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IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions Digital Archive: Digitizing isiXhosa texts from 1870-1914

Schoots, Jonathan LU ; Ngwendu, Amandla ; de Wet, Jacques and Muftic, Sanjin (2023) p.54-64
Abstract
This article offers an overview of the IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions Digital Archive, which hosts digitized texts and images of early isiXhosa newspapers and books from 1870-1914. The archive offers new opportunities for a range of research across multiple fields, and responds to debates around the importance of African intellectual traditions and their indigenous language sources in generating African social sciences which is contextually relevant. We outline the content and context of these materials and offer qualitative and quantitative details with the aim of providing an overview for interested scholars and a reference for those using the archive.
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Xhosa, Newspaper, Archive, Digital Archive
host publication
Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)
editor
Mabuya, Rooweither ; Mthobela, Don ; Setaka, Mmasibidi and Van Zaanen, Menno
pages
54 - 64
publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI
10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.7
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English
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  author       = {{Schoots, Jonathan and Ngwendu, Amandla and de Wet, Jacques and Muftic, Sanjin}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)}},
  editor       = {{Mabuya, Rooweither and Mthobela, Don and Setaka, Mmasibidi and Van Zaanen, Menno}},
  keywords     = {{Xhosa; Newspaper; Archive; Digital Archive}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{54--64}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computational Linguistics}},
  title        = {{IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions Digital Archive: Digitizing isiXhosa texts from 1870-1914}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.7}},
  doi          = {{10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.7}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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