Overview of content related to 'born digital' http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/2914/all?article-type=&term=&organisation=&project=&author=heila%20pienaar&issue= RSS feed with Ariadne content related to specified tag en South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar#author1">Martie van Deventer</a> and <a href="/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar#author2">Heila Pienaar</a> provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>Knowledge exchange is critical for development. 'Bridging the knowledge divide' does not only refer to the North-South divide. It also refers to the divide between richer and poorer countries within the same region as well as to the divide between larger and smaller organisations within one country. Lastly it refers to the divide between those individuals who have access to an environment that allows for rapid knowledge creation and those less fortunate.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue55 feature article heila pienaar martie van deventer andrew w mellon foundation arl eifl google ifla university of pretoria opendoar sherpa unisa archives authentication bibliographic data born digital content management copyright data database digital library digital preservation digital repositories digitisation dissemination dspace dublin core e-research e-science electronic theses eprints fedora commons framework google scholar higher education ict infrastructure institutional repository knowledge management metadata open access open source portal portfolio preservation repositories research software standards video wiki Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000 editor 1386 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk