Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection with Omeka S
- Title
- Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection with Omeka S
- list of authors
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Frédérick Madore
- Abstract
- en Despite the growing popularity of digital humanities, a limited number of initiatives related to Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa have attempted to mobilize digital tools to analyze and disseminate research data. Launched in 2021, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection (https://islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/s/bf/) is an open-access digital database published by the LibraryPress@UF, which contains more than 3,100 archival materials, newspaper articles, Islamic publications, photographs and bibliographical references related to Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso. “Digital exhibits” with interactive timelines, which include a selection of documents from the database, contextual information for approaching this material and a selective bibliography, serve as entry points for the larger collection. In the medium to long term, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection will be part of a larger collaborative digital database on Islam in West Africa, which will include material that Frédérick Madore has already digitized as part of his research on Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Togo.
- Date
- July 8, 2022
- Is Part Of
- 3rd Annual conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence "Medialities"
- Provenance
- Universität Bayreuth
- Language
- Anglais
- Spatial Coverage
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Burkina Faso
- Identifier
- iwac-reference-0000852
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