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NDF 2009 Conference
The NDF 2009 Conference is only three weeks away! If you have not yet booked your ticket to attend the conference, registrations are still open and can be completed using the online registration form.
The latest conference programme and descriptions about each conference session are now available online giving you a sneak preview of what to expect at NDF 2009.
Highlight on Keynote Presenters
Daniel Incandela Proudly sponsored by Fulbright New Zealand Going Digital and Creating Global Audiences: Are You Ready? Over the past five years, the Indianapolis Museum of Art has aggressively developed new technology initiatives, covering the development of innovative digital content, multiple web site deployments and methods to engage online audiences. Join Daniel Incandela, Director of New Media at the IMA, to learn how his leadership has set new standards on how museums develop and implement digital content....want to hear more?? Register now!
Jane Finnis Proudly sponsored by the British Council From Portal to Publisher: A case study of online cultural publishing It was May 1999 when the 24 Hour Museum went live, one of the first generation of publicly funded cultural ‘portals’. Since then, the digital world has seen many big changes. The online world is radically different, the economic and political climate has fundamentally shifted and online user behaviour is unrecognisable from ten years ago.... want to hear more?? Register now!
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Copyright Collective to act as digital rights aggregator in Great NZ eBook Project
Copyright Licensing Ltd has formed a venture to digitise New Zealand books and make them available to the New Zealand reading public on new digital reading devices, including ebook readers and smartphones, Apple's iPhone and the forthcoming Google Android phones.
Thirty publishers have already submitted more than 300 of New Zealand's most renowned books to include in the project.
CLL, the non-profit copyright collective representing book publishers and authors, will be seeking rights from publishers and authors to digitise further works which would be made available under licence to libraries, booksellers and the educational sector.
Chris Else, Chairman of CLL, said CLL had been looking for ways to develop an infrastructure that would assist in the development of digital publishing in New Zealand.
‘The digitisation of books is one of the most exciting business opportunities the world has seen and New Zealand must embrace it in order to move forward in the publishing industry. CLL aims to identify business opportunities for publishers and authors in the digital environment.’
CLL has formed the venture in conjunction with Digital Strategies Limited and InfoGrid Pacific Pte Limited following on from the formation of the Digital Publishing Forum last year. Forum Director Martin Taylor will manage the new venture through his company Digital Strategies Limited.
The proposed public launch of the project will be in the second quarter of 2010.
‘The project is scheduled to run for 12 months before being developed further. Its goal is to see a significant percentage of New Zealanders reading books digitally in the next two years. ‘Although Ebook readers are not yet widely available in New Zealand part of our plan is to use these great New Zealand ebooks to encourage companies like Sony, Asus and others to enter the New Zealand market early and help to grow it," Mr Taylor said.
InfoGrid Pacific Pte Limited: Contact Andrew Crisp, ph 021 654 397; andrew@infogridpacific.com
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Register online now. For full details about the conference, visit the conference website http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm
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New NDF Board Members Announcement
NDF 2009 Conference Subsidy Grant
NDF 2009 Conference
The committee for the NDF 2009 conference is offering assistance to people who are either employed by or associated with a small community organisation who would otherwise not be able to attend the conference. This assistance comes in the form of a subsidised registration fee of $200. There are 10 subsidy grants available. This is open to residents or citizens of New Zealand only. No assistance can be given to overseas residents .
To apply please complete the NDF 2009 Subsidy Grant Application Form. This can be found online at http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm Please find someone to act as a referee for your registration. This person should be able to confirm that you or your community organisation requires financial assistance. Your referee might be someone you work with, but should not be a family member.
Applications close 28 August 2009 .
More Registration Information For more information download the Registration Booklet online at http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm
Register online at https://www.etouches.com/NDF2009
Conference organisers of NDF 2009 P: +64 4 562 8259 F: +64 4 562 8269 E: ndf@paardekooper.co.nz
DigitalNZ + GLAM-WIKI
DigitalNZ are blogging about the GLAM-WIKI event in Canberra on 6-7 August.
http://digitalnz.org/blog/news/article-cultural-institutions-meet-wikimedians iihttp://digitalnz.org/blog/news/article-help-cultural-institutions-meet-wikimedians-part-ii
Visit the DigitalNZ website to have your say.
The National Digital Forum pays respect to Seddon Bennington
Chair of the National Digital Forum John Garraway today acknowledged the passing of Dr Seddon Bennington and his contribution to the GLAM sector and the NDF Board.
