERC) in 2007 to digitize the publications of the WERC. It was the first collaborative project undertaken by Project Noolaham collective with another organization.
A total of 140 documents were digitized through this project and 132 of them were made available online through Noolaham digital library at www.noolaham.org. About 100 of the digitized publications were the publications of Women’s Education and Research Centre including books, magazines, newsletters and journals. This project increased the number of Tamil publications related to Women’s issues in Sri Lanka online, and thus contributed towards the mission of the Women’s' Education and Research Centre as well.
Digitization Project in Colombo 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 February – 2007 December |
| Stakeholders | Ganeshananthan Vajeeven, Thillainathan Kopinath, Thelivathai Josheph, Balasubramaniam Sivakumar, G. T. Ketharanathan, Sabanayagam Thillakan, Sivaraj, Sivagnanam Jeyashankar, Balasubramaniam Thuvaragan, Sellavel Lambotharan | ||||
The Digitization Project in Colombo 2007 was carried out by Noolaham Foundation during 2007 to increase the publications stored in Noolaham Digital Library. This project was an innovative implementation that used donated funds as well as volunteer resources to increase the efficiency of digitization initiatives. An incentive was provided to the volunteers to finish the project within the given timeframe.
A total of 1,117 documents were digitized through this project and 1,074 of them were made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project significantly increased the Noolaham Digital Library collection and enabled us to get a wider recognition among Tamil internet users and get more support and resources towards Noolaham Foundation.
Text Digitization Project in Colombo 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 |
| Stakeholders | Vettivel Jasikan, Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer, Thambiah Thevathas | ||||
The Text Digitization Project in Colombo 2007 was a digitization project which was initiated to convert physical books into machine readable formats. It was one of the first funded projects carried out by Noolaham Foundation. Prior such funded projects, most digitization tasks were done by volunteers and they did not progress quickly. Some volunteers who were participating in the activities of Noolaham Foundation proposed that they would like to make monetary contributions and a project should be coordinated to digitize books, as they would not find time, expertise and resources to type the books manually. Thus the funded projects were started.
A total of 44 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.
2006
Text Digitization Project in Jaffna 2006
| Project Number | NF/PG/2006/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Raththina Iyer Pathmanabha Iyer | Project Owner | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham |
| Project Mentor | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2006 |
| Stakeholders | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham |
Modeled on the Project Gutenberg approach, the Project Noolaham was started in 2005 with a view to creating a fully volunteer contributed online e-book library for the Tamil speaking communities. The Text Digitization Project in Jaffna 2006 was the first funded project initiated by Noolaham Foundation.
A total of 81 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.
2005
Marumalarchi Digitization Project
| 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.
