Noosrat Hossain

Problem Statement

The UCT Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) has successfully digitized the artefacts contained in three cultural heritage archives and has stored them on local hard drives. Thus, the information is inaccessible to scholars, artists, researchers and community members outside of the CCA. Not only are the artefacts inaccessible, but they also lack information such as rich description fields.
Solving these problems will create awareness of minority groups in Cape Town and encourage public contribution, making the collections richer in content.

Objectives

  • Enable public contribution
  • Improve quality of archive content
  • Provide simple analysis of archive
  • Provide personal experience of archive
about-me

Noosrat Hossain


Email:

hssnoo003@myuct.ac.za

Components:

Downloads Service
Annotations Service
Maps Service

Services

The following archival services were implemented as a part of the Three Archives project


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Maps

location based browsing by placing from the archive on a map in the location they were captured.

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Annotations

Allows user contribution in the form of tagging.

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Downloads

Allows users to save items of interest while browsing then given the oppor-tunity to bulk download.


Development Overview

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