Ria Olivier

Ria Olivier is co-investigator, project manager and digital archivist of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Stellenbosch University; sponsored by National Research Foundation, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa as part of the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP).

Research projects / interests:

• Archiving heritage material of South Africans in Antarctica and Sub-Antarctic Islands.
• Marine and Antarctic Research Strategy (MARS) committee, with specific involvement:
  • one of the thematic (vertical) areas : Human Enterprise
  • the following six cross-cutting (horizontal) support interventions :
    • Public awareness and engagement
    • Data management
• SA representative at Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), SCAR.
• SA representative at Standing Committee on Humanities and social Sciences (SC-HASS), SCAR.
• SCHASS representative for humanities and social science data at SCADM.
• Member of Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NEDICC), South Africa.
• Member of LIASA linked to IFLA.
• Establishing digital/virtual museums of South Africa Antarctic Involvement for all communities of South Africa.
• Research on information management.

Websites:

• www.antarcticlegacy.org
• www.sanap.ac.za
• Digital repository

Keywords: Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Heritage, Archives, South Africa, Sub-Antarctic, Digitising, Museums, Awareness, Project Management.