Technology

The Technology Division provides technical support to the activities and projects carried out by the Foundation.

Noolaham : Digital Library Software

Currently Mediawiki is being used as the digital library software for Noolaham Digital Library. Mediawiki is being currently used because it is free, easy to use and maintain. However, considering our growing needs we are in the process of transitioning into a proper institutional repository software.

Currently Noolaham technical team is evaulating various digital library software for implimentation. The following features are identified as priorities:

• Multimedia support
• Meta-data
• File system
• Search
• Browsing
• Multilinqual support
• Scalability
• Extendability
• Easy of maintenance
• Software community