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

Sri Lankan Tamil Palm-Leaf Manuscript Library (EAP1551)

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.

• 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

Documentation of Sri Lankan Muslim Ephemera

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0004	Grant Agency / Donors	University of Toronto Scarborough Libray	Project Owner	Mohamed Saakir Ibrahim
Project Mentor	Thamilini Jothilingam	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project focuses to document and preserve ephemera which helps to identify the disappearing vernacular elements of the local Muslim communities in Sri Lanka. This would also help to locate and identify historical events, time periods, and biographies of key social, political, and literary figures and their works that are not otherwise archived.

• Full Report

Evelyn Ratnam Library Documentation

Project Number	NF/GP/2020/0007	Grant Agency / Donors	Ayothi Library Service	Project Owner	Kopinath Thillainathan
Project Mentor	Kopinath Thillainathan	Project Locations	Jaffna	Project Period	2020 July - 2021 August
Stakeholders	Evelyn Ratnam Library, Staff of Noolaham Foundation

Evelyn Ratnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies is located in Jaffna. It was the late Dr. James D.Ratnam who established this Foundation in memory of Mr. Ratnam's late wife Evelyn Vijayaratne Ratnam. Dr. Ratnam had a collection of books and research papers they had collected through his contacts attached to various universities. Educationists, leading legal figures and businessmen who were researchers always went to him for advice and used his library. Dr. Ratnam later donated a collection of his books to Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai. He also set up a building in Jaffna to store books that can be used for research purposes. This building was named Evelyn Ratnam Library. It is currently under the governance of the Board of Directors of Jaffna College.Noolaham Foundation is committed to digitizing and preserving collections related to Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. In order to meet this objective, Noolaham Foundation is engaged in collecting documents found in libraries operating among Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and archiving and preserving documents collected by individuals belonging to these communities. As part of a series of archiving initiatives, efforts are being made to gather and preserve documents related to the history, politics, economy, culture, education, literature and art of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka found in the Evelyn Ratnam Library.

• Full Report - 2021/2022

Audio Books Project 2020

Project Number	NF/PG/2020/0002	Grant Agency / Donors	Dr. Senthilkumaran, Natkeeran L Kanthan and Subakaran Balasubramaniam	Project Owner	Natkeeran L Kanthan
Project Mentor	Natkeeran L Kanthan	Project Locations	Jaffna	Project Period	2020
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This audio book project has been undertaken with the view to documenting via audio recording knowledge bases that can be accessed by differently abled members of the Tamil speaking communities.

• Full Report

Women Archive

Project Number	NF/PG/2019/0002	Grant Agency / Donors	London Tamil Women Organization / Oodaru	Project Owner	Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor	Shaseevan Ganeshananthan	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2019 - 2021
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

The long-term objective of this project is to document the voices, stories, lifestyles, contributions, achievements and histories of the Tamil speaking women and the challenges they have faced. The project has the following goals. Identifying documents related to Tamil-speaking women from Sri Lanka, cataloguing them in line with the standards followed by Noolaham, preserving them as digitized entities, obtaining copyright permission for those documents and providing unlimited access to such resources. Documenting topics and areas that have not been covered in written documents as oral histories and life histories on multimedia platforms and providing assistance to such initiatives. Providing support to teaching, learning and research initiatives and activities driven by women with a focus on issues related Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking women. Sharing the obstacles faced, opportunities identified, experiences encountered and lessons learnt during documentation and archiving.

It is recommended to collect the documents for the women archive through Regional projects.

• Full Report - 2019/2020/2021/2022