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Cultural Artefacts - Online Archives for South African Heritage
1. Ephemera to Artefact -
digital repositories online
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2. what is an artefact?
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3. what is an artefact?
“An object made by a human being, typically something
of cultural or historical interest”
source: wikipedia
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16. Internet Archive
www.archive.org
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Takes Internet content and reclassifies ephemera as
artefact
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17. reduce to one-liner
Internet Archive
• Online archive of the Web
• Free to use for researchers, scholars,
historians
• Takes Internet content and reclassifies
ephemera as artefact
• Any work classified under public domain, or
redistribution licence, like cc.
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18. Archive IT
www.archive-it.org
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23. Pros
• Tech is taken care of
• Scaleable - one to many
• Copyright “free”
• Assured of the longevity of the projects
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24. Cons
• Not much local content
• Ownership and perceptions of ownership
• Language
• Awareness of PD on the Internet is low
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