Completed Projects
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2005
Marumalarchi Digitization Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2005/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Colombo and Jaffna | Project Period | 2005 - 2008 |
| Stakeholders | Sinthuja Kopinath |
Marumalarchi Digitization Project was one of the pioneer and earlier digitization initiatives which contributed towards Project Noolaham which evolved into Noolaham Foundation. Modeled on the Project Gutenberg approach, the Project Noolaham was started in 2005 of with a view to creating a fully volunteer contributed online e-book library for the Tamil speaking communities. The Marumalarchi Digitization Project initiative was started in 2004 and ran all the way to 2008. At the beginning of this project, the documents were typed. Adding e-books during the early part of his project was quite slow, due to time constrains. Later scanning was introduced through this Project and it became the accepted digitization method at Noolaham Foundation.
A total of 219 (55 books typed and 164 books scanned) books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Sri Lankan Tamil writers and publishers.
2006
Text Digitization Project in Jaffna 2006
| Project Number | NF/PG/2006/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Raththina Iyer Pathmanabha Iyer | Project Owner | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham |
| Project Mentor | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2006 |
| Stakeholders | Srikanthaluxmy Arulanantham |
Modeled on the Project Gutenberg approach, the Project Noolaham was started in 2005 with a view to creating a fully volunteer contributed online e-book library for the Tamil speaking communities. The Text Digitization Project in Jaffna 2006 was the first funded project initiated by Noolaham Foundation.
A total of 81 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library: www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Sri Lankan Tamil writers and publishers.
2007
Digital Library CMS Project 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0004 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Mauran Muralitharan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 |
| Stakeholders | Mauran Muralitharan, volunteers of Noolaham | ||||
The Digital Library CMS Project 2007 was carried out by Noolaham Foundation to create an easily accessible Content Management System to host the Noolaham Digital Library. Prior to this project, Noolaham website was created by simple html links. MS Frontage html editor was used for this purpose. This site was inadequate to search the content. Even browsing as all the information had to be inputted manually.
During this project, initially Joomla CMS was installed and around 100 pages were created. But the testing was unsuccessful as the contributors struggled to understand the CMS. Thus Mediawiki software was tested and it was quite successful. The Tamil Wikipedia approach was used as a number of volunteers contributed towards the project.
Womens' Education and Research Centre Digitization Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 - 2008 | |
| Stakeholders | Dr. Selvi Thiruchandran, Mr. Mahesh Vairamuthu and Women's Education and Research Center (WERC) and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
This Women’s' Education and Research Centre Digitization Project was carried out by Noolaham Foundation and Women's Education and Research Center (WERC) in 2007 to digitize the publications of the WERC. It was the first collaborative project undertaken by Project Noolaham collective with another organization.
A total of 140 documents were digitized through this project and 132 of them were made available online through Noolaham digital library at www.noolaham.org. About 100 of the digitized publications were the publications of Women’s Education and Research Centre including books, magazines, newsletters and journals. This project increased the number of Tamil publications related to Women’s issues in Sri Lanka online, and thus contributed towards the mission of the Women’s' Education and Research Centre as well.
Digitization Project in Colombo 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0002 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan |
| Project Mentor | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 February – 2007 December |
| Stakeholders | Ganeshananthan Vajeeven, Thillainathan Kopinath, Thelivathai Josheph, Balasubramaniam Sivakumar, G. T. Ketharanathan, Sabanayagam Thillakan, Sivaraj, Sivagnanam Jeyashankar, Balasubramaniam Thuvaragan, Sellavel Lambotharan | ||||
The Digitization Project in Colombo 2007 was carried out by Noolaham Foundation during 2007 to increase the publications stored in Noolaham Digital Library. This project was an innovative implementation that used donated funds as well as volunteer resources to increase the efficiency of digitization initiatives. An incentive was provided to the volunteers to finish the project within the given timeframe.
A total of 1,117 documents were digitized through this project and 1,074 of them were made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project significantly increased the Noolaham Digital Library collection and enabled us to get a wider recognition among Tamil internet users and get more support and resources towards Noolaham Foundation.
Text Digitization Project in Colombo 2007
| Project Number | NF/PG/2007/0001 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Colombo | Project Period | 2007 |
| Stakeholders | Vettivel Jasikan, Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer, Thambiah Thevathas | ||||
The Text Digitization Project in Colombo 2007 was a digitization project which was initiated to convert physical books into machine readable formats. It was one of the first funded projects carried out by Noolaham Foundation. Prior such funded projects, most digitization tasks were done by volunteers and they did not progress quickly. Some volunteers who were participating in the activities of Noolaham Foundation proposed that they would like to make monetary contributions and a project should be coordinated to digitize books, as they would not find time, expertise and resources to type the books manually. Thus the funded projects were started.
A total of 44 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Sri Lankan Tamil writers and publishers.
