2006 National Digital Forum
Participating with Communities: Digital opportunities, collaborations and celebrations

Forum 2006 Day One | Forum 2006 Day Two

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Day One - Thursday 30 November 2006

9.00 – 9.30am - OPENING

9.30 – 10.30am – Session One – Emerging Trends on the Sector

Chair:             Dr Seddon Bennington, Te Papa
Keynote:        Jim Spadaccini, Ideum, New Mexico

Topic:             Emerging web trends for museums

Jim is the Founder and Creative Director of Ideum (www.ideum.com) an interactive design firm that specialises in developing electronic exhibits and dynamic websites and web applications for museums, nonprofits and socially responsible companies.

Over the last seven years, Ideum has worked with a diverse set of clients including Adobe Systems Inc., the Baseball Hall of Fame, the California Science Centre, the Computer History Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, NASA, the National Park Service, and The Tech Museum of Innovation, among others.

For its work, Ideum has been honoured with a number of awards, most notably Pirelli International Multimedia Awards in 2003 and 2004, and the American Association of Museum’s MUSE awards in 2003 and 2005.

A former Director of Interactive Media at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Jim was a major contributor, lead designer, and manager of the Exploratorium website, which was a three-time Webby Award-winning "Best Science Site" 1997-99. For his work at the Exploratorium, he received a Smithsonian Computerworld Award and an Association of Science and Technology Centres Award for Innovation.

Jim has taught courses on design and technology at San Francisco State’s Multimedia Studies Program and currently teaches for the Cultural Resource Management Program at University of Victoria.

Presentation: Museums and the Web 2.0

It’s been roughly ten years since museums began to develop online educational resources.  In finding their way through this new and complex medium, institutions faced a variety of technical, educational, conceptual and design opportunities and challenges.

Now, an array of new communicative and collaborative tools known collectively as the Web 2.0 - represent the most dramatic shift in Internet technology since the invention of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.

Perhaps the most striking parallel between the Web 2.0 and its predecessor is the re-emergence of the grand concept that anyone can publish, communicate, and collaborate on the Web. Blogs, wikis, community sites, podcasts, and other decentralized technologies are defining this new era. Museums are only just beginning to explore these new technologies and their larger implications.

As early adopters begin to develop Web 2.0 sites, a variety of questions arise. Who are we reaching? And what is their experience like?  What is the role of museums, libraries, archives and other knowledge-based institutions play in an environment where visitors are the major creators of content? 

This presentation will explore these questions and more, as we look at the Web 2.0 and its implications for the museum world.

11.00am – 12.30pm – Session Two – The National Digital Content Strategy Update

Speakers:  Virginia Gow, National Library of New Zealand, and Theresa

Graham,      uckland City Libraries
Topic:           Matapihi

Virginia Gow coordinates work on Matapihi at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, where she is a Business Development Analyst in the Digital Innovation Services directorate.

Before joining the National Library in 2005 (working first in the Alexander Turnbull Library), Virginia was a Production Editor on the first theme of Te Ara, the online encyclopaedia of New Zealand. She gained her Master of Library and Information Studies degree in 2003.

Theresa Graham is the Heritage Manager of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero and has worked extensively with manuscripts and archives.

Theresa is a co-founder of the Auckland Heritage Librarians and Archivists Group, and was made a Fellow of the Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa in 2002. She has recently been appointed as a member of the inaugural Archives Council.

Auckland City Libraries have been involved in Matapihi for the duration of its lifecycle.

Presentation: Matapihi two years on: looking back, moving forward

Matapihi (www.matapihi.org.nz) is a free web-based service that enables users to search across and bring together multimedia content from the online heritage collections of New Zealand cultural organisations.

Matapihi was launched in September 2004 as the first collaborative project of the National Digital Forum, centrally supported and lead by the National Library of New Zealand.

Two years down the track, the number of organisations contributing content to Matapihi has doubled – and will continue to grow as more organisations put digital collections online or find the resources to participate.

This presentation shares lessons learned throughout the experience of participating in Matapihi by Auckland City Libraries, one of the first five partner-organisations to contribute content. Consideration is given to what has worked and what hasn’t, factors for success, and what is on the horizon as Matapihi moves forward into the future.

