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- Digital Libraries in
- New Zealand
- A Brief Update
- David Seaman
- Digital Library
- Federation
- DLF Fall Forum
- Baltimore, MD
- October 25, 2004
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- 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)
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- 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/
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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/
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- 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
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- 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!]
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- 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
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- David Seaman
- dseaman@clir.org
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