The schools help to:
Establish the scientific presence of African Universities on the Internet
Provide scientific and educational content
Extend contacts to other fields of science and further partners
Provide training in setting up and operating institutional e-repositories
Objectives of the school are to become familiar with all principles related to open access and open knowledge, and also with practical solutions for setting up and running digital libraries.
Programme covers the following topics:
- Installation and configuration of an open source digital library
- Introduction to web technologies
- Introduction to information retrieval (IR)
- Open access principles
- Operation of institutional repositories
- Maintenance and upgrade of digital libraries