All Projects
Contents
- 1 2014
- 1.1 Improvement of e-Learning Facilities and Soft Skill to Children’s Home Students
- 1.2 Unwritten Laws and its influence on community and Human Rights in Jaffna
- 1.3 Documentation and Information Sharing of Community Medicine Resources
- 1.4 Sharing and Documenting Traditional and Religious Norms of Sri Lankan Tamil Communities
- 1.5 Malaiyaham Archive Pilot Project
- 1.6 Sri Lankan Tamil Who is Who: A Pilot Project
- 1.7 Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2014
- 1.8 Osai: Jaffna Vembadi Girls' High School Digitization
- 2 2013
- 2.1 Initiation of Moodle for Sri Lankan Tamil Speaking Students
- 2.2 Tamil Optical Character Recognition Support Project
- 2.3 Republishing of Rare and Endangered documents
- 2.4 Aaram: Jaffna Hindu College Digitization
- 2.5 Tamil Documentation Conference 2013
- 2.6 Vethiyar Thamilavanam: Colombo Royal College Digitization
- 2.7 Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2013
- 3 2012
- 3.1 Manuscripts Archive Jaffna Public Libray 2013
- 3.2 Muslim Archive Pilot Project
- 3.3 Digitizing Publication for Online Access
- 3.4 Manuscripts Archive Chunnakam Public Library 2012
- 3.5 Digital Library for School Students Pilot Project
- 3.6 Manuscripts Archive Pilot Project 2012
- 3.7 Documentation and Archiving of Rare Endangered Documents
- 4 2011
- 4.1 Digital Documentation Discussion Series 2011
- 4.2 Digitization Workshops for Library Science Students
- 4.3 Digitization Project hosted by Jaffna Public Library 2011-2012
- 4.4 Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Tamil Newspapers
- 4.5 Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines
- 4.6 Organizational Datasets Pilot Project
- 5 2010
- 6 2009
- 7 2008
- 8 2007
- 9 2006
- 10 2005
2014
Improvement of e-Learning Facilities and Soft Skill to Children’s Home Students
Unwritten Laws and its influence on community and Human Rights in Jaffna
Documentation and Information Sharing of Community Medicine Resources
Sharing and Documenting Traditional and Religious Norms of Sri Lankan Tamil Communities
Malaiyaham Archive Pilot Project
Sri Lankan Tamil Who is Who: A Pilot Project
Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2014
Osai: Jaffna Vembadi Girls' High School Digitization
2013
Initiation of Moodle for Sri Lankan Tamil Speaking Students
Tamil Optical Character Recognition Support Project
Republishing of Rare and Endangered documents
Aaram: Jaffna Hindu College Digitization
Tamil Documentation Conference 2013
Vethiyar Thamilavanam: Colombo Royal College Digitization
Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2013
2012
Manuscripts Archive Jaffna Public Libray 2013
Muslim Archive Pilot Project
Digitizing Publication for Online Access
Manuscripts Archive Chunnakam Public Library 2012
Digital Library for School Students Pilot Project
Manuscripts Archive Pilot Project 2012
Documentation and Archiving of Rare Endangered Documents
| Project Number | NF/PG/2012/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | US Department of State | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2012 - 2013 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
The main goal of the Documentation and Archiving of Rare Endangered Documents Project was to document and digitize rare and endangered documents related to the Tamil speaking communities of Sri Lanka. Two workshops were conducted to introduce the importance of documentation and archiving and to provide digitizing training; moreover, sustaining a volunteer pool to carry out future activities was also planned as part of this project. It was funded by the US Department of State
Through this project 660 rare and endangered documents were digitized and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library (www.noolaham.org) to the Tamil speaking communities of the entire world. Further, two workshops were conducted by Noolaham Foundation about the importance of documentation and archiving. The project also provided digitizing training to volunteers and other stakeholders as well. During the project period a sustainable volunteer pool was built to carry out future projects. Noolaham Foundation is happy to report that all project goals had been achieved and more projects have been initiated.
Digital libraries are significant as they lower the bar for participation by information producers and collectors. It democratizes the generation and distribution of information. Thus this project supported by US Embassy has enabled Noolaham Foundation to preserve and revitalize culture and knowledge. In a long term perspective, the outcomes of this project will contribute immensely towards fostering knowledge-based development in Sri Lanka.
2011
Digital Documentation Discussion Series 2011
Digitization Workshops for Library Science Students
Digitization Project hosted by Jaffna Public Library 2011-2012
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Tamil Newspapers
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines
Organizational Datasets Pilot Project
2010
International Center for Ethnic Studies Digitization
| Project Number | NF/PG/2010/0005 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2010 | |
| Stakeholders | International Center for Ethnic Studies Ponnudurai Thambirajah – Chief Librarian ICES | |||||
The International Center for Ethnic Studies Digitization Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation and International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo in 2010 to digitize the publications of the ICES. It was a collaborative project undertaken by Noolaham Foundation collective with another organization.
Through this project 137 documents were digitized and were made them available on Noolaham Foundation’s digital library at www.noolaham.org. The digitized publications include books, research papers, working papers, lectures handouts, monographs, reports, magazines, periodical newsletters and journals. This project increased online information sources on civil society, human rights, post war and land issues, history of conflict, capacity-buildings, current socio – political and economical configuration and contributed towards the mission of International Center for Ethnic Studies as well.
Thinamurasu Digitization Project
Sarinihar Digitization Project
Puthiya Poomi Digitization Project
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Tamil Newspapers Pilot Project
2009
Tamil Times Digitization Project
Digitization Project hosted by Colombo Tamil Sangam Library
| Project Number | NF/PG/2009/0001 | 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 Colombo Tamil Sangam contributes towards the betterment of the Tamil language, culture and arts. It was established in 1942. It operates a library with more than 45,000 books and magazines. A special purpose reference section aiming to preserve Sri Lankan Tamil related documents is functioning as part of that library. The goals of the Digitization Project hosted by the Colombo Tamil Sangam Library Project were to document and archive the Sri Lankan collection of the Colombo Tamil Sangam Library.
Totally 2,950 valuable books and magazines were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org.
2008
Digitization Project in Trincomalee
Digitization and Display of Monographs 2008-2009
Gnanam Digitization Project
Digitization and Dissemination of Contemporary Magazines Pilot Project
Digitization Project in Colombo 2008-2009
2007
Digital Library CMS Project 2007
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
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 2005-2008
| 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.
