The FHYA and Further Afridig Collaborative Activity

17 Dec 2019
Hut floor drawing from Mike Cronin, "Mgungundlovu" (Honours dissertation, The University of Cape Town, 1975). 
17 Dec 2019


In late October, 2019, the Five Hundred Year Archive project hosted a two-day research visit by their Afridig (African Digital Humanities) partner, Dr. Justine Wintjes, from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum. The visit was part of a larger collaboration designed to explore the possibility of constituting a supra-institutional information- and technology-sharing consortium. (For more on this see http://www.apc.uct.ac.za/news/first-steps)

Wintjes spent the two days familiarising herself with the Five Hundred Year Archive’s Atom-based digital archive, and engaging with the FHYA’s critique of the Atom open source archival software. In the process she used the FHYA to assemble a portfolio of preparatory material for a joint Afridig fieldtrip to the site of King Dingane’s residence, uMgungundlovu, in KZN. See attached photo.