All Projects/Year/2024
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Documentation of Inscriptions
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | British Library | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This project aims on documenting, digitizing, preserving, and sharing documents and other sources related to the Trincomalee district, assisting in various educational and social studies related to the district. This project will provide encouragement to those engaged in research on Trincomalee and create an online system where they can easily access the main resources they need.
- Ongoing
History of Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Prof . Sreeharan , International Medical Health Organization (IMHO) | Project Owner | Noolaham Foundation | |
| Project Mentor | Dr.Sugumar | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This project assists to expose the importance and value of the history of Medicine Collection to society. Generally, people do not know the importance of history in their culture and life. This project will provide great awareness about Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka and will document the major players. events and ideas that played a role in the evolution of the healthcare services in Northern Sri Lanka.
- Ongoing
Regional Documentation - Ampara
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | University of Toronto Scarborough Libray | Project Owner | Noolaham Foundation | |
| Project Mentor | Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Ampara is located 320 km from Colombo. Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims live in the city. Ampara district has four parliamentary constituencies namely Kalmunai, Sammanthurai, Pottuvil and Ampara. Ampara district is located along the Urogana region. After the tenth century, some of the tribes that inhabited the coast of the present Ampara district played an important role in the administration of the Batticaloa region. Today's Sammanthurai was the capital of the then Batticaloa region. Thirukovil Murugan Temple was one of the famous temples in the East.
- Ongoing
Digitization of Human rights Collection
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | Memory of Chelvarani Nadarajah | Project Owner | Thamilini Jothilingam | |
| Project Mentor | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | ||
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Sri Lanka is a country that has a history of thirty years of civil war. The country has seen horrendous human rights violations throughout its history. Many books and articles have been written regarding human rights and the situations in which these fundamental rights are violated and result in unthinkable tragedies. These need to be digitalized since they will highlight the mistakes we made as a society and advise us on what to do in similar situations.
- Ongoing
Digitization of Panchangam
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | British Library | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Documenting Panchangams (two types - Trikanitham, Vakyam) is important in the existence of ritual and culture of a society. Panchangams are not only helpful in Hindu formal life matters. These are seen to include scientific subjects such as astronomy, mathematics and planetary positions. Based on them, it will be possible to learn how panchangams influence Sri Lankan Tamil culture, Tamil lifestyle and social issues by documenting panchangams through this project.
- Ongoing
Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2024
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0006 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Noolaham Foundation | |
| Project Mentor | Pathmanaba Iyer Rathina Iyer | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This is an annual project undertaken by Noolaham Foundation. Under this project, documents lent and gifted to Noolaham by writers and collectors of documents, documents gathered via the various projects conducted by Noolaham, documents that were left out during previous projects conducted by Noolaham and documents that need to be added to the existing collections and multimedia documents are documented in 2024.
- Ongoing
Slave Registry
| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0007 | Grant Agency / Donors | University of Toronto | Project Owner | Balmforth Mark | |
| Project Mentor | Balmforth Mark | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Between 1818 and 1832, British colonial officials recorded the names of more than 20,000 enslaved people living on the island of Ceylon, the vast majority of whom would be considered Tamil today. The Legacies of Tamil Slavery Working Group seeks to transcribe this registry, work toward its eventual public display, and to think collaboratively with descendants of the enslaved about an interactive public resource with which to teach about Sri Lanka’s history of enslavement.
- Ongoing
