Biographies and Abstracts of Speakers and Chairs
National Digital Forum 2005
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MOKA APITI
Moka Apiti is the Mapping Director of HistoryWorks Limited, a Research and Mapping firm based in Wellington. He is of Waikato-Tainui and Ngāti Porou descent.
Moka has a B.Soc.Sci (Hons) in Geography from the University of Waikato. Moka has worked in the GIS/Mapping field for more than nine years, delivering quality mapping solutions to a wide range of clients.
He was one of the keynote speakers at the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping, held in British Columbia in March 2004.
As Geographic Analyst at the Crown Forestry Rental Trust (CFRT) from 2000, and GIS Mapping Coordinator from 2003 to 2004, Moka has assisted a number of Māori communities to prepare and present quality mapping products as part of their evidential base to the Waitangi Tribunal and Office of Treaty Settlements.
Participatory GIS, A Māori Perspective
What would Māori see when we look at a map of our own landscape? For many Māori it is another way of conveying the genealogy of the land. Like traditional tattooing, it tells a story.
Geographic Information Systems, (GIS) plots abstract points in the landscape – mountains, rivers, lakes, and so on – but the narratives of the landscape and the people are often hidden in the process of creating these more formal representations of the physical environment.
This presentation explores how indigenous stories about the land can be integrated within GIS mapping processes to ensure the genealogy (whakapapa) – the story of the land – the relationship between the people and the land is represented correctly.
Through the use of participatory GIS the process is one that takes time and requires a range of skills that seem easy to explain but difficult to perform.
This presentation explores the interface between tikanga and GIS – between kaumatua and electronic data capture. It highlights some of the ways in which western tools can be captured in aid of indigenous goals.
JANE ARMSTRONG
Jane Armstrong is Online Services Development Specialist for School Services at National Library. She trained and worked as a primary school teacher and is interested in educational opportunities provided by ICT.
Learning Activity Management System (LAMS)
National Library's involvement in the LAMS e-learning initiative has focused on connecting students and teachers across New Zealand with digital library resources. The learning sequences created and trialed demonstrate how the digital library can be used in the e-learning environment.
DAVID BAINBRIDGE
Dr David Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Canterbury where he studied the problem of optical music recognition as a Commonwealth Scholar.
Since moving to Waikato in 1996, he has developed his interest in digital media, while retaining a particular emphasis on music. A leading member of the Greenstone digital library project, he manages the group's digital music library project, Meldex, and has collaborated with several United Nations Agencies, the BBC and various public libraries.
He has published in the areas of image processing, music information retrieval, digital libraries, data compression, and text mining. He is co-author of the book, How to Build a Digital Library, and has twice been the recipient of the best paper award at the premier US conference on digital libraries (1999 and 2004).
David has also worked as a research engineer for Thorn EMI in the area of photo-realistic imaging and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medallist in computer science.
SEDDON BENNINGTON
Dr Seddon Bennington is the Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
He is a New Zealander who returned to New Zealand in 2003 after being Director of the Carnegie Science Centre in Pittsburgh in the United States from 1994. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Scitech Discovery Centre in Perth, Head of the Division of Professional Services at the Western Australian Museum, Director of the City Gallery, Wellington and Director of the Otago Early Settlers Museum in Dunedin.
Dr Bennington has a PhD in Zoology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
His vision for Te Papa is that as 'our place' it is both a major destination in Wellington for all the people of, and visitors to New Zealand, and a part of people's lives throughout New Zealand. Te Papa provides understanding and inspiration about our cultural stories, our creative achievements and our natural environment.
RACHEL BROWN
Rachel Brown has taught those beginning to research their family history at community education courses for five years. She takes the students on tours of Archives New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand and Wellington City Libraries to supplement classroom teaching. She has been doing her own family history for fifteen years. Her family history teaching is a part of a portfolio of paid work.
Issues for Small Archives – a user perspective. Kay Sanderson and Rachel Brown
The Internet is bringing new users to archives. Many of these new users are encountering historical documents (and the organisations that manage them) for the first time. Most have undertaken their research in the hope of making some kind of personal connection.
Ian Wilson, the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, has described this phenomenon as “history in the first person singular”, as many of these new archives users are family historians.
During this discussion Rachel Brown and Kay Sanderson explore the nature of this user community, its expectations and frustrations in using archives resources on the Web.
