DNZ Blog


A Century! Our 100th Content Provider

By fiona.

We are delighted to announce that Kete Selwyn, part of the Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa, is our 100th content provider.

Kete Selwyn aims to be a vibrant and lively online community that works together to capture the memories and stories of Selwyn District’s past and present. With over 1700 images, audio and descriptions - all Creative Commons licensed - Kete Selwyn is certainly making their community’s content easier to find, share and use!

Glen Walker, Selwyn Libraries Manager, says...

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Funding sources for a digitisation project

By natlib.
At the VUW Architecture and Design library we are hoping to progress a proposal to fund the digitising of the entire run of Home and Building (1937-1998), an important source of information on NZ architecture and design. The proposal has been outlined on the ideas page. The expertise is available in the NZ Electronic Text Centre which has completed a successful pilot project http://tinyurl.com/364e6g3 but we need to find substantial external funding to ensure it happens. I intend to apply to...

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Launch of Housing Research for New Zealand portal

By Virginia.

We’re pleased to have been part of building the new Housing Research for New Zealand online housing research register, now live at http://housingresearch.digitalnz.org.

Digital New Zealand is always excited when other organisations see a use for the solutions we’ve developed to help make New Zealand digital content easier to find, share and use.

Housing Research for New Zealand is a joint venture between a number of Government agencies and other organisations who aim to make all...

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Announcing the Make It Digital Award recipients

By Jo E.

DigitalNZ is delighted to announce that the Make It Digital Awards will be making some excellent New Zealand content easier to find, share and use.

We put together a top notch panel of judges to take on the unenviable task of selecting the winners from the 10 really interesting entries.

The Make it Digital Judges:

Jock Phillips: Jock is the General Editor of the Te Ara - The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Jock is also the author of A man’s country? and other published works in New...

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Help to map DigitalNZ content – new tool!

By Virginia.

Please help us to make content from Digital New Zealand partners more discoverable... Find an item. Check for a location. Put it on the map!

Suggest or view more details

Search Digital New Zealand and you’ll now see a “Suggest or view more details” link as well as the existing links through to the item.
 
Use this link to see locations already provided and to start adding locations for items that haven’t been placed on the map yet.

Watch how it works

Why are we doing this?

Rich and...

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"Unknown author" died less than 50 years ago

By natlib.
Hi there,Been using the copyright flowchart to help figure out if I can use a photograph in a publication or not.The photo was taken in ca 1952. I know when the subject died (1979), but don't know when the photographer died. I would assume the photographer to be of similar age, but s/he could have been older than the subject.If a photograph is unpublished; the photographer is unknown; and it was taken ca 1952, what are my options?...

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2010 DigitalNZ Roadmap

By Andy.

Since launching DigitalNZ at the end of 2008 we've been operating in 12-week cycles... we'd take several weeks to plan a cycle, complete a 12-week burst of activity, and then plan the next one. It's enabled us to be really responsive, but of late we've felt the need to look further ahead as well. So we're pleased to share with you our roadmap for 2010 (PDF), a four-page outline of what we hope to deliver for the year. We should point out that this is just a guide, it's not fixed, and we will...

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voting process

By natlib.
This voting process is biased towards larger orgainsations who can mobilise email lists etc. It is also biased towards wealthier organisations who have members and supporters that are on line. A lot of poor or small, but worthy groups thus missout.Ian

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