“Seddon Bennington’s passing comes as a great shock to the NDF. As Te Papa Chief Executive he has been a member of the NDF Board for the last three years and has shown an ongoing commitment to the activities of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums in surfacing New Zealand’s rich culture and heritage in the digital public space. The Board valued Seddon’s opinions and perspective greatly and I personally will miss his support. It is very hard to come to terms with the fact he is gone and will no longer sit amongst us. On behalf of the NDF Board and the 142 institutions which are members of the Forum I offer our condolences to Seddon’s family and to his colleagues at Te Papa.”
NDF 2009 overseas contributors and registration fees announced
National Digital Forum 2009 Conference Being online now: culture, creativity and community
Monday 23 – Tuesday 24 November 2009 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Overseas contributors announced We are pleased to announce the following confirmed overseas presenters:
Nina Simon Museum 2.0
Nina Simon is an independent museum exhibit designer with experience in museums, alternate reality gaming, and social technologies. She is focused on creating participatory, dynamic, audience-centered exhibitions, programs, and online experiences that engage visitors as co-creators and community members, not just consumers.
She has worked with the International Spy Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and other science and history museums to develop exhibitions and strategic approaches to dynamic, flexible communication with visitors.
Find out more about Nina’s work on her Museums 2.0 website
http://www.museumtwo.blogspot.com/
Daniel Incandela Director of New Media, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Daniel Incandela leads the award-winning New Media team at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Since 2004, he has built the department from the ground up; creating a team with a reputation as innovators in the field of museum technology. Under his leadership the team has created dynamic content on YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and iTunes in addition to IMA developed sites such as the IMA Blog.
All of these projects feature fresh approaches to digital content delivery that bridge the gap between art and its viewers. The most recent major release from the IMA is the video art site Art Babble http://www.artbabble.org/
IMA website http://www.imamuseum.org/ More about Daniel from the IMA blog http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/author/dincandela/
Registration Information Registration for NDF 2009 opens next week.
The registration fees have been set as follows:
Full Conference Registration Member Early Bird $375 Member Standard $425 Non Member Early Bird $475 Non Member Standard $525
One Day Conference Registration Member Early Bird $225 Member Standard $275 Non Member Early Bird $325 Non Member Standard $375
Subsidised Registration for Small Community Organisations Full Conference Registration $200 10 subsidised registrations will be available for small community groups on application. Further details will be available in the registration booklet available next week.
All fees include GST and are in $NZ.
The EARLY BIRD rate only applies until Monday 5 October 2009
2009 Conference Being online now: Culture, creativity and community
The 8th annual National Digital Conference will be held on November 23-24 2009 at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
This year’s conference theme is Being online now: Culture, creativity and community.
We will be exploring opportunities for the creative and cultural sectors to cross traditional boundaries and collaborate on solutions to address issues facing communities being online now. This will be managed through a stimulating mix of international keynote speakers, mini-forums, clinics, showcases and workshops.
NZ copyright status flowchart (photographs) DigitalNZ has recently released the first version of a tool for determining the New Zealand copyright status of photographs. You can read about it and download the chart on the DigitalNZ website. You can also leave comments with feedback or questions about the chart.
NZ copyright status flowchart (photographs)
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION FORUM 9am - 5pm, Monday, 2 February 2009
National Library of New Zealand Auditorium, Cnr Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Wellington A Sun Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation in Libraries, the National Library of New Zealand is internationally recognised for its enviable roster of digital preservation projects such as the National Digital Heritage Archive Programme and development of pioneering digital library tools.
As part of the official launch of the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA), the National Library of New Zealand will host a one-day forum International Perspectives on Digital Preservation.
Speakers will include members of the NDHA International Peer Review Group; National Library of Australia; Archives New Zealand and the National Library's NDHA team.
The forum is being offered at no cost to attendees. Registration is essential as space is limited. To attend the forum, please register to NDHA@natlib.govt.nz advising your;
NAME ORGANISATION AFFILIATIONS PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS Further details about the forum will be posted on http://ndha-wiki.natlib.govt.nz in early January 2009.
Media Release (20 November 2008) Visionary Keynote Speakers Announced for the National Digital Forum
The 2008 National Digital Forum (NDF) conference will be held at the Owen G Glenn Business School in the University of Auckland from 27-28 November. The NDF are pleased to announce an impressive line-up of overseas contributors to the conference including two keynote speakers of international renown.
Keynotes speakers, George Oates, Flickr Senior Program Manager and Paul Gerhardt, Managing Director of Archives for Creativity will kick off the conference. Oates will deliver the first keynote “Human Traffic, General Public”, how a start-up with a handful of members became the world-famous photo sharing site it is today. Flickr has grown to an archive of over 3 billion photos in just under 5 years. Gerhardt’s keynote “Public Expectations and Public Use: The Case of the UK’s Creative Archive” will examine the lessons for digital projects, public collaboration and the reconciliation of commercial revenue with public value raised through the BBC’s Creative Archive Project.
