At the time of its publication, Huisgenoot magazine was regarded as a cultural magazine covering history, literature, biographies and art. People relied on magazines and newspapers as sources of information. Huisgenoot is currently indexed with the Index to South African Periodicals (ISP) but there is no online fulltext version available. This makes it hard for the public to access the publications because there are a lot of channels to follow to reach ISP. Digitising Huisgenoot publications and making them available on the University of Pretoria Institutional Repository will make them accessible to the public. The University of Pretoria Library Services regards Huisgenoot as a priority project due to the value of the content of the publications.
1. Phyllis: What is the project about?
Lidia: The project is about the Huisgenoot magazines, from the year 1916, to about 1980.
2. Phyllis: When did you start with it?
Lidia: The scanning of the magazines started end 2007, but the magazines need to be edited to a web-publishing format.
3. Phyllis: Who will be funding the project?
Lidia: At the moment the digitization office is looking at Media 24 to be the possible funders of the project, but it is still going to be negotiated.
4. Phyllis: What are the different phases in this project?
Lidia: First, all the magazines must be scanned. Then a data list is made, where we keep statistics of the project, and each book. The next step is the derivation of the scanned material, and the final step in our office is to then PDF the final images into an OCR’ed document.
5. Phyllis: What is the outcome that you are hoping for?
Lidia: We are hoping that Media 24 will agree to fund the project, so that it can be completed at the University of Pretoria in order for our institution to host the material on more than one platform, for instance, on the library institutional repository as well as on the Media 24 platform
6. Phyllis: Thank you for your time Lidia
Lidia: It's a pleasure Phyllis Below is a link to the voice recording from the interview in mp3 format
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