Hints and tips for running your own heritage digitising event
Nov 22nd, 2007 6:50 pm – 0 comment
On 23 September, the day before South Africa’s national public holiday, Heritage Day, iCommons organised an event to celebrate the diversity of our people’s backgrounds and cultures. The aim was simple – to build an online repository of South African culture and heritage – as lived in the day-to-day lives of ordinary South Africans, to be added to the growing collection of indigenous...
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iHeritage content sprint
Oct 09th, 2007 5:06 pm – 0 comment
The day dawned early and cool on 26 September for iCommons staff having promised to meet one another at the office at 7am to help carry equipment down to the Rosebank Shopping Mall where our scanning station was going to be set up.
By 9am we had the stand set up, laptops locked and plugged in, data projector in place and we were ready to go ... except that the data projector...
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How To Upload to WikiMedia Commons
Sep 17th, 2007 7:46 pm – 2 comments
Loading content onto Wikimedia Commons is not difficult. But you do need to follow a few important steps at the beginning. By doing this, not only will ensure that your work goes into the right place and is easy to find; you’ll also familiarise yourself with the Wikimedia process and style which will make each upload easier.
Step 1 – Create and Account
To create an account,...
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To set up a scanning/ audio station at local Mall where people are invited to bring multimedia heritage materials to upload into wikimedia commons
This promises to be an awesome event - not only because we'll have volunteers creating and sharing stories about the city...
This will also provide to the public an opportunity to embrace whatever it is that they regard as their heritage, and at...
I love the idea of a growing cultural heritage and these sorts of things work best when there are many collections of local...