They note that the family history research community embraces a wide range of skill levels; the potential of Web resources to break down barriers to access is not always realised in the websites archives create; the lack of standardised structures and the diversity of archives websites makes them difficult to locate and use; information on websites is too often incomplete and links to additional information resources either obscure or non-existent.
A major issue for small archives and their users is that today’s born-digital records and those of the future are unlikely to survive unless an effective strategy for capturing and preserving these records can be found. Records created in environments where there is no regulatory requirement for long-term preservation are at particular risk, e.g. personal records and records of voluntary community organisations.
Rachel and Kay argue that such records are an essential part of the country’s documentary heritage. Small archives often exist in unsympathetic management environments and do not have the resources necessary to tackle these issues either individually or collectively. The potential for central government agencies to assist small archives in improving their databases and preserving born digital records requires an understanding of both the value of community records and of the operating realities of small archives.
NEIL COWLEY
Neil Cowley is the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’s Manager Information Technology and Development, responsible for leading many of the organisation’s information and technology initiatives over the past four years.
His career developed from twelve years with information technology vendors in the private sector in software support and presales roles.
In the early 90s Neil set up Wellington New Media specialist Hyperactive in the emerging area of multimedia. In 1998 following his sale of Hyperactive Neil joined the Department of Internal Affairs as a Technology Strategist.
MOBILE EXHIBITION GUIDE
Te Papa's conducted a Mobile Exhibition Guide pilot in 2005 to gauge the value to visitors of delivering information using mobile handheld computers. The pilot offered public visitors additional multimedia narratives about objects in our Made In New Zealand exhibition. This presentation highlights key findings from our visitor evaluations about delivering information in this way.
MARK CLAYTON
Mark Clayton has gained extensive curatorial experience of social history and technology collections through many years spent managing museums and art galleries in Australia and New Zealand.
During which time, he has also been involved with the planning, development and/or redevelopment of several new cultural-heritage institutions.
Institutional associations include the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame & Outback Heritage Centre, the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority, the National Library of Australia, the National Air & Space Museum of Australia, the Museum of Victoria, the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust (New Zealand) and most recently, Australia's Museum of Flight.
COLLECTIONS AUSTRALIA NETWORK (CAN)
…and AMOL begot CAN…
Conceived in the early 1990s as a centralized object database, AMOL (Australian Museums and galleries Online) has since become the cultural-heritage sectors most important online gateway serving the expanding needs of both public and professional users.
Since 1993 the site has undergone several makeovers, each precipitated by changing public policy and technologies. AMOL is once again being reincarnated however, in its new guise as the Collections Australia Network (CAN) it promises to offer much more than just a new look, and enhanced functionality.
With a new mandate that encompasses all collecting domains (including zoos, botanical gardens and arboreta), CAN will now be serving a greatly expanded user base while maintaining a particular focus on small to medium size collections.
CAN Project Director Mark Clayton discusses the policy background and planning issues that have influenced this latest makeover, together with initial field trial results from this far-reaching initiative.
PENNY CARNABY
Penny Carnaby was appointed National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in January 2003. She is currently one of the three Chief Executives on the Minister for Information Technology and Minister of Communication’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group, representing the ‘Content’ and ‘Confidence’ component of the strategy.
Penny is also Deputy Chair of the Minister for Education’s ICT Steering Committee for Education; a member of the Public Sector Training Organisation Board (PSTO); the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC); Council of Australian State Libraries (CAUL); and is currently Vice Chair of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).
Prior to her return to New Zealand in 2003, she was University Librarian and Deputy Librarian at Macquarie University in Sydney. Previous to this she enjoyed a long career in the tertiary sector in several roles at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT), including leading integrated educational delivery services in library and learning services, e-learning and staff development. Between 1999 and 2000 she served as National President of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), and was awarded a Fellowship of the Association in 2001.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales.
Penny’s professional interest is in creating national frameworks and strategies to enhance the flow of information to all parts of society. She believes that New Zealand Aotearoa has the potential to become a leading information democracy.
Her personal interests include the environment and wildlife of Australia and New Zealand, and the management of a small farm on Banks Peninsula, growing native trees.
BRONWYN DALLEY
Bronwyn Dalley is Chief Historian at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage where she leads a team producing histories in print, digital and other media. The Ministry runs several sites, including Te Ara The Online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, nzhistory.net (New Zealand's leading local history website), and anzac.govt.nz. The Ministry is also engaged in the development of a cultural portal.
