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BELOW ARE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN IN RECENT YEARS:

2014

  • Creation of the Michael Cassidy & Friends digital archive for African Enterprise, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Audit of digital archive for Michaelhouse, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Digitisation of “The Hiltonian” magazine and “The Witness” photographic collection and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Hilton College, Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Digitisation of a selection of school magazines for Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool (Affies), Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of a selection of school magazines and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Pretoria Boys High School, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of photographic collection and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Wits University School of Mining Engineering, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

2013

  • Audit of archive for Unilever South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Digitisation of over 6,000 museum objects from KZN Museum Services, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Audit of digital collections of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of a selection of school magazines for Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool (Affies), Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of school magazines and photographs and the set up of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Rondebosch Boys High School, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Stellenbosch University Institutional Advancement, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Earthstock photo library, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Audit of archive and digitisation of school magazines for Roedean School (SA), Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of school magazines and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for St Albans College, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Audit of archive and digitisation of the majority of the Michaelhouse archive, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa
  • Audit of archive and digitisation of school magazines and photographs and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for St Anne’s College, Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Digitisation of the Eric Leslie Edmonds collection of historic photographs of concentration camps during World War II, Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2012

  • Digitisation of school magazines, marketing material and photographs and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Roedean School (SA), Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Digitisation of school magazines and registers and the setup of a MEMAT archival digital repository system for Jeppe Boys High School, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa partially funded by Ancestry24
  • Digitisation of school magazines, registers and minute books from St Andrew’s Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa partially funded by Ancestry24
  • Digitisation of school magazines 1896 – 2010 and photographs for Michaelhouse, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa including a web interface for the MEMAT archival digital repository system for presenting the digitised material online on the Michaelhouse Archives website.
  • Digitisation of a photographic collection from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum Services, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2011-2012

  • Digitisation of the ANC Archive at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape including over 24,000 document pages and 20,000 photographic images and the supply of our MEMAT digital repository system to manage the digitised collection including video and sound files

2011

  • Creation of Shutha, a free online resource for professional photographers in the Majority World to enhance competitiveness. The project formed part of the Twenty Ten project with funding from the Dutch Postcode Lottery via World Press Photo

2009-2011

  • Heading up the team that wrote best practices section of the National Policy on the Digitisation of Heritage Resources for South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture known as Annexure 5: Digital Heritage Body of Knowledge (DHBOK), Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

2010

2009-2010

2008-2009

  • African Image Pipeline project funded by the European Union through the Gijima KZN project of the Department of Economic Development in KZN including the digitisation of 24,000 images from museums, archives and private collections in South Africa including from Albany Museum, Bailey’s African History Archive, Corey Library at Rhodes University, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Klerksdorp Museum, Ladysmith Siege Museum, McGregor Museum in Kimberly, Museum Africa, National Museum in Bloemfontein, Northern Flagship Institution, Piper Collection from the University of Fort Hare, The Best of South from the South Photographs collection
  • Digitisation of collections from the South African History Archive at Wits University, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

2008

2007-2008

2006-2007

  • Digitisation of photographic collections from Bailey’s African History Archive, PhotoAccess, and photographers: Benny Gool, Louise Gubb, Eric Miller

2005-2006

  • Digitisation of 60,000 images as part of Guy Stubbs photographic archive

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES BY MANAGING DIRECTOR, DAVID LARSEN

2013

  • “Digitising the ANC Archives: Unity in Diversity,” 77th South African Museums Association National Conference, 22-24 October 2013, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • ‘An Analysis of Threats to Digital Media and Cost Effective Solutions’, South African Museums Association KZN Branch conference, museum professionals, Talana Museum, Dundee, South Africa

2008

2007

2006

2005

  • ‘Museums and Markets’, seminar at South African Museums Association national conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  • ‘An African Perspective’, Imaging Famine, leading Aid agencies in the UK, London, UK,

2004

2003

REFERENCES TO AFRICA MEDIA ONLINE IN THE MEDIA April 2011

November 2010

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