Template:All Projects/Year/2023

Regional Documentation - Trincomalee

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0001	Grant Agency / Donors	Ramanitharan Kandiah and Friends	Project Owner	Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor	Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
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.

• Interim Report

• Ongoing

Eelam Related Tamil's Documents in Tamilnadu India

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0002	Grant Agency / Donors	SAIVANERIKOODAM Thamilar Calari	Project Owner	Dr.Kanaga Sugumar
Project Mentor	Dr.Kanaga Sugumar	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims at identifying the documents on Sri Lanka published in India, as well as documents written by Eelam writers in India in the past.

• Interim Report
• Ongoing

Documentation of Indigenous People

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0003	Grant Agency / Donors	NCFP Foundation	Project Owner	Prashanth Srinivasan
Project Mentor	Balmforth Mark	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims to document undiscovered traditions and cultural movements of indigenous peoples with their permission in a contemporary manner without any alteration. Knowing their arts, traditional practices, and spontaneous lifestyles in harmony with nature and establishing new ways and approaches to anthropological and ethnographic perspectives and fields of study in Sri Lanka

• Full Report

Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2023

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0005	Grant Agency / Donors	British Library	Project Owner	Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor	Kopinath Thillainathan	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Traditional Sri Lankan fields of knowledge such as local history and medicine, astrology, astronomy, literature and mathematics have historically been recorded in palm leaf manuscripts. The purpose of this work is to identify them, properly digitized them and protect them and make them available to our Tamil community.

• Full Report

Endaged Archive programme 1551

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0005	Grant Agency / Donors	British Library	Project Owner	Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor	Kopinath Thillainathan	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims to identify and digitize Ola Manuscripts in the Eastern and Northern provinces of Sri Lanka. It was created as part of Noolaham’s objective of documenting, digitizing, and disseminating knowledge bases associated with the Tamil-speaking communities

• Ongoing

Uthayan Library Collection

Project Number	NF/PG/2023/0006	Grant Agency / Donors	Maithri Sabaratnam	Project Owner	Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor	Sujeevan Tharmalingam	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2023
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

The project intends to digitize the extensive collection of books, periodicals, and papers in the Uthayan Library. The Noolaham Foundation aims to make the library's knowledge available to everyone by digitizing the Uthayan Collection's valuable books and written materials.

• Ongoing