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Governance
The governance structure
The National Digital Forum was established in 2002 to achieve the cooperative development, delivery, and preservation of high quality digital resources that reflect the natural and cultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand.
A new Terms of Reference and governance structure was agreed for the Forum in 2006. This is based on the support of Partner Organisations and an elected Board, which will set direction and coordinate various sub-projects established to progress the work of the NDF.
National Digital Forum: Terms of Reference for National Digital Form Board. pmg_termsofreference [HTML]
The National Digital Forum Board is made up of the following members: John Garraway - chair
John Garraway is currently Digital Services Manager at the University of Auckland Library, following previous positions as Director of Library and Learning Services at CPIT (2005-2007) and Digital Access Manager at Auckland City Libraries (2003-2004). He is an Associate and Registered member of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), serving on its National Council from 2003-2007 as a Regional Councillor, Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President. He was nominated by LIANZA for the inaugural NDF Board and was subsequently elected in 2006. John is the current Chair of the NDF Board.
Andy Fenton
Andy Fenton is a leading authority in New Zealand on preservation microfilming and the digitisation of heritage materials, and is the Managing Director of New Zealand Micrographic Services Limited (NZMS) (http://www.micrographics.co.nz/). Andy co-founded a second company Desktop Imaging Ltd in 1997 (www.desktopimaging.co.nz), which provides commercial document scanning services. He strengthened NZMS’s commitment to the heritage sector with the establishment of the Heritage Materials Imaging Facility (www.hmif.co.nz) in 2003. This was a joint venture with Victoria University of Wellington and was opened in the National Library building in 2003 by Minister for the National Library Hon Marian Hobbs. All three organisations have a strong focus on duty of care, standards and quality.
Andy is a vocal advocate for collaboration and the NDF’s Register of Digital Initiatives “sharing out knowledge” and has delivered training workshops on digitisation throughout New Zealand and in Singapore. Andy served on the ARANZ Council from 2005-2009 and was the Councillor for their annual Records and Archives Week. Andy was elected to the inaugural NDF Board in 2006, representing the views of the smaller institutions, and is keen to continue to assist the NDF achieve its goals, in particular developing their Community of Practice through an online presence and annual conference, and creating a viable governance and resource base for members and New Zealanders.
Courtney Johnston
Web Manager, National Digital Library, National Library of New Zealand
Courtney Johnston joined the National Digital Library in 2007 as part of the Web Team, and took over the Web Manager role in early 2009.
In this position she leads a small team responsible for the maintenance and development of the National Library’s main site www.natlib.govt.nz and intranet and several other informational websites.
The Web Team is responsible for overseeing the Library’s presence on social media sites and channels (such the Library’s three blogs, Twitter account and membership of The Commons on Flickr), and advises or works with project teams on web standards, usability, user experience design, online communication and web analytics.
Courtney is also a member of the Digital New Zealand team; overseeing front-end development of the www.digitalnz.org and www.makeit.digitalnz.org websites and DigitalNZ search http://search.digitalnz.org
Courtney’s particular strengths and interests lie in the areas of user experience design, cultural institutions’ use of Web 2.0 technologies to provide services and build community, and issues around fair use, copyright and licensing. She has presented workshop sessions at the past two NDF conferences, and in 2009 organised Shelley Bernstein’s (Brooklyn Museum) visit to Wellington, and co-ran two workshops with Shelley for GLAMs sector staff. She has been part of the 2008 and 2009 NDF conference organising committees.
Courtney has strong relationships in the New Zealand GLAMs sector (in areas both digital and non-digital) and the New Zealand web community. In 2009 she was invited to Kiwi Foo Camp, spoke at Webstock Mini, was part of the Code Blacks team that won the trans Tasman Full Code Press contest (www.fullcodepress.com) and is on the organising committee for the Open Government barcamp and hackfest.
Before joining the National Library Courtney worked in the curatorial and marketing team at City Gallery Wellington. She has undertaken freelance writing, editing and research contracts for Christchurch Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, LITMUS Research Initiative (Massey University) and Creative New Zealand and The Real Art Roadshow.