The line-up also includes contributions by the following international speakers:
The theme for this year’s event is ‘Creating value in a digital New Zealand’. This theme will cover the role and contribution our digital content providers have in making New Zealand stories and images easily accessible here and around the globe, so creating value for users of digital content from communities, education, and business. We will explore linkages with the New Zealand Digital Strategy 2.0 and its related Content Strategy.
About the Keynote Speakers George Oates award-winning, world-renowned web designer. A member of the founding team that built Flickr, she is fascinated by collaboration, organic information systems and virtual society. For the past four years, she was the Lead Designer of flickr.com and has recently transitioned into the role of Senior Program Manager. Her first project in the new role is The Commons on Flickr, an opportunity for Flickr members to participate in describing the world’s publicly held photography collections.
Paul Gerhardt runs the UK based media consultancy, Archives for Creativity. He originated and led the BAFTA award winning Creative Archive project for the BBC, and continues to support the UK’s Creative Archive Licence Group. He is an advisor to KQED’s Science Media Commons project and to the Open Education Video Project in the US, and join chair of the Film & Sound Think Tank for JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee for UK Higher Education). www.archivesforcreativity.com
About the conference contributors
Sebastian Chan – Head of Digital Services & Research, Powerhouse Museum, Australia. Coming from a background in social policy, journalism and media criticism as well as information technology, he has been building and producing websites and interactive media since the mid 1990s. At the Powerhouse he has been responsible for driving a strong user focus in design, usability and content, as well as expanding the scope and reach of the museum’s suite of online projects. In the 2006/7 financial year his team was responsible for tripling visitation to the Museum’s online resources and a large suite of innovative experimental projects. He is known as a cultural sector specialist in social media and Web 2.0 applications, as well as web analytics.
Graeme W. Austin is the J. Byron McCormick Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law, where he is co-director of the Program in Intellectual Property. A specialist on international intellectual property law, he is the author of numerous books and articles in the area, including International Intellectual Property :Law and Policy (LEXIS, forthcoming 2008, co-author with Hennessey, Perimutter & Dinwoodie). He holds a J.S.D (doctorate in laws) and L.L.M. from Columbia University in New York where he was the Burton Fellow in Intellectual property Law.
Dr Lynda Kelley, Head of Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Web and Audience Research, Australian Museum. Dr Kelly has published widely in museum evaluation and write the Audience Research in Museums blog with a readership of around 500 per month. Dr Kelly is particularly interested in visitor experiences and learning and how these can be measured, young children’s learning, indigenous evaluation, as well as the strategic uses of audience research and new technologies in organisational change.
Dr Markus Brantl, Head of Digital Library/Munich Digitization Centre, Bavarian State Library. The Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) handles the digitisation and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany, now comprising 33,701 titles available online.
About the National Digital Forum (NDF) The National Digital Forum (NDF) is a coalition of more than 120 museums, archives, art galleries, libraries and government departments working together to enhance electronic access to New Zealand’s culture and heritage. The NDF is identifying opportunities for organisations to collaborate, co-operate and share information with each other with the shared objective to facilitate a national approach to building collections of digital cultural heritage resources. A national cross-sector approach will help organisations to avoid duplicating effort, share information and develop expertise in the regions and nationally, negotiate funding and apply for grants, by providing a strong national platform.
ENDS For further information regarding the National Digital Forum please contact :
Celeste Milnes Executive Secretariat Officer National Digital Forum Ph : 04 474 3000 ext.8815 Email : Celeste.Milnes@natlib.govt.nz Web: ndf.natlib.govt.nz
For further information regarding the National Digital Forum 2008 conference please contact :
Paardekooper and Associates
Conference organisers of NDF 2008 - Creating value in a digital New Zealand University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-28 November 2008 Ph: +64 4 568 4576 Email: conference@paardekooper.co.nz
National Digital Forum's Coming Home initiative - powered by Digital New Zealand
What you need to know about the Coming Home initiative can be found at http://ndfcominghome.blogspot.com Regular updates will be provided over the coming days as we approach the go live date - Armistice Day, Tuesday, 11 November.
