District 6 Museum

About

The ‘Hands Off District Six’ conference of 1988 led to the formation of the District Six Museum Foundation in 1989. The Foundation worked towards the establishment of the Museum which was launched on 10 December 1994 with its inaugural exhibition called Streets: Retracing District Six.

https://www.districtsix.co.za/

  • See GLAM’s intro here

Challenges:

Remote access to archive and collection, changing business models, sustainability, education of staff to actively take steps to digitization, policy for the digital transformation of archive and collection, access to talent, implementing digital transformation, developing the correct naming convention for digital artifacts.

Data set available:

The museum has digitized quite a number of images in it’s archive, but not all of it - we digitized as needed. Some material, like AV documentation of project work and oral history interviews, are born digital. We have a number of oral history transcripts at our disposal.

Click here to access the archive.

The above dataset is licensed under

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Problem statement

Creating access to archive through curated project content. Creating access /use of archive in online educational game.

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