Project Madurai (மதுரை தமிழ் இலக்கிய மின்தொகுப்புத் திட்டம்) is an open and voluntary initiative to publish free versions of ancient

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literature on the

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. Texts are published in both TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange), since its launch in 1998 and

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formats from 2004. The project was led by Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland (Project Leader) and Dr. P. Kumar Mallikarjunan, Blacksburg, Va, USA (Dy. Project Leader). Project Madurai is one among many projects those are currently active worldwide which attempt to put ancient literary works in electronic form. The etexts are distributed in both HTML and PDF file formats

History

The Madurai project was initially made with the Inaimadhi and Mayilai Tamil fonts. But since 1999,

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have been produced and produced by the Tamil-language Tamil database (

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TSCII Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) is a coding scheme for representing the Tamil script. The lower 128 codepoints are plain ASCII, the upper 128 codepoints are TSCII-specific. After long years of being used on the Internet by pr ...

). Mobile phones are also distributed on web pages (webpages in html format), PDF format. Since 2003, the

system has been released.

Tools Used

During this project eKalappai(e-plough) is the tool used to type Tamil letters using standard US-en 101 Key board.

Awards

*In 2007 Project Madurai was awarded the Iyal Award from

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for their contribution to Tamil Literature through Information Technology

References

External links

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