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ANC Archives Launched

May 6th, 2013 by David Larsen

It was a proud moment for us at Africa Media Online last Monday evening. It was the culmination of a year-and-a-half of hard work as the ANC Digital Archives were handed over to the President of the ANC and the President of South Africa, President Jacob Zuma.

The handover of the output from one of South Africa’s largest digitisation projects to date was made by Mr Nolo Letele, Executive Chairman of MultiChoice South Africa Group, the organisation that sponsored the project, to the African National Congress at the event held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. For the first time in their 100 year history, the ANC Archives are widely accessible to the public (without having to travel to Alice in the Eastern Cape). A selection of the archives are now available on the ANC Archives Public Site and application can be make to gain access to the ANC Archives Research Site that presents all the digitised material.

The gala dinner at the Sandton Convention Centre for the hand over of the ANC Digital Archive, April 29, 2013. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

As Africa Media Online we headed up the technical aspect of the project taking charge of digitising over 20,000 photographic images (negatives, transparencies and prints) and 24,000 document pages, many of which were fragile. Wanting to keep to our core strengths, we pulled in partner organisations to digitise the audio and video collections. Grahamstown-based International Library of African Music (ILAM) digitised 2,193 audio tracks and Cape Town-based Doxa digitised 774 videos. Multichoice brought Creative Spark, another Cape Town-based company on board to do project management and to build the public web site. The digitisation was undertaken over a six-month period at The National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape.

From our perspective this has been a highly significant project for the heritage sector in South Africa. Not only have we digitised a large portion of the archives of the World’s oldest modern liberation movement, but the project saw a collaboration between a political party, an academic institution, a multinational corporation and a number of SMME’s. That we worked so well together is indicative of principles on which the African National Congress was built – that South Africa belongs to all who live in it and together we can do more than we can apart.

President Zuma hands a statuette of the ANC Flame of Freedom to Mr Nolo Letele as an expression of gratitude for their role in funding the digitisation of the ANC Archives. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

We believe the project is also significant because it is a local production. It brought together some of the leading experts in South Africa in the area of digitisation and proved that local expertise is up to the challenge of digitising our own heritage and making it available to the South African public and the international community on a world-class platform.

What is so exceptional about the Archives is that it gives access to the source material. One has access to the thoughts and struggles of some of South Africa’s most extraordinary persons as they worked through to a point of vision and largesse in the face of a brutal regime that sought to crush them. In his acceptance speech (presented below) President Zuma highlights this amazing heritage that the ANC has received. Let their legacy, that is available in these Archives be an inspiration to all South Africans and people everywhere.

Making the ANC Digital Archives Work

May 6th, 2013 by David Larsen

The ANC Digital Archives, launched on April 29, 2013 at a gala function in Johannesburg, are still a work in progress! In particular, not many of the files that have been digitally captured have had information associated with them such that they can be easily searched for. As a result in hosting the digital archive, Africa Media Online has had to come up with some innovative solutions that allow users to navigate around the archive.

Everything that has been digitised of the ANC Archives is being made available on Africa Media Online’s MEMAT archival digital repository system. Developed by us here in South Africa, we have been working on MEMAT for 12 years and have built it using Open Source programming languages and using open standards. It is now in its third generation and it conforms very closely to the ISO standard for long-term archiving of digital media, the OAIS standard.

Search results page on the ANC Archives Research Site

The real power of the MEMAT system is its management and preservation of media files. Known as the Asset Management Layer, files are placed into Security Boxes in the Digital Vault and once ingested they are check summed and cannot be changed in any way. While files can be superseded, for digital authenticity, the system does not allow a change to the original file. The system also stores all related metadata and can handle any metadata schema that is in use. It can be set up in a distributed manner keeping multiple servers in multiple locations synchronized with one another even in low bandwidth environments.

For the ANC Archives MEMAT is being used to manage all the content generated in the project – photo, video, audio and manuscript files and their associated metadata. It also ensures they are backed up regularly. The system can be made to speak through to any web interface presentation layer including Joomla and Drupal. In the case of the ANC Archives, however, we are using the MEMAT Presentation Layer that has been upgraded as part of this project to allow for various levels of access as well as time-contrained access. The site has been set up specifically for researchers who want access to the deep archive. A system like this tends to only reach its potential, however, if information has been captured about each digital file.

