Apr
18
For the second year running I’ve taught in the Literary Tourism in KZN course at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. My focus is on the digital resources the project has developed over the past ten years. These include a number of online, literary documentaries, audio interviews, a database of over 100 KwaZulu-Natal writers and a interactive, [...]
Feb
06
Late last year we took part in the e-Learning Festival at the Durban University of Technology, presenting a session on our work with the KZN Literary Tourism project. The KZN Literary Tourism research project is now in its ninth year of operation. Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts [...]
Feb
07
As part of the relaunch of the KZN Literary Tourism website, we digitised a number of literary documentaries that had been produced by the project. These are available through the website (under the Podcast tab) and also on the video-sharing website Video, where we have set up a dedicated KZN Literary Tourism channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/kznliterarytourism. [...]
Dec
20
Working with the journal Transformation, we recently set up an Open Journal System (OJS) website – a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project. Through the OJS website, we’ve made available all 73 back issues of the journal, digitized with assistance from DISA. OJS is pretty great software with [...]
Dec
14
One of our major projects in the last quarter was the re-development of KZN Literary Tourism website. We originally developed the website over four years ago and it was in need of a fresh look. The software used to run the content-management system needed updating and a number of new technologies had been developed in [...]
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