Courtney holds an MA in Art History from Victoria University and has a personal blog www.best-of-3.blogspot.com where she writes about the New Zealand art world.
Anne Maree Scott
As the Library IT Manager at University of Canterbury I have collaborated on multiple digital projects for the University of Canterbury Library. The Library has created and provided access to a number of collections in two major areas. The archival digital collections include archives, photographs, architectural drawings, oral histories and art and the research collections include the UC Institutional Repository, Digital Theses and the Law Reform Reports. The Library also works with DigitalNZ, KRIS, Matapihi and NZLII on increasing access to these and other collections. I am a member of the Matapihi Advisory Group.
I have a wide range of experience in many areas of the digitisation including metadata, managing content, and the technologies involved. I am particularly interested in issues related to end user access; usability and searching; and how access to digital information can be integrated into learning and research. I would appreciate an opportunity to participate in the work of the Board.
John Truesdale
John Truesdale is currently working as a Christchurch based independent consultant focused on access, learning and collaboration within digital contexts. He has a background in libraries, education and engineering and has spent about ten years in each of the professions associated with these areas.
His previous role was as the Director, National Digital Library for 14 months, and before that time he was the Manager of Digital Services with Christchurch City Libraries for over ten years. Before working in libraries, he was a secondary school teacher and his initial degrees and work life were in electrical engineering.
John is passionate about learning through all stages of life and believes that increasingly this learning will happen through digital access and digital collaboration. The institutions involved in NDF have a vital role to play in digitally delivering access to our culture and heritage and John is enthusiastic about what NDF could facilitate for New Zealand and New Zealanders.
John was a member of the previous government’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group from 2005 to 2007 and played leadership roles in the initial development of the Digital New Zealand project and the Aotearoa People’s Network Kaharoa (which included the offering of a kete community digital repository and digitisation equipment) and such ventures as the development of the Learning Centre Network in Christchurch.
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke, ARMA, BA (Hons), MSc. Econ. (Arch Admin.)
Stephen is a professional member and New Zealand Branch Treasurer, of the RMAA (ARMA) and a former elected member of the Society of Archivists, UK. He holds a Masters degree in Archives Administration at the University of Wales.
Wallis Barnicoat
Wallis Barnicoat is currently Director at the Whanganui Regional Museum in Wanganui. Prior to this she was Manager Museum Development in National Services Te Paerangi at Te Papa. In recent years she has been involved in planning NDF Conferences and has presented at NDF. She initiated and organised the NSTP Un-conference Day in 2006 and 2007 as a practical adjunct to the NDF Conference. Wallis was conference convenor for the 2009 NDF Conference. . Paul Reynolds
Paul is the joint Managing Director of McGovern. He is one of the most well known and respected commentators and thinkers on the topics of information access and technological change in New Zealand today. His work demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of the Internet and of the broader issues in a social, economic, political and technological context. He puts a strong emphasis on community access and contribution to knowledge.
Paul is a member of the NDF Board, is Adjunct Director (Digital Library) to the National Library of New Zealand and serves on the Auckland Museum Board. In August, 2005, he was appointed to the New Zealand Government Digital Strategy Advisory Group. He is also an invited member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science, and a Webby Awards judge.
Paul also consults on digital strategic planning to a number of other cultural and heritage organisations and institutions in New Zealand and Australia .
He has a reputation for making the complex intuitive and the aspirational instrumental.
He strongly believes it is our responsibility to invent the future.
Phillipa Tocker
Phillipa Tocker is Executive Director of Museums Aotearoa, the peak professional body for the museum sector in New Zealand. Since joining Museums Aotearoa in 2005, Phillipa's aims have been to encourage communication and interaction between museums and galleries and other related sectors, and to improve their capacity to understand and meet the challenges of the changing environments in which we operate. Previous employment at Victoria University of Wellington included a variety of management, administration and art collection management roles. Phillipa has a BAHons in art history and anthropology from Victoria University, reflecting a life-long engagement with the arts and culture.
Elections are held for the eight partner members. Nominations are called for from the partner organisations, and members elected by the partner organisations.
The initial election placements were for two and three year periods, to achieve a rotation of places after two years.
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