Digital Preservation and Documentation of Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems (Premier Reference Source in Advances in Information Quality and Management)

"The overall objective of this book is to determine how indigenous knowledge can be documented and digitally preserved to benefit indigenous knowledge owners and their communities, and be accessible for future generations. It aims to provide the best practices, innovative strategies, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and empirical research findings regarding digital preservation and documentation of indigenous knowledge systems, worldwide"--

Tlou Maggie Masenya is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at Durban University of Technology, with over seven years of working experience in the field of Information Science, Information Systems and Technology. She holds a PhD in Information Science from University of South Africa (UNISA), specializing in Digital Preservation and completed BA (Information Science), BA (HONS) Information Science and MIT degree at the University of Pretoria. She published articles in peer-reviewed accredited journals and numerous book chapters in IGI Global: International academic publisher. She has presented his work at local and international academic conferences. She is an editor for IGI-Global book entitled "Innovative technologies for enhancing knowledge access in academic libraries". Her areas of expertise encompass ICT for Development (ICT4D), Digital Transformation, Digitization, Digital curation and Preservation, Technopreneurship and Digital entrepreneurship, Cloud Computing, Information and Knowledge Management, Indigenous Knowledge System, Disruptive Technologies and Social networks.