ALLISON DOBBIE
Allison Dobbie is Group Manager – Libraries for Auckland City Council. She has been involved in libraries since she graduated in 1974, including libraries in the tertiary education and government sector, however she has worked mainly in public libraries.
In 1988 she completed an MA thesis that compared public library service in New Zealand and Norway, and involved an extensive period of research in Norway. She has held office in LIANZA (the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa), and has contributed widely to the profession in areas such as public lending rights for authors, adult literacy, and strategic direction.
Alison has been a member of the Arts Council of New Zealand, and currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Te Ara The Online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. She was selected as a member of the Bertelsmann International Network of Public Libraries in 1999, and in this role has undertaken research into such topics as the importance of library as place, cooperation in developing e-services, and a guide to digitisation for public libraries.
She has been involved in the National Digital Forum since its inception, and has lead Auckland City Libraries involvement as a founding partner in Matapihi, and as a leader in digitisation activity in Aotearoa.
JANE HUNTER
Dr Jane Hunter has just been appointed to a professorial research position in ITEE at the University of Queensland. Since completing her PhD in 1994, her research has focussed on multimedia digital libraries and knowledge management technologies for the cultural, scientific and government sectors.
Particular interests include applying semantic web technologies to knowledge management and mining; Indigenous Knowledge management and the long term preservation of digital collections.
Abstract
Jane will provide an overview of current Indigenous Knowledge Management tools and services - focussing on emerging standards and technologies of relevance to developers of Indigenous Knowledge bases.
In particular she will describe the use of ontologies to integrate heterogeneous and disparate information sources and to provide access to photographic collections, oral history collections, music and song recordings, maps and spatial information through mapping interfaces, time lines, genealogies and topic maps.
KERI KAA
Ngati Porou
Keri Ngapera Kaa lives in Rangitukia, near East Cape, looking after whanau land and property. She works as a freelance Arts/Education Consultant. She formerly lectured at the Wellington College of Education, in Maori Studies and Performing Arts.
In 2000 she was appointed a Trustee of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauraga o Aotearoa. Keri is a board member for the Tairawhiti Museum and a advisory member for Radio Ngāti Porou. She is a member of the Māori Reference Group for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and a board member for Te Waka Toi. In 2003 Keri was appointed member of the National New Zealand Commission for UNESCO.
JILL KOELLING (Keynote speaker)
Jill Koelling spent most of her curatorial career using digital technology to provide access to primary source materials.
During her seven years as Curator of Photographs and Head of Digital Imaging at the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) she worked with society staff to establish the first digital imaging laboratory operated by a regional conservation centre.
Koelling served as the principal investigator for Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, a Library of Congress American Memory project that featured photographs from the Solomon Butcher collection and the Uriah Oblinger family letters detailing their homesteading experiences.
The author of several articles and the recently published Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach, from Altamira Press, Koelling has been a vocal advocate for digitisation projects in the museum community.
Koelling came to the Collaborative Digitization Project in October 2004 from her position as Curator of Visual Materials in Special Collections at Cline Library, Northern Arizona University where she put her digital expertise to work increasing digital production and adding digital content to the Colorado Plateau Digital Archive.
COLLABORATIVE DIGITIZATION PROJECT
Technology allows us to see things we might otherwise miss, hear things we might otherwise fail to notice, and learn from those who came before about our past, our present, and possibilities for our future.
The CDP endeavours to provide meaningful content on human culture, science, and art to everyone connected online. We believe our museums, libraries, and archives hold the key to understanding ourselves, and through technology we help get users in touch with that knowledge.
Working together toward a common goal is the key to successful collaboration. In 1998, CDP began working with cultural heritage institutions across the state of Colorado to create high-quality digital access to primary source materials. Since that time, our efforts have expanded reaching ten western states. We currently have 72 partner and member institutions.
Koelling will describe the CDP process of working with all types of cultural heritage institutions to achieve success, including selection criteria for content, authenticity issues, outreach programs, identifying and overcoming challenges, usability testing, and staff development and training.
RACHEL LORD
Rachel Lord is the manager of Radio NZ's Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero in Christchurch, which is funded by New Zealand on Air to maintain a national archive of NZ's rich radio history. As an audiovisual archive digitisation is the only viable way to preserve and provide access to the thousands and thousands of recordings held in the collections.
