Vietnamese Nôm Preservation FoundationThe Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation was founded in 1999 as a public charity devoted to preserving 1000 years of writing in Chữ Nôm, the Chinese-like script that Vietnamese used to record their own language and its vast heritage of poetry, history, medicine, and religion. The Foundation has been instrumental in digitizing the Nôm collections housed at the National Library of Vietnam, in Hanoi.