Browse Galleries on the ANC Archives Research Site

As has been said, the ANC Archives are a work in progress. Not everything in the archive has been digitised. In particular only about a fifth of the manuscripts have been captured in digital form. In addition, of what has been captured, only a small portion has had metadata associated with it. Metadata is information about a digital file. For example, a picture of Oliver Tambo laying a wreath at a grave site to fallen heroes in Mozambique, could not be found on the web site when searching for it unless this information had been captured in a caption and associated with the digital image.

Not having metadata readily available has presented us with some significant challenges in terms of making the archive searchable and accessible. To do this we had to come up with some innovative solutions based on the methodology we used to capture the archive in the first place. The video below introduces you to the system and presents some of the solutions we found for making the ANC Archives accessible in spite of a lack of metadata.

Tags: African National Congress Digital Archives, ANC Archives Research Site, MEMAT archival digital repository system

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A Pictorial History of the Digitisation of the ANC Archives

May 6th, 2013 by David Larsen

In 2012 the African National Congress turned 100. As the oldest modern liberation movement in the World it was fitting that ahead of the centenary celebrations a project should be initiated to digitise the ANC Archives and give access to the extensive collections to ANC members, the people of South Africa and researchers around the World.

The initial group that met together to strategize about the digitisation of the ANC Archive seen here at the NAHECS Building at the University of Fort Hare. The group included representatives of the ANC, Multichoice, University of Fort Hare and Africa Media Online. These included: Far left: Mandla Langa (ANC), Second left: Professor Michael Somniso (UFH), Third Left: Vuyani Booi (NAHECS, UFH), Fourth left: Moferefere Lekorotsoana (ANC), Sixth left: Yoli Soul (UFH), Eighth left: Eddie McAlone (Multichoice), Tenth left: Vuyolwethu Feni-Fete (NAHECS, UFH) PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

Toward this end the ANC approached Multichoice, a major media company in South Africa who agreed to sponsor the project. Together with ANC leadership Multichoice engaged the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare where the bulk of the Archives were housed to plan the project ahead of the centenary year.

Archivist Mark Snyders of NAHECS at the University of Fort Hare introduces the ANC archive to from left Catherine Murray of Creative Spark and Grace Coates and Alastair Mason of Doxa Productions during a fact finding trip to NAHECS ahead of the project to digitise the ANC Archives. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

Multichoice also engaged Africa Media Online as a South African company specialising in the digitisation of historic archives who agreed to take on the digitisation of the rare manuscripts and photographic collections and to provide the archival digital repository system that would host and provide access to the digitised archives. Africa Media Online also introduced Multichoice to the International Library of African Music to take on the digitisation of the audio material and Doxa Productions to digitise the video material. In addition Creative Spark were contracted to project manage the project and eventually to build the public web site.

Blessing Mtolo of Africa Media Online digitises a manuscript page during the six month project to digitise the ANC Archives. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

Phase 1 of what became known as Project Antelope started in October 2011 and aimed at getting a selection of material that could be used at the time of the ANC centenary celebrations digitised. Phase 2 ran from January to March 2012 and by the end of this phase over 24,000 manuscript pages and 20,000 photographic images as well as all the audio and video content of the archive had been digitised and placed on Africa Media Online’s MEMAT archival digital repository system that had been installed on servers in the NAHECS building at the University of Fort Hare.

