Archive and reuse of conference presentations How collaboration in Africa can produce innovation in libraries Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za derek.keats@wits.ac.za

The punch line Choreographed collaboration People Ideas Resources Technologies ...from Africa The punch line

Yonah Seleti asked who is following and planning to use recent advances in technology? Wits is. The 16 Universities of AVOIR are. Not just using, building!

Creating semantic and socially connected archives repositories museums herbaria

A lost resource

AVOIR: An African alliance

We lack the critical mass in Africa to find knowledge-based solutions to the challenges facing us as a continent – unless we collaborate

What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the framework used to build a traditional African house An object-oriented framework for rapid development of distributed software applications

The stack Cross platform jQuery RESTful API Ajax Mashable XMPP Mobile phone Proto type Javascript PEAR PHP MySQL Chisimba GNU/Linux CURL FFmpeg SWF tools Flash gstreamer Open Office RED5 Java Python Open fire Jabber

Developers Tohir Solomons – University of the Western Cape, Cape Town David Wafula – Jomo Kenyatta University of the Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi

Key functionality Upload and inter-convert presentations among different formats Extract content and provide individually for reuse An API and filters enabling reuse of content on other sites Build social network around digital assets Enable use of assets to create real time live conferences with voice, video, slides, annotation tools and back channel chat Connect to back-end repository (e.g. DSPACE)

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