Presentation:Sue Sutherland – the New Zealand Digital Strategy Update

1.30 – 3.00pm – Session Three – Sector Collaborations and Initiatives

Chair:              Allison Dobbie, Auckland City Libraries

Speaker:         Stephen Walsh, Land Information New Zealand
Presentation: The New Zealand Geospatial Strategy – a new way of working together and opportunities for the future

This presentation will outline the Geospatial Strategy approved by Cabinet in October this year and how the management of geospatial information is expected to be governed in the future. The presentation will also outline the possibilities that geospatial information provides for the future.

Speaker:       Kerry Harvey, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Topic:             NZLive.com

Kerry Harvey is a Policy Manager at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. He manages the team which developed and launched, in September this year, NZLive.com: New Zealand Culture Online.

On a secondment to the Ministry of Education from Creative New Zealand in 1997–2000, Kerry managed the development of the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum, which was introduced to schools in 2000. His previous life was in secondary education, particularly related to languages, English literature, and the performing arts.

Presentation: Connecting with our culture

This presentation focuses on the rationale for developing, launching, and planning the future of what began as a cultural portal project and became NZLive.com. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage began researching the need for a coordinated web presence for the cultural sector in 2002.

In 2003, Tourism New Zealand, in consultation with the Ministry and other cultural agencies, commissioned research into the international demand for cultural tourism in New Zealand. Also in 2003, the Ministry researched New Zealanders’ experience of their own culture.

This all highlighted the need for an online, one-stop shop coordinating cultural information and promoting cultural events, activities, goods, services, and products to wider more diverse audiences nationally and internationally.

NZLive.com is funded as a four-year development under the Digital Strategy. Phase one has delivered a directory of cultural sector organisations, an events and activities guide, related web links, feature articles, and other services. More developments are planned or in the pipeline.

NZLive.com is one of a growing number of online publications which are integral to the way the Ministry for Culture and Heritage provides access to cultural information for all New Zealanders and for overseas audiences.

Speaker:    Janine Delaney, Archives New Zealand  
Topic:          An introduction to the Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative and

                     Archives New Zealand’s digital preservation programme

Janine is the manager of the Digital Preservation Team at Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, which is currently developing the strategy and requirements for preserving born-digital government records.

Before this, she had a lead role in the development of Archway (Archives New Zealand’s archival management system) and set up the Context Control Unit, which is responsible for descriptive standards. Janine has also worked in collecting archives, first at the Alexander Turnbull Library, and then as Curator of Archives and Manuscripts at the Hocken Library, Dunedin.

Presentation:The recordkeeping continuum: a shared approach to making, keeping, and using digital records

The Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative is a collaboration between the ten national, state, and territory archives in Australia and New Zealand.

It is based on the common principle that digital records need to be actively managed and maintained from the point of creation if they are to remain authentic, reliable, and usable. It focuses attention on the importance of archival institutions working together and with government agencies to preserve digital records.

This is consistent with Archives New Zealand’s own digital recordkeeping programme, which aims to unify existing systems and programmes such as Archway and Continuum with the capability to receive, preserve, and provide access to digital government records.

Speaker:           Wallis Barnicoat, National Services Te Paerangi, Te Papa
Presentation:       NZMuseums Development Update

Wallis Barnicoat, Manager Museum Development has worked in National Services Te Paerangi (NSTP) for almost five years, working with museum personnel throughout the country assisting them to raise their skill levels, and build capacity to ensure the future sustainability of their museums. This work involves promoting participation in the NZ Museums Standards Scheme of best practice, regional training needs analysis, liaison with councils, funding bodies and other stakeholders and associated organisations, creating resources for the sector, providing funding for strategic and regional projects and providing training on a wide range of subject matter, throughout New Zealand.

NSTP is a team based at Te Papa, and their objectives are: To strengthen the museum sector by providing practical and strategic help to museums and iwi throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. 

The NZMuseums website is being re-developed to include collections and other information, in a national project led by NSTP. The RFP for Phase 1 of this development is about to be released, and the objectives of the development, the benefits and a description of the solution being sought will be presented by Wallis.

Q&A for Session Three

3.30 – 5.00pm – Session Four – Sector Collaboration and Initiatives

Chair:              John Mohi, National Library of New Zealand
Speaker:        Teanau Tuiono, Te Kete Ipurangi

Teanau Tuiono has been active in the digital world for a number of years with an emphasis on how that world impacts on indigenous peoples, locally and globally. He has participated at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) promoting indigenous perspectives with other indigenous peoples. Teanau Tuiono is currently the community facilitator of the Mäori education and Pasifika education communities on Te Kete Ipurangi [TKI].  TKI is a bilingual portal-plus web community which provides quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.

