{"id":7379,"date":"2013-01-29T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:06:56","slug":"digitising-malis-cultural-heritage-simon-tanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/01\/digitising-malis-cultural-heritage-simon-tanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitising Mali&#8217;s cultural heritage \u2014 Simon Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Tanner has a blog post on his experience of working with various manuscript collections and the tragic destruction of potentially thousands of manuscripts from the New Ahmed Baba Institute building in Mali: &#8220;I have worked with manuscripts for over 20 years now; as a librarian, academic and as a consultant helping others to digitise their collections. I have worked in Africa with various libraries and archives for over 10 years. [..] Africa is a continent that has been wracked by the three horsemen of the manuscript conservationists nightmares: war, pestilence and natural disaster.&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/african-manuscripts-treasure-in-danger.html\" title=\"http:\/\/simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/african-manuscripts-treasure-in-danger.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/african-manuscripts-treasure-in-danger.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Tanner has a blog post on his experience of working with various manuscript collections and the tragic destruction of potentially thousands of manuscripts from the New Ahmed Baba Institute building in Mali: &#8220;I have worked with manuscripts for over 20 years now; as a librarian, academic and as a consultant helping others to digitise &#8230; <a title=\"Digitising Mali&#8217;s cultural heritage \u2014 Simon Tanner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/01\/digitising-malis-cultural-heritage-simon-tanner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Digitising Mali&#8217;s cultural heritage \u2014 Simon Tanner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,9,61,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-archiving","category-digital-humanities","category-digitisation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}