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

• 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)

• 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