The document summarizes New Zealand's efforts to digitize content from its museums through several initiatives. The National Digital Forum and DigitalNZ work with museums to make their collections available online through the NZMuseums website. Small museums benefit from having a web presence without much funds or expertise. The website uses an eHive collection management system and shares data through APIs and harvesting to integrate with other sites and allow different presentations of museum content. Copyright and rights issues must be addressed to allow legal reuse of digitized materials.
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Discovering New Zealand Museums
1. Discovering New Zealand Museums New Zealand digital initiatives to create and share cultural content Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems Museums Association Conference London, Oct 6 th 2009
3. Only 4 million people http://www.flickr.com/photos/vtveen/1062621164/
4. ... but a lot of digital initiatives Na tional Digital Forum Coalition of museums, archives, art galleries, libraries and government DigitalNZ Collaborative initiative led by the National Library of NZ
5. The Internet is a big place http://www.flickr.com/photos/djmccrady/806040268 226 million websites (Sep 2009 Netcraft Web Server Survey)
6. It can be hard to find what you’re looking for http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnny9s/2894855314
7. What you’re looking for isn’t always there http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/958035425
8. Filters help you get the layer you’re interested in http://www.flickr.com/photos/magslhalliday/4298869/
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10. Website administered by: National Services Te Paerangi, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The team on the Our Space map at Te Papa www.nationalservices.tepapa.govt.nz
11. How they help He Rauemi Resource Guides 0508 freephone helpline
15. How did the website come about? Redevelopment of an older directory site Vernon Systems were the successful tender for the new site New site to be based on eHive
NSTP is a unit within Te Papa. Their mission is to strengthen the museum sector by providing practical and strategic help to museums and iwi throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. As part of the government act the Te Papa board has the function: To cooperate with and assist other New Zealand museums in establishing a national service, and of providing appropriate support to other institutions and organisations holding objects or collections of national importance. The team has 8 staff, 5 who are permanently based at Te Papa and 3 Development Officers who work in the field providing face to face support and feeding back to the team the needs of the sector.
NSTP offers support, advice, and practical assistance on museum matters such as: governance, management, and planning care of collections and taonga exhibitions and other public services relationships with communities customer service. Their services and programmes include: the New Zealand Museums Standards Scheme Ngā Kaupapa Whaimana a Ngā Whare Taonga o Aotearoa He Rauemi Resource Guides practical training opportunities Development Officer service a freephone helpline: 0508 NSTP HELP (0508 678 743) professional development opportunities research on mātauranga Māori and the development of cultural centres presentations by national and international subject experts on-site support.
Each contributor has their own private account with login access. Each object record with images can be marked as belonging to one or more communities. NZMuseums was marked as a default community for published objects records for each of the NZMuseums members.