Noolaham Technology Team

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

• Change Noolaham Subject portals to one look and feel using the templates (Status: 100% - Completed Feb 27, 2012)
• Look into ways to see if we can provide only read only access through flash or similar technologies. (Mar 3, 2012)
• Finalizing the “Noolaham Digitalization Preservation Standards” (Status: Under review by Sarveswaran and Gopi)
• Meta Data Web Application (Status: 80% Done)

• Pending feedback meeting on fields
• Provide suggestions with regards to the fields (Feb 28, 2012)

• Resource Access level finalization and implementation (Status: Need direction from the program team)
• Implement multilingual media wiki in one install (Status: Need to look into this further)
• Translate this page into Tamil
• Get a Backup Update (Status: Gopi please update)
• Chose a Project Management system manual or software (Need to be discussed)
• Connect with various contributors through skype

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)

• Digital Library Software Requirements Specifications

• 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