TY - JOUR AU - Lighton Phiri AU - Hussein Suleman PY - 2012/07/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - In Search of Simplicity: Redesigning the Digital Bleek and Lloyd JF - DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology JA - DJLIT VL - 32 IS - 4 SE - Special Issue on Visualising Libraries DO - 10.14429/djlit.32.4.2524 UR - https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/2524 AB - The Digital Bleek and Lloyd is a collection of digitised historical artefacts on the Bushman people ofSouthern Africa. The underlying software was initially designed to enable access from as many people aspossible so usage requirements were minimal – it was not even necessary to use a web server or database.However, the system was not focused on preservation, extensibility, or reusability. In this article, it is arguedthat such desirable attributes could manifest themselves in a natural evolution of the Bleek and Lloyd softwaresystem in the direction of greater simplicity. A case study demonstrates that this is indeed feasible in the caseof the Digital Bleek and Lloyd and potentially more generally applicable in digital libraries.http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.32.4.2524 ER -