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Where are your digital media files stored?
Africa Media Online’s MEMAT is a carefully thought-out archival digital repository system from an organisation that has been managing media files for heritage institutions for close to a decade. MEMAT conforms closely to the ISO standard for long term archiving of digital media, the OAIS standard.
Below is a video introduction to MEMAT and the challenge of long-term digital archiving that it provides a solution to. To view the video larger, at the bottom of the video frame either click on the “enter full screen” icon or click on the “watch on Vimeo.com” icon. Click here to download a pdf with full details of what MEMAT offers.
Introduction to MEMAT from Africa Media Online on Vimeo.
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MEMAT Features
Upload files and create galleries to share and showcase images, video and sound files. Customisable designs, powerful search function, tight security. Advanced lightbox features and optional ecommerce. Conforms to International Standards.
Find out more about the features of MEMAT
System Architecture
MEMAT is highly flexible and scalable. Subsystems include a Digital vault, Optical backup server, Metadata manager, Thesaurus manager, Web interface and Application system.
Find out more about MEMAT System architecture
Example sites
MEMAT sites can stand alone or you can add a presentation page to them, you can also opt to integrate MEMAT with your existing site.
View some examples of MEMAT sites
History
The first version of MEMAT was launched in 2001, we have been using and improving the system since then.