I recently published a blog post on the Archival Platform on the democratising potential of new digital technologies. This was in part a response to the recent workshop on the draft National Policy on the Digitisation of Heritage Resources. The draft policy focuses on institutional issues relating to the digitisation of heritage resources. While these …
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Archival Platform: Launch & Guest Blog
The Archival Platform launches in Cape Town today. Archives in South Africa are currently underfunded and understaffed, putting valuable documents at risk. Museums and heritage sites are often still perceived by the public as being part of the old apartheid order, and transforming the sector has not been as easy as we thought in 1994. …
Archival Platform
Sorry, I have been a lazy blogger as of late but this directly translates into a busy consultant. Check out this great new project, the Archival Platform, run by Harriet Deacon. The Archival Platform’s aim is to facilitate dialogue and information sharing between professionals, academics and government employees in the heritage and archive sector. From …