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 9th, 2015
This is the fourth post in a series that looks at steps toward building a digital archive. After an introduction to building a digital archive we looked at the Scoping process that aligns your goal of building a digital archive with the vision, mission and strategic objectives of your organisation, and the Screening process that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2014
Why build a digital archive? That is a very good question, particularly since building a digital archive involves a lot of effort and considerable expense. For memory institutions (archives, museums and libraries) the need to build a digital archive is compelling. As the European Union funded DigiCULT Report (p.90) stated, in the new information economy […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2014
We’ve never created a video that gives the context for our archival digital repository system called MEMAT and why it is that such systems are needed by everyone really… at least everyone who needs or wants to keep their digital media for the long term. There is always a first time though, so here it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2013
It was a proud moment for us at Africa Media Online last Monday evening. It was the culmination of a year-and-a-half of hard work as the ANC Digital Archives were handed over to the President of the ANC and the President of South Africa, President Jacob Zuma. The handover of the output from one of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2013
In 2012 the African National Congress turned 100. As the oldest modern liberation movement in the World it was fitting that ahead of the centenary celebrations a project should be initiated to digitise the ANC Archives and give access to the extensive collections to ANC members, the people of South Africa and researchers around the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2013
The Heritage Digital Campus was held at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape in 2012. In spite of its remote location many heritage professionals made the trek coming from as far afield as Pretoria. This video gives some insight into the experience of participants. Registration for Heritage Digital Campus 2013 closes on Tuesday […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2013
I am delighted to announce that registration for the Heritage DIgital Campus is now open. I am thrilled with how things have come together on a number of levels. Firstly the team we have gathered includes some leading authorites in digital archiving from South Africa and around the World. Sarah Saunders from the UK sits […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2012
DIGITISATION TRAINING FOR HERITAGE PRACTITIONERS – SIGN UP BY MARCH 5, 2012 I am thrilled to be able to invite you once again to our Heritage Digital Campus which we have run successfully in different parts of South Africa since 2005. This year it is the turn of the Eastern Cape. Digitisation of collections is […]