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 (Application Developer)
- Vinodth (Developer)
- Sundar (Information extraction specialist; perl hacker)
- K.Sureshkumar, (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
- Sarveswaran K (Lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna; Open source contributor)
- Saravanaperumal Paranetharan (Undergraduate - Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
- Nimalaprakasan Skandhakumar
- Uthayasanker Thayasivam
- Balachandran Sanjith
- Kanagasabai Erlilverl
Current Projects/To DOs
- Change Noolaham Subject portals to one look and feel using the templates (Status: scheduled on Sat Feb 25, 2012)
- Finalizing the “Noolaham Digitalization Preservation Standards” (Status: Under review by Sarveswaran and Gopi)
- Meta Data Web Application (Status: 75% Done)
- 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)
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)
- 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
