Ibali Iindaba: Launch of UCT | Community Media Trust AIDS Archive Online
For almost thirty years, the Community Media Trust has been documenting the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the grassroots struggle for treatment in South Africa. The University of Cape Town has made a selection of this unique film collection available online as the UCT | Community Media Trust AIDS Archive.
The Archive provides an important historical record of the Treatment Action Campaign’s resistance to the government’s AIDS denialism. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was founded in December 1998 to campaign for access to AIDS treatment. It is widely acknowledged as one of the most important civil society organisations active on AIDS in the developing world. In 2006, the New York Times called the TAC ‘the world’s most effective AIDS group’, while the founding director of UNAIDS, Dr Peter Piot, has written that ‘TAC was in my opinion the smartest activist group of all, worldwide’.
At the launch we will be speaking to members of the Community Media Trust about their experience in documenting the Archive as well as showcasing the collection that was built on our Omeka S showcasing website Ibali.
Join us for the ongoing "silent" launch of our new Digital Collections platform, powered by Omeka and IIIF. We will talk with the curators of the various collections as we grow our institutional website.
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- Date:
- Wednesday 13 October 2021
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Africa Time (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- All
- Categories:
- DLS events
Digital Library Services (DLS) will be launching a university-wide showcase website for digital collections, Ibali, powered by Omeka S. Currently in the developing and testing phase, Ibali is part of a UCT Libraries drive to nurture an Open Access space where institutional collections can be created, curated, published and showcased. Together with the UCT's community of data stewards, we are building our own GLAM Lab.
Omeka S is a web publishing platform for GLAMs (Galleries | Libraries | Archives | Museums), designed to create relationships between objects in collections as well as describe them through linked open data resources on the internet. The ‘S’ in Omeka S stands for ‘semantic’, as in connecting to the semantic web, where data in web pages is structured and tagged. Its primary focus is on organizing elements of a collection such that the links in between items and the greater elements of the internet are strengthened, allowing for much more relevant searches and deeper explorations.
A digital collection showcase on Ibali will allow users to experience their own ‘stories’ by navigating the links between items and through collections. With its campus-wide launch, members of the UCT community will be able to organize their own collections, build their own linkages, and publish them as shared stories. DLS will provide support and training as well as guidance throughout the process for data stewards building collections.
As part of preparing for the launch, DLS is running monthly workshop sessions. Each session has its own theme and will focus on a different aspect of the Omeka S software. This will give participants an opportunity to get familiar with the new Ibali platform from using it to building sites of collections.
