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Africa PID Alliance
A community of PID enthusiasts in and from Africa aiming to realize a FAIR sharing of access to data
Africa PID Alliance and University of Lagos Partner to Strengthen Research Visibility Through Digital Infrastructure through DOCiD™️![]()
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What did African self-representation on television look like before conflict rewrote the archive? For Liberia, we now have an answer.![]()
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The ELTV collection of the Liberian Broadcasting System, covering 1980 to 1991, is live on DOCiD™. Drawn from over 1,200 U-Matic tapes and digitised in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth and Filmstube Berlin, the collection offers scholars rare, unmediated access to Liberian-produced television: news, religion, education, sport, talk shows, and fiction, including the celebrated comedy Malawala Balawala![]()
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For historians, ethnographers, and media scholars working on West Africa, the archive fills a documentary void left by two civil wars. It is a record of a society that almost lost its own image of itself. Now it doesn't have to.![]()
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Explore the collection at: docid.africapidalliance.org/docid/20.500.14351%2Fcb69e80b6183a422e#docidD#AfricanArchivesh#LiberianHistorys#africanmediaM#DigitalHeritageitage
Who owns our knowledge and how do we ensure it's trusted, discoverable and responsibly governed?![]()
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These are some of the questions we'll explore during our upcoming webinar with TWAS, AfLIA, and the Africa PID Alliance.![]()
Discover how DOCiD™ is supporting FAIR and CARE implementation while strengthening research infrastructure and Indigenous Knowledge stewardship.![]()
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📅 21 September 2026![]()
🕒 3:00 PM EAT | 2:00 PM CAT | 1:00 PM WAT | 12:00 PM GMT![]()
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🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Lv-q58DhQVutOU#docidf#opensciencep#ResearchIntegrityh#IndigenousKnowledgesKnowledge
🎥 The Recording Is Out!![]()
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Missed the OPAR Open Science Webinar with Joy Owango on DOCiD™ and the future of connected, trusted and globally discoverable African research?![]()
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The recording is now available! 🌍![]()
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▶️ Watch the recording and discover how DOCiD™ can strengthen research visibility, discoverability and connections across Africa’s research ecosystem.![]()
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Don’t miss it, watch now!
🌍 Building Africa’s Trusted Research Infrastructure: From Fragmented Repositories to Connected Research with DOCiD™![]()
Africa’s research output is growing, but much of this knowledge remains distributed across institutional repositories, disconnected systems, and platforms that do not always communicate with one another.![]()
How can we move from fragmented repositories to a connected, trusted, and interoperable African research ecosystem?![]()
Join us for an upcoming session in the Open Pan-African Repository (OPAR) Open Webinar Series, hosted by the Ubuntu Alliance, as we explore how DOCiD™ (Digital Object Container Identifier) can help strengthen Africa’s research infrastructure.![]()
The webinar ubuntunet.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3aBcTlo0QE2_Td7q8zuKqA#/registration will explore how DOCiD™ can support:![]()
🔹 Connecting institutional repositories, researchers, institutions, and research outputs![]()
🔹 Improving the discoverability and visibility of African research![]()
🔹 Strengthening persistent identification and interoperability across research systems![]()
🔹 Connecting research outputs with researchers, institutions, projects, grants, datasets, and other scholarly assets![]()
🔹 Bringing greater visibility to outputs that are often underrepresented in traditional scholarly infrastructure![]()
🔹 Supporting trusted, machine-actionable research infrastructure aligned with Open Science principles![]()
🔹 Building an increasingly connected African research ecosystem while strengthening interoperability with global research infrastructure![]()
This conversation is particularly relevant for librarians, repository managers, researchers, research managers, NRENs, ICT professionals, university leaders, Open Science practitioners, and research infrastructure partners.![]()
Africa does not simply need more repositories. We need infrastructure that enables our repositories and research systems to connect, communicate, and make African knowledge more visible, discoverable, and reusable.![]()
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #ResearchInfrastructure #DOCiD #OPAR #UbuntuAlliance #PersistentIdentifiers #InstitutionalRepositories #AfricanResearch #ResearchVisibility #ScholarlyCommunication #FAIRData