DigitalNZ is all about making New Zealand digital content easier to find, share and use. That content doesn't have to be *in* New Zealand though. In fact we're really keen to talk to any international organisations that have collections of New Zealand related content. We use the Powerhouse Museum and Museums Victoria excellent APIs to harvest their New Zealand related metadata. National Library of Australia is also a content partner and we also added the Victoria and Albert Museum's small but...
The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive launched its new search service this week. CEISMIC is working to avoid fragmentation of records and stories about the earthquakes from different people, and now behold their great new federated search function. It's powered by DigitalNZ, and pulls in amazing material from across various partners in more useful and meaningful ways.
The website helps partners share with each other, and you, for a better research and memory gathering...
The spotlight shines again, this time on a recently added collection of beautiful digital content from the University of Otago Library's Hocken Collections!
The Hocken Collections is a library collection of national significance. The Collections include books, ephemera, posters, newspapers, journals, music, maps, and heaps more on the history and culture of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica. There is a special emphasis on the Otago and Southland regions of New Zealand....
Tauranga City Libraries contribute digital content to DigitalNZ from their online digital 'knowledge basket' called Tauranga Memories. The aim of the site is to capture the spirit of Tauranga through the community's contribution of personal stories, photographs, video and audio footage.
A real highlight of Tauranga Memories is the content that documents and reflects on the grounding of...
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has just launched a competition for secondary schools students (Years 9-13) focusing on a theme of 'Safer Journeys for Teens'. The competition encourages the creative re-use of content and data from the NZTA websites and publications.
The incredibly popular 'Legend' advert is just one example of the content available for remixing in the competition.
In addition to creating a remix or mashup, students will have to provide evidence that they...
Here at DigitalNZ HQ, we're constantly adding new content from amazing digital collections around New Zealand (and the world!). With over 25 million items already available through the DigitalNZ search site, we thought it'd be useful to highlight various content partners and their awesome contributions!
It's our last week of work here at DigitalNZ headquarters, and we're busy tying up loose ends and eating way too much chocolate. We thought we'd make our last blogpost of 2011 a fun romp through some of the team's favourite images in DigitalNZ.
Woman modelling Daphne lingerie
Woman modelling Daphne lingerie. K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives. Ref: 1/2-211738-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22872947
2011 has been a mighty big year for Team DigitalNZ.
One of the biggest achievements, (though hidden to most) was a complete overhaul of our technical infrastructure to improve performance and set DigitalNZ up for major growth. This was a very big and important job and that fact that you probably haven't noticed it is a very good thing.
