1. 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

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

3. 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!

4. Creating semantic and socially connected archives repositories museums herbaria

5. A lost resource

9. AVOIR: An African alliance

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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)

17. Go to site...

18. Attribution file: http://www. dkeats
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