Grace Coates of Doxa Productions works on digitising video tapes from the ANC Archives. Doxa worked two shifts for a number of months to complete the project in time. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

Elijah Madiba of the International Library of African Music (ILAM) works on tape reels from the ANC Archive. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

David Larsen, Managing Director of Africa Media Online, showing his set up for the capture of museum objects from the ANC Archives at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. PHOTO: Graeme Cookson

David Larsen, Managing Director of Africa Media Online, showing his set up for the capture of museum objects from the ANC Archives to participants in Africa Media Online’s Heritage Digital Campus which was run at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa as part of the overall project to equip the archivists from the University of Fort Hare to continue the work of capturing the metadata and digitising the archive. PHOTO: Graeme Cookson

Digital Consultant, Patricia Liebetrau, teaching a masterclass at the Heritage Digital Campus that was run at the University of Fort Hare to ensure the handover of skills to the ANC and UFH archivists. Patricia also assisted Africa Media Online in training staff ahead of the project and project managing the digital capture of manuscripts. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

In May 2012 President Zuma paid a visit to the University of Fort Hare to give a lecture to mark the centenary celebrations of the African National Congress. At a ceremony at the NAHECS building where the ANC Archives are stored the archives were presented to the President, the National Chairperson of the ANC, Ms Baleka Mbete and other dignitaries. Also present at the event were Dr Mvuyo Tom, Vice-Chancellor of UFH, Mr Nolo Letele, Executive Chairman of MultiChoice South Africa Group and Multichoice Group CEO, Imtiaz Patel.

President Jacob Zuma at the soft launch of the ANC Digital Archive at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The soft launch of the Archive was part of the celebration events held in 2012 to commemorate the centerary of the African National Congress.

President Jacob Zuma (centre) flanked by Dr Mvuyo Tom Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare (left) and National Chairperson of the ANC Ms Baleka Mbete (right) at the soft launch of the ANC Digital Archive at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The soft launch of the Archive was part of the celebration events held in 2012 to commemorate the centerary of the African National Congress. Africa Media Online was able to demonstrate a mock up of the ANC Archives Research Site to the President at the event. PHOTO: David Larsen

Business leaders present at the ANC Centenary Lecture delivered by President Zuma, From left to right: Multichoice Group CEO, Imtiaz Patel, Executive Chairman of MultiChoice South Africa Group, Nolo Letele, and Chief Executive Officer of Glenngwe Development, Ike Ngwena. Multichoice was present as funders of the ANC Digital Archive. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

In September 2012 Phase 3 of the project was initiated to create the systems to make the archive accessible. Creative Spark created the ANC Archives Public Website and Africa Media Online created the ANC Archives Research Website. Both were officially launched at a gala event at the Sandton Convention Centre on April 29, 2013 when Mr Nolo Letele, Executive Chairman of MultiChoice South Africa Group, handed over the archive to the ANC President and President of South Africa President Jacob Zuma.

A gathering of the team that undertook the digitisation of the ANC Archive at The Edge in the Hogsback. The team involving staff from Multichoice, the University of Fort Hare, the ANC, Africa Media Online, Creative Spark, Doxa and the International Library of African Music had worked at University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University from October 2011 to March 2012. PHOTO: David Larsen / Africa Media Online

While much has been accomplished to date, it is just the beginning of the work that needs to be done on the archive and that work continues. Currently most of the digitised material does not have associated information captured that would make the digital files findable. Africa Media Online has created some interim solutions for this problem but ultimately this work of capturing the related information (known as metadata) will need to be carried out. This will be the task of Phase 4 of the project. A further phase is likely to see the digitisation of the remainder of the manuscripts as only about one fifth of the manuscript archive was digitised in phases 1 and 2.

Screen grab from the ANC Archives Public Site built by Creative Spark

A screen grab / print screen of the ANC Archives Public Site built by Creative Spark

The ANC Archives Research Site developed by Africa Media Online as a web interface to the full ANC Digital Archive stored on their MEMAT 3 archival digital repository system

A screen grab / print screen of the ANC Archives Research Site developed by Africa Media Online as a web interface to the full ANC Digital Archive stored on their MEMAT 3 archival digital repository system

Tags: Africa Media Online, African National Congress Centenary, Alastair Mason, ANC Archives Public Site, ANC Archives Research Site, ANC Digital Archives, Baleka Mbete, Blessing Mtolo, Catherine Murray, Creative Spark, David Larsen, Doxa Productions, Dr Mvuyo Tom, Eddie McAlone, Elijah Madiba, Grace Coates, Imtiaz Patel, International Library of African Music, Mandla Langa, Mark Snyders, MEMAT archival digital repository system, Moferefere Lekorotsoana, Multichoice, National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare, Nolo Letele, Professor Michael Somniso, Vuyani Booi, Vuyolwethu Feni-Fete, Yoli Soul

