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Increasing access to Local Language Content
Presenter:Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project “Noolaham”
Contents
Problem Statement
Motivation
What is Project Noolaham?
Features &Functionality
Financial Costs
Benefits Achieved
Challenges Faced
Future Work
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Problem Statement
Relevant local content has to be made accessible.
Different categories of Tamil speaking communities exist in
Sri Lanka.
Need to access their language content through various
means.
To conduct research and to make researchers get involved
in the welfare of these communities
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Motivation
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To preserve Sri Lankan Tamil related documents, research papers, publications and archive them.
To create a Tamil digital library accessible to all.
To engage in research.
To collaborate with similar efforts.
Project “Noolaham”
Project “Noolaham” is a non profitable, collective and ‐
voluntary endeavor
Aims to preserve Sri Lankan Tamil related publications in
digital format
Enables increased access to the traditional local language
content
“Noolaham” Foundation collaborates with various
institutions and projects in order to create a collaborative
Virtual Digital Library (VDL).
What is Project “Noolaham”?
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Participants from all around the world (including India
Direct participation in digitization, monetary donations,
wiki contribution and coordination of projects
Collaboration made with various organizations like WERC
Many prominent publishers reposit their work at Noolaham
Noolaham is truly global by virtue of its participants and
functioning
Participation
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Muhappu Seyathittam (Front Page Project)
Ithazhagam Project
Colombo Scanning Project, 2008
Trincomalee Scanning Project, 2008
Thamizham Pollachi Nasan Project
Sub Projects Carried Out
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Growth of Noolaham
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100
362
1618
2888
3800
Year
Digitized Documents2005
2006
2007
2008
June 2009
Noolaham System
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NoolahamDocument Types
Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Research Papers
CategoriesAuthors
Year of Publication
Publishers
Book Type
Network
PortalsMallihai
Grantha
Documents Added each Year
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2005 2006 2007 20080
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
100
262
1256 1270
No of New Documents
Sectional Overview
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31%
58%
9% 1%
Digitized Documents (Until June 2009)
BooksMagazinesNewspapersPamphlets
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
No of UsersExponential (No of Users)
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Unique Visits per Month
MediaWiki – Open Source Software
Designed for open collaboration
Registered users can edit the web pages
Pages are creating using Wiki Markup
All Contribution are logged in the Mediawiki System
Archiving
Scanned documents
The scanned images will be converted to text using Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) technology when it is viable.
Technology
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Easy Quick Navigation Bar
Main Menu Bar
Donation Template
You can donate with
Paypal
Noolaham Short Intro
Prominent Newly Added
Documents
Search Bar
Noolaham Document
List
Browse by Category
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Financial Cost (2005 -2008)
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DonationsBank Interest
0100000200000300000400000500000600000700000800000 702962
990.85
RevenueProjects Hosting Backup Printing Bank
Charges
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000 633890
587729300 1000 351.4
ExpenditureTotal Revenue
703,952.85Total Expenditure
703,313.40
Benefits Achieved
Enables increased access to traditional local language
content
Supports cognitive work of scholars and researchers
Literary Heritage is being preserved for future generation
Enables social interaction for the achievement of
constructive social outcomes
Functions as a repository for various institutions
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Challenges Faced
Noolaham Depends on Voluntary Contribution
Insufficient Voluntary Contribution
Slows the pace of the work being done
Financial Difficulties
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Future Work
To implement web 2.0 concepts in to the system
Empower researchers/users to collaborate in knowledge
creation
Communicate this to schools, universities, libraries and
private institutions
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A Last Thought..
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“The ready availability of relevant local language content is critical for the development of productive capacity…
Without locally relevant content in local languages, immediate uses of ICTs for day-to-day activities may not
be apparent.”
- Danny Butt and Madanmohan Rao (PAN Localisation - Authors’ Working Group on Content)
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THANK YOU !