ISBN:
978-90-04-27230-9
Language:
English
Pages:
262 S.
Keywords:
Afrika Digitale Medien
;
Information
;
Lehre und Didaktik
;
Pädagogik
;
Massenmedien
;
Sozialer Prozess
;
Archiv
;
Nationalismus
;
Identität
Description / Table of Contents:
African studies in the digital age : challenges for research and national libraries / Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace -- Dazzled by digital? : research environments in African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources / Jonathan Harle -- Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think : the pitfalls of increased access to digital resources in university history departments in Zimbabwe / Diana Jeater -- Improving digital collection access with simple search engine optimisation strategies / Daniel A. Reboussin and Laurie N. Taylor -- Building futures : the role of digital collections in shaping national identity in Africa / Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tanner -- The West African manuscript heritage : challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy / Amidu Sanni -- Recovering the African printed past : virtually re-membering a dispersed collection in Eritrea / Massimo Zaccaria -- Archives and the past : cataloguing and digitisation in Uganda's archives / Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond -- 'Life is so summarised' : society's memory in the digital age in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn and Walter Gam Nkwi -- African newspapers in the online world : information gains and losses / Hartmut Bergenthum -- Viewing 'Africa through a lens' : using digitisation and online tools at the National Archives (UK) to widen audience reach / Jenni Orme -- The integration of historical cartography into the present day : the Darfur case / Lucia Lovison-Golob -- Concluding remarks / Peter Limb.
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