ഗ്രന്ഥപ്പുര (Granthappura)
ഗ്രന്ഥപ്പുര, the foundation's flagship project, is a digital archive that consists of cultural artefacts related to Kerala and Malayalam. It was seeded by the scanning and digitisation work Shiju Alex did over the course of a decade, culminating in a collection of 5000+ digitized books and publications.
The documents include some of the earliest printed documents related to Kerala including the first printed book in Malayalam; the first Malayalam book printed in India; the first Malayalam dictionary; many early Malayalam periodicals; first Malayalam book with colour images, and several others.
Browse the open access collection at gpura.org
- Archival centre #1: Dharmaram College, Bengaluru with 1 × BookEye 5 scanner.
- Archival centre #2: P. Govinda Pilla Reference Library, Thiruvanathapuram with 1 × BookEye 5 scanner.
- Archival centre #3: University of Madras Library in collaboration with C-DIT.
- Archival centre #4: Kottayam Public Library in collaboration with C-DIT.
ഓളം (Olam)
ഓളം is an open source, open data English-Malayalam, Malayalam-Malayalam digital dictionary developed in 2010 by Kailash Nadh. It is used by over 2.5+ million Malayalam speakers monthly. Its data consists of crowd sourced entries and the Malayalam-Malayalam dictionary digitised by "Datuk" K.J. Joseph. The project was inducted into the foundation in 2023.
Browse the dictionary at olam.in
Samam
Samam is an open source, open data Malayalam-Tamil-Kannada-Telugu dictionary created by Njyattela Shreedharan. [1] [2] In 2023, the foundation worked with Njyattela Shreedharan to open source and digitise the dictionary that he compiled over a period of 25 years.
Browse the dictionary at samam.net