Template:Vethiyar Thamilavanam: Colombo Royal College Digitization
| Project Number | NF/PG/2013/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust | Project Owner | Seran Sivananthamoorthy | |
| Project Mentor | Seran Sivananthamoorthy | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2013 | |
| Stakeholders | Students of Royal College Tamil Debate Council, Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation and Royal College, Colombo | |||||
The ‘Vethiyar Thamilavanam: Colombo Royal College Digitization’ project aimed at collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the published documents of Royal College, Colombo and its Tamil community. The main objectives this project was to provide open access of institution’s printed collection, preserve and create wide global visibility of historical documents of Royal College in order to make it much easier for students and others who are interested in learning the college history.
Noolaham foundation has digitized 92 documents and made required facilities for readers to view these digitized publications online at www.noolaham.org and shared offline digital resources in a DVD named ‘Veththiyar Thamizhavanam 2013’ which was released at Royal College Union Skill Centre on 31 March, 2013. Royal College Tamil Debaters’ Council was involved in collecting these publications released by the Tamil societies and Associations of their college.
This collection includes magazines, newsletters, booklets, reports, souvenirs and felicitation publications, annual publications, leaflets and memorial publications published from 1964 to 2012.