Topic:             Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society

"Information is not wistal territory, we believe ICTs will become just another solution in search of a problem." - indigendom. Information is without value if it is not available to those who need it. Knowledge, combined with the wisdom of our peoples, is what creates true opportunity ... If we do not relate technology to our cultures, and assert our rights to this new digious statement 2005 @ WSIS

Acting local and thinking global is key to influencing international agendas and how they impact on indigenous peoples in the digital world. Experiences in the Mäori ICT sector are useful internationally, from the development of the first indigenous second level domain name .maori.nz to the fostering of Mäori language content online. Teanau will reflect on recent international experience and relate it to some of the work being done locally in Aotearoa.

Speakers:  Robyn East, National Library of New Zealand, and Whina Te Whiu, Auckland City Libraries
Topic:          Enhancing access to information for M āori

Robyn East is a Cataloguing Team Leader at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M ātauranga o Aotearoa, and has more than 20 years’ experience creating access to information.

Ng ā ūpoko Tukutuku has been developed as part of the Mā ori Subject Headings Project jointly sponsored by LIANZA, Te Rō pū Whakahau, and the National Library of New Zealand.

Robyn has recently been a member of the Project Team that constructed the thesaurus and will be involved with its continued development.

Presentation:Ngā ū poko Tukutuku – Mā ori Subject Headings

Information covered during their presentation will include a background history of the Mā ori Subject Headings thesaurus, concepts and methodology underlying construction, application of the thesaurus in the National Library, and future maintenance and development.

Speaker:        Haami Piripi, Te Taura Whiri i t e Reo Māori
Topic:             Te r eo online

Haami is of Ngā Puhi and Te Rārawa descent. His q ualifications include a Bachelor of Social Work. His employment history within the p ublic s ector spans 25 years working for a variety of agencies including Social Services, Conservation, Mā ori Asset Management, Corrections, Justice, and six years as Chief Executive, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Mā ori (The Mā ori Language Commission).

Haami’s presentation will cover the establishment of an electronic lexical database and its use within a digital environment.  
He will refer to the ability for multi-user interface, its capacity for storing digitalised information, and issues around the ongoing digitalisation of Māori language resources enabling access by Māori communities, language scholars, and researchers .

Finally, the presentation will suggest collaborative initiatives and priorities for stakeholder agencies to address over the next three years.

Speaker:        Barbara Reed, Recordkeeping Innovation
Topic:             Digitisation – purposes and standards

Barbara Reed, as a consultant to Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, has just completed work on the Digitisation Standard for New Zealand Government Agencies.

Barbara is Director of Recordkeeping Innovation Pty Ltd, a consulting company with extensive work experience in practical recordkeeping in organisations of all sizes both government and non-government. This experience encompasses digital and paper, archives, and records management.

She is also widely published in professional publications. The most recent publication is ‘Challenges of managing the digitally born artefact’ in the new work co-edited by Dr Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington), Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums.

Barbara is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Archivists, Head of the Australian Delegation to ISO TC 46/SC 11 Records Management, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology, and joint editor of Archives: Recordkeeping in Society, a text on archives and records management practice used widely in records and archives programmes internationally, and currently being translated into Japanese and Spanish.

Presentation:Digitisation – purposes and standards

Standardisation is always problematic – as they say ‘the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!’ So how does the new Archives New Zealand standard on digitisation assist organisations? The standard focuses on two types of digitisation – that for integration into business systems at point of receipt and digitisation projects undertaken for integration, increased access, or preservation processes.

Each type of digitisation has a different primary purpose and therefore different organisational requirements. Ensuring appropriate attention to the purpose of digitisation will define different quality, metadata attribution, integration, re-use, and retention requirements for both the original and digitised versions.

It’s not always quite as simple as it looks at first glance! And, all this is taking place in an environment of rapidly changing technology, where ensuring the sustainability of information resources is critical, and where even the most amateur of photographers is a scanner and a stakeholder in digital preservation issues.

5.00 – 5.30pm

Sum Up – Summaries, Discussion and Questions