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150 Years of Maritzburg College Celebrated with the Opening of a Museum

Mar 15th, 2013 by David Larsen

One of the oldest schools in KwaZulu-Natal celebrated their 150th anniversary on February 28 with the opening of a museum. My colleague, Kevin Jones, and I had the privilege of being invited to the opening at the Pietermaritzburg school by the School Archivist, Henriette Ridley. The new museum was opened by the most recent former headmaster Rod Jury and it was the first event that the new headmaster of the school got to attend.

The Maritzburg College Museum was opened on the 150th Anniversary of the all boys school by former headmaster Ron Jury (2006-2012) who had paved the way for its establishment. PHOTO: David Larsen/Africa Media Online

It was also wonderful to discover that the museum was curated by Charmaine Naidoo. Charmaine used to be at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and we had worked with here extensively ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup to put up an exhibition of soccer photographs which still hang on the stairs of the museum. Charmaine has done a fine job of mixing old and new in the small museum, objects and multimedia displays. The funding for the work came primarily from the National Lottery, although the school and the old boys also contributed. Of course the school archivist, Henriette Ridley, a well known personality in museums circles was behind the funding proposal to Lotto.

One of the most interesting display’s for me was one honouring the legendary Skonk Nicholson (James Mervyn Nicholson (6 February 1917 – 27 February 2011)), for many many years the “unbeatable” rugby coach of Maritzburg College who coached the likes of Joel Stransky. Joel famously won the 1995 Rugby World Cup for South Africa with his drop goal in extra time.

Tags: Charmaine Naidoo, Henriette Ridley, Maritzburg College 150th Anniversary, Maritzburg College Museum

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What you said about Heritage Digital Campus last year

Mar 6th, 2013 by David Larsen

The Heritage Digital Campus was held at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape in 2012. In spite of its remote location many heritage professionals made the trek coming from as far afield as Pretoria. This video gives some insight into the experience of participants. Registration for Heritage Digital Campus 2013 closes on Tuesday March 26, 2013.

Video length: 4 minutes 52 seconds

View more testimonies here…

Tags: Africa Media Online, Alice, Heritage Digital Campus, University of Fort Hare

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Heritage Digital Campus 2013 Registration Now Open

Feb 14th, 2013 by David Larsen

I am delighted to announce that registration for the Heritage DIgital Campus is now open. I am thrilled with how things have come together on a number of levels.

Firstly the team we have gathered includes some leading authorites in digital archiving from South Africa and around the World. Sarah Saunders from the UK sits on the committee that sets the global standard for what and how metadata is embedded in image files. Graeme Cookson has worked with the same world body to make their work compatible with and available to Adobe products. Patricia Liebetrau was South Africa’s first metadata librarian. Elijah Madiba spearheaded the digitisation of the World’s largest collection of African music. Niall McNulty created an award winning project that used Web 2.0 technologies to collect and disseminate indigenous knowledge and local history. Copyright lawyer, Tobias Schonwetter, is the Regional Coordinator for Africa for Creative Commons. Paul Changuion has created one of South Africa’s leading online services for ordering and delivering printed products. And so the list goes on. Each one is an expert in their own right doing well what they are going to be teaching you to do.

Secondly we have grown The Digital Campus to two weeks and are offering what I expect is the most comprehensive insight into digital archiving that has been made available to working professionals in South Africa to date. The way the weeks are structured you can come for just portions of it. The opportunity is there to get the full picture or to just fill in any gaps you may have.

Thirdly the Heritage Digital Campus is being run alongside the Shutha Digital Campus serving media professionals and is bracketed by two documentary festivals, DocuFest Africa and Encounters. It really is going to be a festival of learning and interaction.

Finally we are doing all this in a tranquil setting removed from the bustle and distraction of everyday life. It will be focused time with space to take it all in. It really is a Campus and I am thrilled that the historic and beautiful Michaelhouse school is partnering with us to make that a reality. Certainly their facilities are the best we have used.