DIANNE MACASKILL
Dianne Macaskill took up the position of Chief Executive and Chief Archivist on 11 June 2001. She is the first permanent Chief Executive of Archives New Zealand as a stand-alone Government Department. Prior to taking up the role, Dianne was a Deputy Government Statistician at Statistics New Zealand.
Dianne has worked in the public sector since 1971, concentrating her efforts in the effective management of public information and appropriate access to that information.
Some of the key projects that have been undertaken by Archives New Zealand over the last three years include: the development of a new public records legislative framework; the launch of Continuum.
Continuum (www.archives.govt.nz/continuum/) is a comprehensive programme designed to provide tools to government agencies to ensure good record keeping practices. It is an electronic finding aid to identify what is held in the collection.
PETER MACAULAY
Peter Macaulay is passionate about the ability of the Internet to enhance many aspects of people’s lives, and is working to make it happen.
Making the Digital Strategy a success seemed a natural thing to do and Peter became the Programme Manager on August 15, 2005. Immediately before this he was Executive Director of InternetNZ (The Internet Society)and also Chief Executive and Founder of The Number One IT Group Ltd.
Moving from aircraft engineering into the Computer Services division of Air New Zealand, Peter became an analyst programmer in 1972. This technical background is the foundation on which he has superimposed management, sales and marketing skills.
Generalisation has allowed Peter to work internationally, in roles as diverse as developer of operating system components, through to CIO of one of the world’s largest electronics distributors.
Peter has a strong interest in intellectual property, and was a founder of the NZ Business Software alliance. To emphasize a commitment to the industry Peter served on the board of ITANZ (The Information Technology Association), and was elected president for a two-year term in 1998.
Trevor Eagle and Peter Macaulay formed The Number One IT Group as a subsidiary of Eagle Technology in 1983, and it became an industry leader in software distribution and technical service. The business was highly regarded as a provider of award winning support.
The technical support divisions was sold in 1998, leaving Peter clear to run the consulting unit.
Outside of ICT, Peter's personal interests include Christianity, motorcycles, music, film, reading, food, real ale and almost anything that involves various risky combinations of velocity, wetness and altitude.
Peter has been married to Diana since 1968, and has adult children. Following the death of their son Matthew in the Paddington rail disaster in October 1999, Peter and Diana moved to the UK to focus on the issues of safety and corporate accountability arising from the disaster.
JOHN MOHI
Te Whanau-a-Apanui
John Mohi is Director, Services to Māori at National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. John has led the libraries’ bicultural development programme Te Kaupapa Mahi Tahi – Plan for Partnership, since he joined in 1996.
Prior to that he was a teacher, advisor and manager in special education. In 1988-89 he held a Rotary International Scholarship when he completed an MSc (Purdue University, Indiana).
John’s passion is to work with professionals in the cultural heritage sector and iwi to better reflect the depth of cultural diversity in the country for the benefit of New Zealanders and all people in the world.
ERNIE NEWMAN
Ernie Newman is Chief Executive of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) based in Auckland. TUANZ is a non-profit business organisation consisting of some 500 member-organisations that are major users of the telecommunications system for voice and data traffic.
TUANZ members include most or all trading banks, retail chains, insurance companies, central and local government agencies, educational institutions and other organisations with heavy communications usage. TUANZ focuses on influencing the policy environment in telecommunications to promote competition, encourages use of new technologies, and aids users to understand and implement complex telecommunications choices.
Ernie joined TUANZ in 1999, coming from an extensive background in government relations and industry association management, having spent 20 of the previous 25 years in senior positions with major industry groups including Manufacturers Associations and Chambers of Commerce. More recently he spent five years as a Marketing Manager within a public listed company.
Since joining TUANZ he has strengthened the role of the organisation in eBusiness, education, multi media and contact centres. He led TUANZ through the Ministerial Inquiry into telecommunications in 2000, the development of the Telecommunications Act 2001, the establishment of a Telecommunications Commissioner, and numerous submissions to the Commissioner’s inquiries. He represents TUANZ on a several external bodies in New Zealand.
He is very active in INTUG, the influential Brussels-based International Telecommunications Users Group, standing on its Executive Committee almost continuously since 2000 and serving from 2002 to 2005 as its Chairman. In this international role he has presented to many major conferences in the Asia-Pacific region, Americas and Europe including Japan, India, England, and the USA.
JIM NICOLLS MA Hons, BA Dip Teaching.
