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Contents
- 1 Mahajana College Documentation
- 2 Digital Preservation at Eastern University (2017 - 2018)
- 3 Survey and digitisation of individual manuscript collections in Northern Sri Lanka (Endangered Archives Programme 1056)
- 4 Multimedia Documentation of Traditional Trades and Crafts of Eastern, Northern and Up-Country Sri Lanka (Wikimedia Foundation)
- 5 Center for Oral History Research (2017 - 2022)
- 6 Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2017
Mahajana College Documentation
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0006 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2017 | |
| Stakeholders | Mahajana College, Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Documenting Tellipalai Mahajana College In 2013, Noolaham Foundation began to take efforts to record the histories of schools by documenting their publications. In general, schools in Eelam do have a tradition of preserving archives. Information pertaining to schools can be found in the annual reports, principal’s reports, publications by student clubs and alumni, jubilee year publications, etc. Even such publications are not properly preserved in schools. The ones that are preserved are not available to the larger public.This project, in 2013, documented the publications brought out by Royal College, Colombo and Jaffna Hindu College. In 2014, publications issued by Vembady Girls’ High School were documented. As continuation of this initiative, Tellipala Mahajana College is documented.
Digital Preservation at Eastern University (2017 - 2018)
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0005 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Eastern | Project Period | 2017 -2018 | |
| Stakeholders | Eastern University and Noolaham Foundation | |||||
In diversifying the activities conducted in line with the policies of Noolaham Foundation and in identifying creative objects that come from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, documenting materials originating from the Eastern Province is important. It is vital to invite the contribution of undergraduates, lecturers, experts and archivists to these initiatives.
Survey and digitisation of individual manuscript collections in Northern Sri Lanka (Endangered Archives Programme 1056)
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | British Archive | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Northern , SriLanka | Project Period | 2017 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Community Outreach & Dissemination Creating awareness about palm-leaf manuscripts, and the need for preservation, was one of the main aims of this project. Many people have only heard of manuscripts and have never seen them in real life, or even digitally. Thus, we held four community outreach events to engage the public in this project. The original intention of these events was to help identify custodians. Although these events did not help in identifying custodians directly, they helped in building rapport and awareness about the mission of the project. The most successful of these events was the Palm-leaf manuscripts exhibition held toward the end of the project. It was held over a three day period and over 400 people attended the exhibition, including students, custodians, librarians, and researchers. More than fifty people provided written feedback about the event, which was overwhelmingly positive. The event received wide media coverage, including via newspaper, television, radio and online media. As noted above, the palm-leaf manuscript reading workshop was also very successful.
Multimedia Documentation of Traditional Trades and Crafts of Eastern, Northern and Up-Country Sri Lanka (Wikimedia Foundation)
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Wikimedia Foundation | Project Owner | Natkeeran L Kanthan | |
| Project Mentor | Natkeeran L Kanthan | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2017 - 2020 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Tamil Wikipedia has played a pioneering venue for recording the knowledge base of the Tamil speaking communities and knowledge available in the Tamil language. We have been compiling various details about the Tamil speaking communities. However, there are obstacles to recording some important knowledge systems. These obstacles include lack of supplementary resources, lack of appropriate precedence, lack of internet connectivity and lack of committed users. One of the areas that has not receive adequate attention is traditional professional arts and crafts and knowledge bases associated with such arts and crafts. This project seeks document via multimedia platforms information pertaining to professional arts and crafts in practice in Jaffna, Malaiyaham and Batticaloa.
Center for Oral History Research (2017 - 2022)
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2017-2020 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This project was undertaken with the objective of introducing the Center for Oral History Research which is involved in multimedia documentation. The project also aimed to record oral histories, disseminating oral histories as a research method, training researchers in the field of oral histories.
Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2017
| Project Number | NF/PG/2017/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2017 January - 2017 December | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This project is undertaken annually by Noolaham Foundation. Digitizing material donated and lent by writers and those who collect documents, digitizing documents that are gathered under various initiatives, digitizing documents that are absent in the existent digitized collections, and adding multimedia documents are some of the tasks carried out under this project. Under this project 20, 000 documents were uploaded on Noolaham and Avanaham sites in 2017. The Avanaham site was inaugurated on the Thai Pongal day of 2017. The milestones achieved during this year include multimedia documentation initiatives conducted via Avanaham and documenting oral histories.