So I think you can pick it up – I’m excited! It would be wonderful if you could make it and join me on The Digital Campus.

Click here to find out more…

Here is more about who will be training you

Here is the full programme

To serve you better we have tried to create packages that fit your role

Tags: Africa Media Online, Graeme Cookson, Heritage Digital Campus, Nial McNulty, Sarah Saunders, The Digital Campus, Tobias Schonwetter

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Digitisation of the ANC Archive

Feb 6th, 2013 by David Larsen

A highlight for me last year was asking President Zuma for his email address so that I could email a picture to him!

I got to ask him this during a 10 minute presentation I was giving him and other dignitaries including former Deputy President of South Africa and current Chairperson of the ANC, Baleka Mbete on the ANC Digital Archive. The picture was a picture of himself as a young man with other ANC stalwarts that I had searched for on the demo ANC Digital Archive we had created.

President Zuma flanked by former Deputy President of South Africa and current Chairperson of the ANC, Baleka Mbete (right), and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare, Dr Mvuyo Tom (left) at the soft launch of the ANC Digital Archive in May 2012. PHOTO: David Larsen

Needless to say, I was not given his email address. I was, however, given the email address of an aid and the picture was sent and received by him and all were suitably impressed. The presentation was part of the ANC Centenary Celebrations at the University of Fort Hare at which the President gave a memorial lecture. The University of Fort Hare is also the home of The National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) which houses the African National Congress archive and the archives of a number of other liberation movements including the PAC and AZAPO.

The road to the point of delivering the presentation to the President had been fairly short considering all the work that went in to being able to do that. In July 2011 we were approached by Multichoice to spearhead the digitisation of the ANC Archive. Multichoice has been asked by the ANC’s Mandla Langa to assist with funding the project ahead of their Centenary year. This was thanks to Johann van Tonder who was working with Media24 at the time and recommended to Eddie MacAlone of Multichoice that they get in touch with us at Africa Media Online as digitising archives is our core business.

That started a process which saw us introducing Multichoice to Doxa Productions in Cape Town and ILAM in Grahamstown. Beginning in October 2011 Doxa undertook the digitisation of all the video tapes, ILAM the digitisation of all the sound files and we at Africa Media Online took charge of digitising over 20,000 photographic images (negatives, transparencies and prints) and 24,000 document pages, many of which were fragile. The document pages are about a fifth of the entire archive. We also installed a whole server stack with tape backups and built an archival digital repository using our MEMAT technology. Creative Spark was also pulled in to assist with project management and with building the ANC Archive public website.

Paul Weinberg kindly took this photo of me (David Larsen) presenting on Digitising the ANC Archive at the INA-Doxa conference on audio-visual archives. PHOTO: Paul Weinberg

I got to present the story of the project at the International Conference on Liberation Archives in East London in October and at the INA-Doxa audiovisual archives event in Cape Town in November. You can watch the full presentation here.

The Africa Media Online IT team has built the ANC Digital Archive research site. Once it is launched researchers will be able to make application for access.

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The Digital Campus at Michaelhouse

Jan 31st, 2013 by David Larsen

I am thrilled to announce that in April this year we will be hosting The Digital Campus at Michaelhouse in the beautiful KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

For some years now we have been trying to conceive of a festival of digital training based in a beautiful but contained space. When we began to interact with Michaelhouse school in terms of digitising their archive, I thought this is the ideal place. When we ran the Heritage Digital Campus last year at University of Fort Hare, I was amazed at how many people came from around the Eastern Cape and all over the country to what is quite a remote spot. You are clearly prepared to travel for quality training. And Michaelhouse is that much more accessible!

The feedback we had from that event was, “we want more over a longer period of time.”

So we have listened to that and from April 2 to April 13 we will be running a supercharged Heritage Digital Campus in parallel with our Shutha Digital Campus and a documentary festival.

More details will follow shortly but I wanted to give you the “heads up” to book the first two weeks of April and be ready to travel to the beautiful KwaZulu-Natal midlands for a festival of training in building a digital archive that will last for generations.

