Managing documents with Omeka

August 11 0 Comments Category: Archives, Digitisation

Earlier on in the year we started a project which involves digitizing and making available online a large number of newspaper clippings.  We had originally looked at Greenstone for the collections management software but it seemed too clunky for what we needed.  Likewise Drupal wasn’t ideal as it needed a fair bit of customization in [...]

City Cultures Seminar: DURBAN SINGS

March 01 1 Comment Category: Archives, Culture

DURBAN SINGS is a pilot project collaboratively initiated and collectively developed by Molefi Mafareka Ndlovu, community research scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (CCS, UKZN), and Dr. Claudia Wegener, a visiting scholar from the University of the Arts London (UAL), together with 50 young people from 12 Durban community organizations, many of them now [...]