INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY ‘COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE’ MEETING HELD AT ASSAf November 24, 2011
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From left: Louise van Heerden (ASSAf), Adèle van der Merwe (CSIR), Hettie Groenewald (UP), Ria Groenewald (UP), Zweli Ndayi (ASSAf) and Susan Veldsman (ASSAf)
On Wednesday, 23 November 2011, the Scholarly Publishing Unit of ASSAf hosted a ‘Community of Practice’ meeting focussing on Digitisation. The meeting was arranged by Louise van Heerden, SciELO SA Database Coordinator and Zweli Ndayi, Project Officer and Institutional Repository Coordinator.
Twenty six people attended the meeting. They were from University of Pretoria (UP), North-West University (NWU), University of Johannesburg (UJ), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), Sabinet, Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Vaal University of Technology (VUT) and the National Research Foundation (NRF). The first speaker was Adèle van der Merwe, the Records Manager and Archival Services Manager of the CSIR Library who gave a presentation on “Digitisation and migration activities at the CSIR: a case study”. The second speaker was Ria Groenewald, the Digitisation Coordinator of the E-Strategy Unit in the University of Pretoria Library who gave a presentation on “Digitisation and digital preservation sustainability issues to consider when digitising“. This was followed by time for questions and sharing experiences at the various organisations.
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