For the past nine months I have been managing the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project website and its social media accounts. The project was initially established in 2003 to research and document manuscript tradition in Africa. More recently, Timbuktu has been in the press due to civil unrest and the threat this poses to various manuscript collections in the ancient city. …
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Information for Sustainable Development in a Digital Environment
We will be presenting a paper on the Ulwazi Programme at the SCECSAL Conference in Nairobi, Kenya next month. More on the conference below, looks interesting and right up our alley! Technological developments that have taken place during the past decade have brought opportunities which have drastically changed human life. The internet has added a new …
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Tribing and Untribing the Archive
I recently attended this workshop in Johannesburg. See details below, Grant. The Origins Centre at the University of Witwatersrand hummed over the weekend of 24 and 25 March during a workshop co-hosted by the APC initiative and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). The workshop on ‘tribing and untribing the archive’ brought together established and emerging …
SABIF FUNDING FOR DIGITISATION OF DATA IN SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS
Now we need a similar project for the Social Sciences/Humanities! The South African Biodiversity Information Facility (SABIF) is the South African Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) established by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in collaboration with the National Research Foundation, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as well as members …
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