Support ticket

Thanks - no worries..

>>> NANCY CLOETE 04/12/2012 14:27 >>>
Hi Nic
Just added you so you could see comments on web site etc. you can liaise with Dumisani.
txs

>>> Nicholas Wiltshire 2012/12/04 02:09 PM >>>
Hi Nancy - thanks for forwarding this on. We certainly have ways to handle intangible heritage recordings on SAHRIS in the pipeline but it would be best for Menan to come and see us so that we have a better idea of how much, in what format and what aspirations she has for the data. I've been careful in these early days to keep the focus on sites and objects and related information but perhaps we can initiate the broader plan with DAC on recording oral history and language through something like SAHRIS if there is nothing in place already.

Dumisani - would you like me to invite her to SAHRA to hear more about her project?
Kind regards
Nic

>>> NANCY CLOETE 04/12/2012 13:43 >>>
Dear Dumisani, please see email which came in via info@sahra.org.zafor your response and/or delegation to appropriate HRM unit.

Regards
Nancy

>>> Menan Du Plessis <menan.du.plessis@gmail.com> 2012/12/04 09:55 AM >>>
Dear SAHRA,

Thank you so much for your tremendous initiatives and the really beautiful and user-friendly new website. This is just a small query, to find out whether there is any possibility that you might at some point consider expanding your brief to include certain aspects of our intangible heritage?

The reason I am asking is that I have recently obtained recordings from two of the last two or three speakers of Kora (also known as !Ora or Korana), which is a Khoekhoe language of South Africa related to Nama and other varieties of Namibian Khoekhoe. Although I have been affiliated to the University of Cape Town for the past three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, I was unable to obtain local funding for the specific purpose of carrying out the extremely urgent fieldwork that was involved. Fortunately, however, and only just in time, I was able to obtain a grant from the Endangered Language Documentation Programme (EDLP) at SOAS in London. I have just this week submitted my final report to SOAS. and am currently in the process of preparing our material for archiving with the Electronic Language Archive (ELAR), which is also at SOAS.

One of the requirements of the overseas funder, and also the wish of myself and my co-workers - some of whom are members of the relevant community - is that we should make a second archival deposit in our own country, preferably somewhere reasonably close to the community itself. We are currently still struggling to identify a suitable local institution, and very much wish that there was some kind of national repository for such heritage material. Is there any possibility that SAHRA could facilitate or itself host an initiative of this kind in the future?

Thanks again for your terrific work!
With best wishes,
Menan du Plessis (Dr)