HERIPORT - A National Heritage Portal Built From Metadata Aggregation

Digital heritage portals have recently been introduced with the purpose of preserving and accessing historical information. Heritage portals that encompass archives from various external sources have been implemented internationally for projects such as the Europeana project, but this has not yet been developed for South African heritage archives. This project, therefore, aimed to create the first central low-cost local heritage portal encompassing multiple local archives, using metadata harvesting via the Open Archive Interface Protocol Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The system was divided up into three respective components: The Data Provider Interfaces, The Harvester and The Web Portal.