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| Tuesday, 9 April 2002 |
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The Department of National Archives has teamed up with the National Achieves of the Netherlands to save ancient records of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) in Sri Lanka. The Netherlands Government has granted Rs. 1003305 (Euro 125000) for the project. A press release by the Royal Norwegian Embassy said:- The program is called Towards a New Age of Partnership or TANAP. The TANAP program is facilitated by the Central Cultural Fund. The Memorandum of Understanding in this regard was signed last Thursday, April 4 by Director of the Department of National Archives, Dr. K. D. G. Wimalaratne, the Project Manager of the National Archives of the Netherlands, Dr. P. Koenders and the Director General of the Central Cultural Fund, Prof. A. V. Suraweera. The agreement comprises the development of digital finding aids, courses in old Dutch handwriting, microfilming to safe the contents of the VOC records, a boxing project and the reparation of the documents. Until now repairing one sheet of paper takes a conservator several hours. in this traditional way of conservation the saving of the VOC records might take 30 years. To speed up the process, the National Archives of the Netherlands developed a new so-called leaf-casting unit. This equipment makes it possible to repair at least hundred pages per day per unit. On Friday April 5 two leaf casting units have been donated to the Department of National Archives. Two preservation experts of the Dutch National Archives, Mr. T. Indeweij Gerlings and Mr. W. Hoogduin give a workshop to train their colleagues in Colombo. |
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