An Exploration of the Digitisation Strategies of the Liberation Archives of the African National Congress in South Africa

Q2 Social Sciences New Review of Information Networking Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI:10.1080/13614576.2019.1608571

Sidney Netshakhuma, M. Ngoepe

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ABSTRACT Despite the availability of guidelines, standards, and software developed by national archives, professional associations, research groups and commercial organizations, digital records are still a challenge to manage, especially in Africa. A number of digitization projects undertaken by archival organizations in Africa failed to realize their goals of ensuring preservation and access of records. This is partially due to lack of strategies to migrate from analog to digital records. This study explored the strategies adopted by the African National Congress (ANC) in digitizing its liberation archives with the aim of capturing lessons learnt. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with purposively selected employees of the ANC, MultiChoice, Africa Media Online, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation as they were involved in the digitization project of the liberation archives. The results revealed that the ANC established an archives management committee to lead the implementation of digitization of the liberation archives. Furthermore, the ANC relied heavily on the companies MultiChoice and Africa Media Online, as its archivists were not trained for the digitization of archives. A number of lessons learnt with regard to the digitization of liberations archives are captured. The study concludes by demonstrating the importance of having a strategy in digitizing archival holdings. It is recommended that this study should be extended to other liberation movements in eastern and southern Africa. Furthermore, a study on determining the authenticity of digitized liberation archives is recommended.

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南非非洲人国民大会解放档案数字化策略探讨

尽管国家档案馆、专业协会、研究小组和商业组织开发了指导方针、标准和软件，但数字记录管理仍然是一个挑战，特别是在非洲。非洲档案组织开展的一些数字化项目未能实现其确保保存和获取记录的目标。这部分是由于缺乏从模拟记录向数字记录迁移的策略。本研究探讨了非洲人国民大会(ANC)在将其解放档案数字化方面采取的策略，目的是获取经验教训。定性数据是通过对参与解放档案数字化项目的非国大、多选择、非洲媒体在线和纳尔逊·曼德拉基金会的员工进行访谈收集的。结果显示，ANC成立了档案管理委员会，领导实施解放档案的数字化。此外，ANC严重依赖MultiChoice和Africa Media Online公司，因为它的档案保管员没有接受过档案数字化方面的培训。在解放档案的数字化方面吸取了一些经验教训。该研究的结论是证明了在档案馆藏数字化方面制定战略的重要性。兹建议将这项研究扩大到东部和南部非洲的其他解放运动。此外，还建议对数字化解放档案的真实性进行研究。

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New Review of Information Networking Social Sciences-Education

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期刊介绍： Information networking is an enabling technology with the potential to integrate and transform information provision, communication and learning. The New Review of Information Networking, published biannually, provides an expert source on the needs and behaviour of the network user; the role of networks in teaching, learning, research and scholarly communication; the implications of networks for library and information services; the development of campus and other information strategies; the role of information publishers on the networks; policies for funding and charging for network and information services; and standards and protocols for network applications.