Enabling African Heritage Collections to Cross the Digital Divide
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2020
Following the success of webinars we ran toward the end of April under the theme of “Reaching your Audience Digitally”, we have decided to extend the series and will be running the following webinars: Preparing your material for upload to your digital archive – arrangement, standards and toolsDavid Larsen and Bandile Sizani Tuesday, May 26, 10 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2020
A digital archive is not just a nice to have, an activity we should do simply for posterity’s sake without any real impact on the execution of the core vision and mission of an organization. Yet that is what it will always be for the decision makers in your organization unless you can ensure that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2020
Some years ago, Africa Media Online was involved in establishing the independent not-for-profit Digitise Africa Trust. By January 2020, however, the Trust was fully operational with its own independent Board of Trustees and its own bank account. The Vision of the Digitise Africa Trust is to enable the digital preservation of and access to primary […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2020
Africa Media Online has recently been actively looking for investors to enable us to further develop our systems and also grow our reach across Africa and into other parts of the World in line with our vision of Africans telling Africa’s story. So we have needed to describe what we do in a nutshell. So […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2020
On March 1, Africa Media Online will be 20 years old. It has taken that full 20 years to develop what we are now calling, Preservatio, our vertically integrated digital preservation and access ecosystem. Below is an introductory video to Preservatio giving you an overview of the system. Before that, however, you may want to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2019
In the past year, I have had the honour and privilege of presenting some of the achievements we have accomplished here in Africa at some of the World’s leading heritage forums. IASA International Conference 2018, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana At the beginning of October last year, I had the privilege of presenting at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2019
It has been several years in the making, but MEMAT 4 has finally been launched. Soft-launched to MEMAT 3 clients a year ago, there has been a significant amount of work to debug and to add a growing list of features. MEMAT 4 is the latest iteration of Africa Media Online’s archival digital repository system. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2019
The first International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) event in Africa will be held on Thursday, September 26 and Friday, September 27, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg Campus. IIIF is the new international standard for placing archival, museum and special collections online. Below is a short video from the recent IIIF international conference in at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2019
It’s been a long time coming, but it is finally here – the MEMAT Metadata App. We wanted to develop an online metadata application that could allow us to draw on experts all over South Africa and indeed, all over the World, to capture of metadata against digital files. The MEMAT Metadata App, which has […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2019
This has been a long time coming. For over half a decade we have been wanting to overhaul our website and make it more representative of the totality of Africa Media Online. In the past, our website was dominated by the media library side of our enterprise and the digital trade route side of the […]