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)
Alar 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 and has 1+ million English and Malayalam entries. Its data consists of crowd sourced entries, the Malayalam-Malayalam dictionary digitised by "Datuk" K.J. Joseph, and the English-Malayalam dictionary and thesaurus created by E.K. Kurup. The project was inducted into the foundation in 2023.
Browse the dictionary at olam.in
ಅಲರ್ (Alar)
Alar is an open source, open-data Kannada-English digital dictionary. It is based on the dictionary corpus created by V. Krishna and consists of 150,000 Kannada entries with over 240,000 English definitions. The project was inducted into the foundation in 2023.
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