Aims and objectives
EAP aims at digitising Districts Administration Reports that were created during the Nyasaland era, this is between 1891 and 1964 and relocate physical copies to National Archives of Malawi for safe custody. 1891 to 1964 is the period when the country was under colonial rule. Activities in the project will include training, assessment of the records, transferring of the records and digitisation. Reports targeted in this project are important to scholars, historian and the general public who are interested in districts administration of Malawi during colonial era.
Outcomes
The project planned the following activities: training, assessment of the records, transferring the records and digitisation. All of these activities were done. Training imparted skills to members of the staff of the National Archives on how to assess the condition of the records, take care of fragile records, and how to digitise records in the appropriate format. Transferring helped relocating the physical records to a safe storage facility, that is, the National Archives. Digitsation provided a means of converting the physical recoards into digital format as a means of preservation and enabling access.
