Noolaham Technology Team

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The Noolaham Foundation Technology Team is responsible for the strategic technology planning and infrastructure implementation for all of Noolaham's operations. Documentation/data collection, scanning, online library, project management and co-ordination all require cost effective software and hardware infrastructure and support.

Members

  • Natkeeran L.K (Software Developer)
  • Vinodth Rajan(Software Developer)
  • Sundar (Information extraction specialist; perl hacker)
  • Sarveswaran K (Lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna; Open source contributor)
  • Nimalaprakasan Skandhakumar (PhD student at Queensland University of Technology; Information security)
  • Uthayasanker Thayasivam (PhD student at University of Georgia; Semantic web)
  • K.Sureshkumar (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Saravanaperumal Paranetharan (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Balachandran Sanjith (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Kanagasabai Erlilverl (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

Current Projects/To DOs

  • Update Mediawiki software - T13 [ R:Natkeeran ]
  • Meta Data Application - T2 [ R:Natkeeran, Testing:Kopinath, Shaseevan, Suresh ]
  • 'Noolaham Technology Team', 'Technology' Combine this two pages - T9 [ R:Natkeeran ]
  • Preservation Standards Document - T3 [ R:Vinodh Rajan, H:Natkeeran ]
  • 'Technology Team' Coordination - T5 [ R:Natkeeran, H:Shaseevan ]


On Hold

  • Chose a Project Management system manual or software (Need to be discussed)
  • Implement multilingual media wiki in one install (Status: Need to look into this further)

Completed

  • Change Noolaham Subject portals to one look and feel using the templates (Status: 100% - Completed Feb 27, 2012)

Recurring Activities

  • Maintenance of the noolaham.org mediawiki websites (hosting, upgrades, backups)
  • Maintainanace noolahamfoundation.org website
  • Managing various domains
  • Mediawiki portals/template clean up

Major Upcoming Projects

  • Implementing a scheduled remote backup system
  • Implementing a project management / resource management software
  • Transition from Mediawiki to a Multimedia Digital Library Software (High priority)
  • Implementing dataset management software (maybe as part of the above)
  • Implementing user generated/managed resource management software (maybe as part digital library software)
  • Implementing semi or fully automated scanners and scanning processes (High priority)
  • Building a self-hosting server infrastructure (Long term)
  • Research