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At Africa Media Online, we operate a ‘digital trade route’ designed to help you bring your analogue or digital collections from their current storage to the audiences you want to reach, whether locally or globally. Established in March 2000 we have been on the leading edge of the digital revolution in the heritage sector in South Africa ever since, undertaking more than 500 successful digitisation and digital archiving projects including some of the largest undertaken in the country. We can help you strategise about your collections, appraise your archive, cost its arrangement and digitisation, apply archival arrangement, metadata capture and cataloguing to your collection, do the actual digitisation of your collections for you in a non-destructive preservation-quality way that conforms to international standards, train you in digitisation and building a digital archive, if you want to build your own digitisation unit we can supply you with specialist digitisation equipment and digital archiving systems, setup and host your digital archive in the cloud, support you in reaching your audience with your collections and even represent appropriate parts of your collection to various markets including licensing to publishers and broadcasters on your behalf through our sister company African Pictures. So we can help you at any point on the journey of getting your collections from your cupboard to the audience you want to reach. And we will do so with loads of enthusiasm and real care!