Ngati Whanaunga, Ngati Haua
Education coordinator Hauraki Māori Trust Board
Chair Kaunihera Kaumatua o Hauraki
Deputy Chair New Zealand Māori Council.
I believe passionately that all Māori children have the right to the best education that is available to them and that all tribal identity is an important component of an educated Maori person.
This digitalisation exercise for Hauraki has been driven by the fact that over the years we have collected a vast wealth of information but the information has not been accessible. Some $2 million dollars has been spent on research of the Hauraki Treaty claim, yet little if any of this information and the data gathered over the years has been seen by our tamariki mokopuna.
Information has been lost or ‘buried’ when organisations relocate, or when personnel leave. For Hauraki, digitisation will mean a systematic process of preserving, storing and accessing information.
We are grateful for the support of the Computer Science Department of Waikato University and in particular the involvement with Dr David Bainbridge and Te Taka Keegan.
We feel privileged to be a part of this forum.
BRIAN OPIE
Brian Opie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has interests in English Renaissance and post-modern literature, with particular reference to the relations between literature and technology. He is Executive Officer of the Humanities Society of New Zealand, and Secretary to the Council for the Humanities.
A settler poet on the Web: William Golder (1810-1876)
www.nzetc.org/projects/golder/index.html
William Golder's The New Zealand Minstrelsy (1852) is the first volume of poetry printed and published in New Zealand. He followed it with three more volumes, as contributions to the formation of a New Zealand literature. This paper will discuss issues in the design of an electronic edition of his poetry, a work-in-progess which is intended to meet the standards required of a scholarly edition of a writer and to respond to the open access and multi-media characteristics of the web environment for publishing.
KAY SANDERSON
Kay Sanderson began her career in archives in 1980 when she joined the staff of National Archives. She subsequently worked with the Alexander Turnbull Library manuscripts and oral history collections, as the Turnbull systems librarian, and as a policy advisor in the National Library.
A move across the Tasman in the late 90s brought her into contact with heritage services in smaller communities. She provided a local history service in one of the larger public libraries in metropolitan Adelaide.
For the past three years Kay has administered the National Register of Archives and Manuscripts, firstly on behalf of the NRAM Taskforce and more recently for Archives New Zealand.
Kay has also provided training and consultancy services to archives and public libraries in a private capacity. She has a particular interest in fostering the interests of small archives and collecting archives. Kay left the National Register only a few weeks ago to take up a position as a lecturer in Library and Information Studies at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
SAM SEARLE
Sam Searle is Digital Library Projects Leader in the Innovation Centre at the National Library of New Zealand.
She manages outsourced digitisation projects and contributes to the development of online services. Sam was project manager for the pilot phase of the collaborative project Matapihi, and is currently working on a project to provide full text access to the National Library's digitised newspapers.
She is the co-author of the 2002 report Creating a Digital Babylon? Results of a Survey of Digitisation Activities in New Zealand and has also recently presented and published the results of a study of successful national digitisation programmes in Europe.
HEENI SHORTLAND
Heeni Shortland is from Nga Puhi and Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga. Heeni is employed as the Iwi radio research archivist on a joint project with Te Whakaruruhau O Nga Reo Irirangi Maori and Radio NZ's Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero. She comes from a broadcasting and archiving background.
ALEX SMITH
As one of the senior interaction designers at web communications firm, Shift, Alex Smith is focused on using user-centred observation and analysis techniques to create websites that meet and surpass user needs.
Recently, Alex worked on Te Ara The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. During the course of this project, more than 75 students participated in a variety of sequential user research activities designed to inform the solution. Continual iterative research played a major role in creating a more useful and usable end result.
While with Shift, Alex has played a role in several award-winning projects. Recently, Shift's work for Tourism New Zealand has received prestigious international awards including a Webby, ID Magazine Award, and several TUANZ awards. Victoria University's International marketing site (www.vuw.ac.nz/international) was recognised as "Best Marketing Website" by TUANZ.
Alex has led projects for clients as diverse as: BP New Zealand, Bell Gully, Gold Coast Tourism, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Tertiary Education Commission and Toyota New Zealand.
Alex is also quite active in the usability community. He has developed the curriculum for two usability courses and regularly teaches at Victoria University of Wellington. He is also an active member of the New Zealand chapter of The Usability Professionals Association.
TE ARA - ONLINE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND
Te Ara is New Zealand's online encyclopaedia and has been created by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The first comprehensive New Zealand encyclopaedia to be released since 1966, the first sections of Te Ara were launched by Helen Clark in early 2005.
