Digital Heritage, Digital Libraries, Community Engagement, Mobile, Digital Humanities

I read with particular interest that certain Shembe sites in Inanda are now heritage landmarks as the Shembe and Inanda have featured in a fair bit of my work. My Master’s dissertation focussed on the functions of dreams and visions in the Shembe Church at Inanda, we have been working on a mapping prototype for [...]

We’ve recently launched the South Coast Writers Trail, developed with KZN Literary Tourism, designed by Disturbance and funded by the National Arts Council.  The trail includes writers such as Michael Cawood Green, Es’kia Mphahlele, Mazisi Kunene, Daphne Rooke and the editors of Voorslag (Roy Campbell, William Plomer and Laurens van der Post). Stops on the [...]

Although quite different from the work we do, I was interested to come across a project that is creating 3D digital scans of historic buildings and monument. Details as follows: Using state-of-the-art digital mapping and the latest 3D laser scanning technology, this R8.8million National Lottery-funded project aims to preserve KwaZulu-Natal’s rich cultural and historical heritage, [...]

The 18th Alan Paton Lecture: “Madiba, Memory and the Work of Justice” to be given by Verne Harris, Head of the Memory Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory. A ten minute DVD with clips of the Mandela Archive will be shown before the Lecture. This Lecture will take place at 12h45 for [...]

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 [...]