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Encoding Schemes for eBooks

By natlib.
Hi 'Make it Digital',I would be very grateful if any one could recommend an encoding scheme (http://kete.digitalnz.org/help/topics/show/16-useful-resources) for eBooks? Supplychain metadata (ONIX etc) is well-established but there appears to be a lack of vocabularies for structured markup at a granular level. The emphasis on the scheme is external - i.e. looking out to APIs like DigitalNZ - rather than for any internal content reuse.One possibility would be to hack together several of the...

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Nearly there - digitising the British Parliamentary Papers relating to New Zealand

By fiona.

Make it Digital Award winners - University of Waikato Library are blogging their experience of digitising the The British Parliamentary Papers relating to New Zealand:

Work has been proceeding apace on all aspects of the project. The scanning is all done. Thanks NZ Micrographics!

Here in Hamilton at the University of Waikato Library, two teams have been beavering away.

Waikato University Library Team

The busy Waikato University Library Team (with Licorice Allsorts) responsible for digitising the British Parliamentary...

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Copyright of photographed artworks

By natlib.
Hi.I'm currently involved in a project creating a short animated film from exisitng art works (paintings from Rembrandt, Caivaggio, Rapheal etc). Many photos of these works can be found on the internet but what is the situation regarding copyright of these images? Obviously the artists have been dead for well over 70 years allowing the works to fall into 'Public domain' but is there an issue with the copyright of the scan or phot of the paintings? wikipedia states that "faithful reproductions...

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API Enhancement brings geotagging to search results

By Elliott.

Geotags for search results are now being returned in the Search Records API. We're still updating the docs, but the field is called geo_co_ords and it returns a semicolon-separated list of lat,lng pairs.

This means you can finally create awesome google maps of locomotives with the DigitalNZ API.

You can even jump to a street view (drag the small orange humanoid from the top left onto the map pin) and see how things have changed.

But perhaps the most exciting thing is that You can geotag any...

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Enabling Remix - how to make your content available for Mix and MashNZ

By fiona.

We've been talking to all our wonderful content providers about making content available for reuse in the upcoming Mix and Mash Competition - due to launch on 3 November 2010.

This post outlines the 4 small steps to get onboard and make content easily available through DigitalNZ for Mix and Mash.

Step 1) Read the Make It Digital Remix Guide :
We have just published a guide which explains how to enable remix*.  We strongly encourage you to read the guide and then come back to this...

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Great progress digitising the British Parliamentary Papers relating to New Zealand

By fiona.

Make it Digital Award winners - University of Waikato Library are blogging their experience of digitising the The British Parliamentary Papers relating to New Zealand.

We have been making steady progress with the digitisation of the British Parliamentary papers relating to New Zealand. New Zealand Micrographics were selected to scan and OCR the papers for us and this new partnership was kicked off with an audioconference to discuss the project and refine the details. Many questions were...

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Commercial Web Software

By natlib.
Could you give me some examples of good commercial software for building an archive website. The site would contain images and text (separate and combined) and perhaps sound; video would be best linked to YouTube (ideally through an iframe). An enlargement option should be available for images and text. Search by filename, metadata and description is imperative. eCommerce is desirable but not essential. Uploading should be relatively simple. I would appreciate the names of a few packages I...

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