For the second year running I’ve taught in the Literary Tourism in KZN course at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. My focus is on the digital resources the project has developed over the past ten years. These include a number of online, literary documentaries, audio interviews, a database of over 100 KwaZulu-Natal writers and a interactive, [...]
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Teaching Digital Heritage (and a little bit of Internet Activism)
This semester I have been co-teaching two courses at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The first is through the programme of English Studies and looks at the development of heritage resources, using the example of the KZN Literary Tourism project. We deal with the development of writers trails, the research and writing of the author profiles, [...]
Classification and its consequences
The Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity is holding a symposium on classification next week. Niall McNulty will be taking part in a session on classifying information, where he will discuss the Ulwazi programme and the process and purpose of classifying intangible heritage. Two sessions are also open to the public: Classifying [...]
Transformation Open Journal System
Working with the journal Transformation, we recently set up an Open Journal System (OJS) website – a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project. Through the OJS website, we’ve made available all 73 back issues of the journal, digitized with assistance from DISA. OJS is pretty great software with [...]