1	"Digital Libraries in" Digital Libraries in New Zealand A Brief Update David Seaman Digital Library Federation DLF Fall Forum Baltimore, MD October 25, 2004
2	New Zealand Population: 3,993,817 (July 2004 est.) 47 million sheep. Ethnic groups: New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian/others 7.4% Languages: English (official), Maori (official) Chief of State: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Dame Silvia CARTWRIGHT (since 4 April 2001); head of government: Prime Minister Helen CLARK (since 10 December 1999)
3	National Library of New Zealand Welcome to the National Library of New Zealand. Kia ora. Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National librarian: Penny Carnaby http://www.natlib.govt.nz/
4	National thinking abounds Digital Strategy: A Draft New Zealand Digital Strategy for Consultation. June 2004 http://www.med.govt.nz/pbt/infotech/digital-strategy/draft/ New Zealand will be a world leader at using information and technology to realize our economic, social and cultural goals. All New Zealanders will benefit from the power of information and communications technology (ICT) to harness information for economic and social gain. This will result in changes in government, businesses, communities and society as a whole.
5	A digital strategy for the National Library of New Zealand National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Act 2003: To extend the requirements for legal deposit in the National Library, for electronic publications. Legal deposit is mandated to preserve and provide access to the National Library's collections. http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/about/1corpinfo.html Similar to the UK’s Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, which began on 1 January 2004. http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/20030028.htm
6	National Trusted Repository
7	Preservation Metadata Schema NLNZ’s Metadata Standards Framework 2000 Preservation Metadata – November 2002/June 2003 http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/whatsnew/4initiatives.html#meta schema -- a logical model data model -- for implementation extract tool (see also Harvard’s JHOVE) repository
8	www.matapihi.org.nz Matapihi is a free web-based service to search the online collections of multiple organizations. Alexander Turnbull Library Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Auckland City Libraries Christchurch City Libraries Otago Museum This collaborative service is a window onto the heritage collections of New Zealand's archives, galleries, libraries and museums. A single point of access for around 50,000 selected images, sounds and objects, and this number will increase as new partner organizations join in the future.
9	New Zealand Electronic Text and Electronic Poetry Centres The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, founded in December of 2001, hosts an ever-expanding free internet archive of standards-based and searchable XML texts and images, delivered through an Open Source framework. Victoria University at Wellington http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc). University of Auckland http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/
10	Encyclopedia of New Zealand The first port of call for reliable information about New Zealand: its land, living things, peoples, culture, history, and identity. A gateway to the cultural treasures of New Zealand - the images, sounds, objects, documents and films in regional museums and libraries, the special places in this land, the people who have forged our identity. An exciting multi-media project incorporating text, photos, maps and graphs, sounds, and video. Available progressively online and eventually in print
11	Greenstone Digital Library software University of Waikato http://www.greenstone.org/ Greenstone v2.52, including a built-in OAI server, export to METS functionality, an OggVorbis plugin, and Lucene building support. Greenstone 3 (forthcoming) even better [See next speaker for full scoop!]
12	Closing National coordination of digital efforts for home, school, business and college Strong cultural heritage and digital preservation expertise and ambitions Strong NZ content focus Array of impressive initiatives Significant tools building
13	"David Seaman" David Seaman dseaman@clir.org