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Invitation to Heritage Digital Campus in the Eastern Cape in March

Feb 16th, 2012 by David Larsen

DIGITISATION TRAINING FOR HERITAGE PRACTITIONERS – SIGN UP BY MARCH 5, 2012

I am thrilled to be able to invite you once again to our Heritage Digital Campus which we have run successfully in different parts of South Africa since 2005. This year it is the turn of the Eastern Cape.

Digitisation of collections is gaining momentum in South Africa on many levels. Now, more than ever, it is critical for the custodians of heritage collections to clearly understand the issues not just in running a digitisation project, but in building a digital archive.

It is for this reason that Africa Media Online has gathered a group of both local and international experts to give heritage practitioners the essential framework and base understanding upon which to evaluate options and make wise choices about the digital future of their collections as well as the technical skills and awareness of standards to ensure they build a quality digital archive.

Those giving the training will include UK based digital imaging consultant Graeme Cookson who will give an introduction to the digital world and teach an in-depth class on working with digital images. A brilliant trainer, he has enjoyed packed out classes in the past. He was also a co-author of the Shutha.org online resource creating the Digital Imaging course. Patricia Liebetrau formerly of Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) will be teaching a class on the digitisation of documents. Alastair Mason from the Visual History Archive and Doxa Productions is an expert in video digitisation and there are a limited number of places in his track focusing on the digitisation of video. And I will be giving input on the 10 processes involved in building a digital archive as well as running a workshop on sustaining a digital archive.

Above: UK based Digital Imaging Consultant, Graeme Cookson teaching a masterclass during the 2009 Heritage Digital Campus held at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. PHOTO: David Larsen

What is really unique about this training is that it will take place against the backdrop of a large-scale digitisation project. Together with our digitisation partners Visual History Archive and the International Library of African Music we are engaged in a large-scale digitisation project at the University of Fort Hare. The project involves the digitisation of documents, images, video and audio collections providing a unique training opportunity. It is for this reason the Heritage Digital Campus will be run at the Alice campus University of Fort Hare during the week of March 12-16 at the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) and will involve training modules in the digitisation of documents, still images and video.

Space is limited so we would encourage you to book early. There is an early bird discount for bookings before Friday 24th February 2012:
Download the Heritage Digital Campus 2012 course outline
Download Heritage Digital Campus 2012 Booking Form v2

I look forward to seeing you at the Heritage Digital Campus.

Tags: Africa Media Online, Alastair Mason, David A. Larsen, David Larsen, Doxa Productions, Graeme Cookson, Heritage Digital Campus, ILAM, International Library of African Music, NAHECS, National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre, Patricia Liebetrau, University of Fort Hare, Visual History Archive

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For Future Generations – Hugh Tracey and ILAM Exhibition in CT

Feb 16th, 2012 by David Larsen

VISIT THE ILAM EXHIBITION AT THE CASTLE IN CAPE TOWN – CLOSES MARCH 31, 2012

The International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University has created a traveling exhibition of the work of its founder, Hugh Tracey , and his son, Andrew Tracey. The exhibition includes sound recordings, film, multimedia, instruments and photographs. Hugh Tracey was a pioneer researcher of African music. He conducted field trips into east, central and southern Africa from as early as 1929. During these trips he collected recordings of African musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Moçambique.

Part of what has delighted us about the exhibition at Africa Media Online is our involvement with pictures in the exhibition. In the last quarter of 2007 we digitised the whole ILAM picture archive – over 10,000 images at archival standard – and we created an online digital repository for the ILAM images and represent the images to publishers and broadcasters on Africa Media Online. It is the best of these images that have been printed for the exhibition.

The exhibition is currently at Iziko in Cape Town at the William Fehr Collection at the Castle of Good Hope where the 2011 World Press Photo exhibition is also on display. So it is worth a visit. More details about the exhibition can be found here.

Above: Hugh Tracey pioneer researcher of African Music and founder of the International Library of African Music. PHOTO: International Library of African Music/Africa Media Online

Tags: Andrew Tracey, ethnomusicology, Hugh Tracey, ILAM, International Library of African Music, Iziko Museums of Cape Town

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