May in Aotearoa means NZ Music Month! Share some homegrown musical love with us by creating your next set to a tune.
Simply represent any Kiwi song in a DigitalNZ set, and tell us the name of the song in the title or description. Tweet, Facebook or email the link to us by 6pm Friday 17th May and be in to win a $50 iTunes voucher.
Our friendly music specialists at the National Library of New Zealand are all geared up to pick the winner on 22nd May.
To get started
DigitalNZ is a proud organiser of this year's Mix & Mash: The New Storytelling. We're joining our friends at Creative Commons Aotearoa and the National Library to bring you a three-part program of remix and mashup greatness. The first submission window is officially open!
You have until 10 May 2013 to submit a compelling story for prizes and publicity. It must must remix or mashup New Zealand open content or data and tell us something entertaining, useful, and/or beautiful about the...
Searching on DigitalNZ just got a whole lot better. Now when we show you image results they are tiled down the page in a continuously loading stream.
Tiling items together helps eyes focus on the visual aspect of the records, rather than just the title or descriptive information. We hope that the useful and beautiful items you're looking for jump out easily now. It's a visually exquisite way of exploring the collections from our 120+ content...
Season’s greetings! Christmas is just round the corner! The year of 2013 is also getting closer.
Our Scrum Christmas tree and presents festively display all the tasks we've completed this year. It was full year and the results are satisfying.
Thank you to all our 120+ Content Partners for helping us make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use.
We will see you next year with more exciting DigitalNZ developments.
Have a wonderful and safe holiday everyone!
In August we listed the top fifty most visited sets in celebration of having 500 of them tucked away. Now there are over 1600 public sets out there so here is the top 50 list take two...
5. Come hither
6. Te Atatu - newcomer
7. Woman on left, leaning on table
8. Foot Models
9. First World War Newspaper Timeline
10. The Irish In Nz
11. ...
DigitalNZ is proudly announcing this week that we are partnering with Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand to bring you Mix & Mash again in 2013!
Mix & Mash comprised of large multi-category competitions in 2010 and 2011, then 2012 was a year of supporting other organisations to run their own remix or mashup initiatives. Next year will be all about "The New Storytelling" using open New Zealand content. Instead of one large...
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Green Gecko (Naultinus elegans) (CC BY-NC)
Just under an hour's drive north from Wellington City is Nga Manu Nature Reserve. The 13 hectare site is the largest single remaining remanent of original coastal lowland swamp forest on the Kapiti Coast. Inhabitants are Kiwi, Tuatara, Gecko, Skinks, Wetas, Morepork, Tui, Kereru and many other scaly, furry or feathered friends. The grounds are covered with over 700 different species of native trees and plants.
This winter, we took part in a fun digital citizenship symposium with the year 9s at Samuel Marsden Collegiate. It's all about safety, community, respect and ethics for growing up with modern technology.
The umbrella of digital citizenship tends to encompass privacy, online profile awareness, safety, digital security, cyber bullying, netiquette, the law, access and media literacy. Samuel Marsden organised two days of conference style workshops and activities, and a third...
It's been 58 days since we launched the Sets function on our site. This morning we arrived to find that more than 500 individual, publicly listed sets have been lovingly created. (The 500th is about Sir Graham Henry)
After a rummage through online records, people like to make sets that are:
We recently made a series of changes to the technology that powers DigitalNZ, including introducing a new version of our developer API. The changes in the API combine requests made by developers with improvements we wanted to make use of in our own applications. The version 3 documentation is available on the developers section of DigitalNZ. We will continue to support version 1 and 2 of the API for the foreseeable future, but we encourage people to move existing applications to version 3 to...
