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Item Report back about activities by the South African Digitisation Initiative (SADI)(2014-12-18) Pickover, MicheleItem Report of the South African Digitisation Initiative(SADI) Workshop Digitisation & Digital Libraries: Standards, Best Practices, Policies and Technical Requirements(2013-08-26) Pickover, Michele; Mohale, GabrieleItem The Wits Digitisation Experience: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for National Collaboration(2013-03-07) Pickover, MicheleThe presentation will provide a brief background to the Wits Digitisation Centre, the services it delivers and strategies for the sustainability of the Centre. It will discuss our vision for an Integrated Resource Discovery platform for digital resources in the Library as well as digitisation policy development at Wits. Finally, it will allude to some of the technical and intellectual issues that need to be engaged with for collaboration across institutions and a possible way forward for a South African Digital Libraries and Archives Portal will be proposed.Item Contestations, Ownership, Access and Ideology: Policy Development Challenges for the Digitization of African Heritage and Liberation Archives(2010-12-15) Pickover, MicheleThe digitization of heritage material for publication on the worldwide web is a site of struggle and the real challenges are not technological or technical but social and political. What is at stake is the politics of memory in digital form and how whatever is selected for digitization projects frames research agendas and plays a role in repackaging history. The development dimension is also paramount, the issue of how these projects enhance the public interest, service researchers in the South and promote South-South dialogue. This paper concentrates on policy rather than on narrow technical issues and engages the larger questions which frame digitization projects, such as national policies and processes around heritage, political identities, contested archives, the commodification of the archive and the archive as shaper of national histories. This paper also gives a brief overview of the South African experience, examines notions of partnership that cut across international boundaries, interrogates the ideological and intellectual ramifications, including issues of content selection and access, and engages in policy framework discussions and recommendations.Item ICADLA Programme and other introductory documents(2010-12-15) Pickover, MicheleThe following conference documents:Title Page,Table of Contents and Presenters, Events Programme, Acknowledgements and PrefaceItem Item