# Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection with Omeka S

- **Type:** Conference paper
- **Speakers:** Frédérick Madore
- **Event:** 3rd Annual conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence "Medialities"
- **Panel:** The Digital - a challenging solution or solvable challenge?
- **Location:** University of Bayreuth
- **Country:** Germany
- **Date:** 8 July 2022
- **Language:** English
- **Project:** [Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/dh-ai-african-studies.md)
- **Tags:** IWAC, Omeka S, Digital Collections, Islam, Burkina Faso, Digital Humanities, West Africa, Archives
- **Web page:** https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-burkina-faso-collection-omeka-2022

## Abstract

Despite the growing popularity of digital humanities, a limited number of initiatives related to Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa have attempted to mobilize digital tools to analyze and disseminate research data. Launched in 2021, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection (https://islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/s/bf/) is an open-access digital database published by the LibraryPress@UF, which contains more than 3,100 archival materials, newspaper articles, Islamic publications, photographs and bibliographical references related to Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso. “Digital exhibits” with interactive timelines, which include a selection of documents from the database, contextual information for approaching this material and a selective bibliography, serve as entry points for the larger collection. In the medium to long term, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection will be part of a larger collaborative digital database on Islam in West Africa, which will include material that Frédérick Madore has already digitized as part of his research on Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, and Togo.