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Caste, land, and labour in Jaffna: a survey and digitization project in Sri Lankan agrarian history (EAP 1450)

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0006	Grant Agency / Donors	British Library	Project Owner	Kopinath Thillainathan
Project Mentor	Balmforth Mark	Project Locations	Jaffna	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This 12-month pilot project will survey and digitize privately held records relating to caste, land ownership, and agricultural labour in Sri Lanka's Jaffna Peninsula, created prior to the island's independence in 1948. The survey seeks manuscript (paper and palm leaf) and printed material relating to the management and ownership of land, labour contracts, and agricultural records. Digitisation will commence with the manuscript collection of William Digby (1849–1904), a late-nineteenth century British author and political organizer who was a vociferous advocate for the reform of British policy in India and intervention in South Asian agrarian poverty.

• Ongoing

Next-generation AI-based Ecosystem for Noolaham

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0005	Grant Agency / Donors	Noolaham Foundation	Project Owner	Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor	Prashanth Sirinivasan	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims to complete a plan for the project on large scale annotation, storage and analysis of Sri Lankan Tamil content. This is relating to the field of semantic culturomics in which researchers data mine large digital archives to investigate cultural phenomena reflected in language and word usage. The project consists of a language pre-processing layer, language resource layer, processing resource layer and finally a knowledge engineering component which all forms an AI-based ecosystem for analysing Noolaham foundation’s content. The plan would consist of creating detailed proposals for a number of sub-projects involved in each of these layers.

• Interim Report

• 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

Digitization at Jaffna Public Library 2022

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0003	Grant Agency / Donors	Manitha Neyam Trust	Project Owner	Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor	Thayanthan Thirunavukkarasu	Project Locations	Jaffna	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Noolaham Foundation has already documented some documents from Jaffna Public Library in the past. This project aims to document all the magazines and newspapers available in Jaffna Public library which have not yet been digitized with the intention of long term preservation and usage.

• Interim Report
• Ongoing

Digital Library Metadata Enrichment 2022

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0002	Grant Agency / Donors	Kopinath Thillainathan	Project Owner	Kopinath Thillainathan
Project Mentor	Kopinath Thillainathan	Project Locations	Jaffna	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Noolaham Foundation is in the process of documenting the documents of the Tamil speaking communities through various projects. Its work program focuses on the collection of documents specifically related to documentation-based Tamil-speaking communities. Since its development and digitization, it has compiled a total of 108000 documents since 2005 and has reviewed them, and relied on existing testimonial tools to validate and provide evidence-based metadata for classification-based accessibility. . Realizing the need for this, two metadata Officers will carry out the project after receiving training for metadata Entries.

• Full Report

Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2022

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0001	Grant Agency / Donors	Noolaham Foundation	Project Owner	Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor	Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer	Project Locations	SriLanka	Project Period	2022
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 2022.

• Full Report

Tamil Queer Archives

Project Number	NF/PG/2022/0007	Grant Agency / Donors	Community Welfare and Development Fund	Project Owner	Thamilini Jothilingam
Project Mentor	Thamilini Jothilingam	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2022
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

These social groups that adhere to different attitudes and practices than the general conditions regarding gender identity expression can be generally called Queer social groups. The project will be launched with the aim of documenting literary and non-literary artistic issues related to Queer social groups that are subjected to various forms of oppression and discrimination in the society. This project aims to help research related to Queer community groups in the future, improve their awareness and create social recognition for them through documentation.

• On hold