Subsequent sections are currently being researched and written and will be incrementally launched over coming years.
One of the team's goals was for the encyclopaedia to be as intuitive and user friendly as possible. For this reason, Shift and MCH have involved nearly 100 students in user testing at critical points throughout the design and development process.
This insight has helped us make informed design decisions that have contributed to the overall usability and usefulness of the end product.
This presentation highlights some of the iterative usability techniques that have been used to help shape Te Ara.
DEAN STANLEY
Dean Stanley has fifteen years experience working with schools to integrate information and communication technology into their learning and teaching programmes. He is currently undertaking a research project that involves a partnership between the Ministry of Education, Brooklyn School, Hewlett Packard New Zealand and Te Papa.
The project is exploring ways in which tablet technology might be used to assist students to speed up the transition from traditional numeracy and literacy to digital literacy, and to gather information from learning experiences outside the classroom.
The project also aims to discover what could be expected of students in terms of the ability to use technology to support presentation at the end of primary school.
Gathering Information Digitally
Dean’s presentation will describe the CHaOS digital opportunities research project that is exploring ways in which students can use information and communication technology to gather information from learning experiences outside the classroom.
In particular it will focus on how students are beginning to use technologies such as Tablet PCs and Pocket PCs to collect information and their perceptions of the value of using such technologies.
MARK STEVENS
Mark is the City Archivist at the City of Sydney. He was born in Hawera in a family that migrated to New Zealand from Australia in 1903. Mark joined the New Zealand National Archives in 1980, quite by chance, and worked there until 1988, including a stint in Auckland as Regional Archivist. He moved to Australia in 1991. He is also a past President of the NZ Society of Archivists and the Australian Society of Archivists.
Abstract: The Newtown Project
The Newtown project is a volunteer-managed website that presents historical and archival material about this suburb of Sydney. It went live during 2002 and currently attracts around 5000 sessions served per month.
The site combines digitised original records and secondary material sent in by members of the public such as stories about growing up in Newtown. There is no formal community consultation, but significant informal involvement through online responses from web site users.
This session will describe the evolution of the project and tour the website, discussing the main issues that have arisen and how, if at all, they have been addressed.
SUE SUTHERLAND
Sue Sutherland is Director, Policy & Information Democracy at the National Library of New Zealand, and is overseeing the development of the National Digital Content Strategy and the Strategic Framework for Public Libraries.
Prior to her appointment in January 2005, Sue was Libraries Manager at Christchurch City Libraries from 1994. Major achievements during this time included significant refurbishment and rebuilding plans for the Central City Library and eight community libraries and the development of comprehensive web and digital services.
Sue has had a long career in a wide range of libraries and been active in LIANZA, including being President from 1991 to 1992. She was an inaugural member of the International Network of Public Libraries, sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation and remained a member of the Foundation for the duration of its existence.
TE TARU WHITE
Te Taru White is the Kaihautu, (Māori leader) of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Along with the Chief Executive, he leads Te Papa's bicultural development and has primary responsibility for ensuring that effective relationships with iwi (tribal groups) and Māori are developed and maintained and their connection with the Māori treasures that Te Papa has in its collections (mana taonga) is recognised and respected. He has tribal affiliations to Te Arawa/Ngati Pikiao, Tainui/Ngāti Mahanga and Ngāti Porou/Te Whanau-a-Ruataupare.
Te Taru White has extensive public and private sector experience at senior executive levels, including as resident Engineering Geologist for ten years based in Wellington and Huntly, Assistant Director Māori Affairs in Rotorua, Human Resource Manager for several years at Rotorua Hospital, and as Branch Manager in charge of regional operations and asset management for the Ministry of Māori Development over a six-year period.
Te Taru spent five years running his own consultancy business in indigenous development areas and worked extensively with First Nations people in Canada and the United States on tribal development issues. He has a total of fifteen years experience in Māori tribal socio-economic development areas and was the chair and trustee of a number of farming, forestry, and hospitality organisations in the Central North Island region.
Te Taru White has been a past Board member of the Land Transport Safety Authority, the Lakeland Health Board, and was an International Director on the Native Investment and Trade Association in Canada. He has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Geology from Victoria University and a Master of Business Administration from Waikato University. He also holds a Certificate in Company Directorship from the New Zealand Institute of Directors.
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