We are delighted to announce that AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions) and ALMEDA have formalised a collaboration in which ALMEDA will create an online course for AfLIA members titled ‘From Collections to Data Publications: a workflow for Librarians and Archivists’. The course aims to train librarians and archivists to publish datasets on materials of interest in their collections that are not captured in their cataloguing system. By publishing metadata about these collections as Open Data, the course aims to enable better accessibility of local collections.
A further ambition of the MoU is to collaborate on the development of an AI tool for enabling metadata creation on digitised assets.
Ashleigh Harris will present ALMEDA’s work with ‘Messy Data’ at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen at 15:00 on 6 May 2026. Abstract: A significant portion of African Literature and expressive cultures – from the late 19th century to the present – has been produced as print, audio, video,…
Join us for a talk by Ashleigh Harris on the ways in which the ALMEDA project uses Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to create sustainable data on African Literature and expressive culture.
We are delighted to invite you to this symposium, which focuses on the ways in which audiovisual archives and film historiography in African and diasporic contexts are entangled with one another. Bringing together film and screen media scholars, filmmakers, curators, and archivists, the symposium will explore the impact of…
Join us for a symposium organised by ALMEDA postdoctoral fellow, Gloria Ajami Makokha, on the ‘Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa’.