Collectively building New Zealand’s culture and heritage online
Are You Coming To This Year’s Forum? The 2008 NDF Conference Creating Value in a digital New Zealand is shaping up to be an exciting and stimulating event with over 200 people already registered to attend. You can still register for the conference which will be held at the University of Auckland’s Owen Glenn Business School on November 27-28. Online registration is available at http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2008-conference.htm This year’s forum will have a much stronger focus on your participation, requiring your input into discussion of opportunities and barriers related to digitisation, to inform priorities for the NDF in 2009. Review the mini forum topics in the programme, and come prepared to contribute your organisation’s perspective on what’s important for them and how the NDF can collaboratively facilitate or influence outcomes. The conference has some outstanding international commentators as well who will help set the context for this year’s forum. And we will celebrate the launch of Coming Home, the NDF’s collaborative digital initiative powered by Digital New Zealand, commemorating the 90 th anniversary of the Armistice at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Coming Home powered by Digital New Zealand The response from NDF partners to this initiative was fantastic with many great examples of the richness of our collections related to the Armistice theme. The Digital NZ team has been working very hard, using one of its unique applications, to produce a special Coming Home search widget that can be added to any website. You can use the widget to discover Coming Home content across all participating NDF partners. All NDF partners are invited to embed the Coming Home search widget on their sites in time for Armistice Day on 11 November 2008 so that we can promote our collaboration and showcase digital content commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice The Digital NZ team has also created a special Coming Home interactive Memory Maker which some NDF partners have contributed content to as well. The Memory Maker will let New Zealanders, young and old, create their own way of remembering the impact of war on this country by developing their own memory collage of images, text, sound and video from a range of our culture and heritage institutions. We will be in touch again very soon with more information and simple instructions on how to embed the widget on your page and how to link to the Memory Maker too. Together the NDF and Digital NZ are showing how we can make it easier for New Zealanders to discover and interact with New Zealand's content in exciting new ways. This is a wonderful initiative and one that NDF is proud to lead and formally launch at this year’s Forum.
The NEW NDF Board
Following the recent elections Paul Reynolds, Phillipa Tocker, Wallis Barnicoat, and Stephen Clarke join John Garraway (Chair), Alison Stevenson, Bronwyn Officer Andy Fenton plus Penny Carnaby from National Library of New Zealand, Dianne MacCaskill from Archives New Zealand, and Seddon Bennington from Te Papa as the NDF Board for 2008-2009. Acknowledgement of the contribution made by retiring Board members Brian Flaherty, Steve Knight, Bruce Ralston, and Joanna Newman to the inaugural NDF Board was formally recorded at the new Board’s first meeting. Sadly the Board also formally accepted Haki Tahana’s resignation as Kaihautu Maori. Haki was acknowledged for his contribution to the Board, at meetings, conference, advice and support with tikanga Maori. A process to replace Haki on the NDF Board is being facilitated by the three national institutions.
Digital Development Council and Forum
The NDF Chair recently attended the first Digital Development Forum in Wellington on 23 September. This Forum is intended to be an “Association of Associations” setting the work plan for and electing the Digital Development Council, set up by David Cunliffe, to work with central government to achieve outcomes of the Digital Strategy 2.0. For more information see Approximately 170 participants from Education, Business, Community & Voluntary, Creative and Cultural, and ICT sectors work shopped barriers and opportunities which could inform priorities for the inaugural council’s work plan. The NDF Board passed a resolution that the NDF should become a foundation member of the Digital Development Forum and the Chair should continue to attend these forums. Community Partnership Funding
There is another round of Community Partnership Funding with a closing date of 9 th November 2009 for initial expressions of interest. The NDF Board is actively exploring a potential proposal to submit. More information about the criteria is available at: http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/Funding/The-Community-Partnership-Fund/
Digital Continuity Strategy – Consultation Draft
Archives New Zealand has its draft Digital Continuity Strategy out for consultation and would welcome professional feedback from NDF partners. The feedback form can be found on Archives website at http://continuum.archives.govt.nz/digital-continuity-strategy.html If your organisation wants to make its own submission email feedback and completed RTF forms to: stephen.clarke@archives.govt.nz. Alternatively comments can be sent through to NDF@natlib.govt.nz and a combined submission from the NDF will be compiled on your behalf. To be considered, feedback must be received by 14th November 2008.
Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 The NDF Board made a submission on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 which located below on the News page. The Board also wrote to The Honourable David Cunliffe, Communications and Information Technology Minister, about the announcement of the formation of a Digital Development Council and broader Forum.
“Coming Home” and Digital New Zealand Information will be sent out, and is available here on the website, about how to participate in a digital content and discovery initiative under development as part of Digital New Zealand. This initiative will have the theme of “Coming Home” to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. The NDF Board has agreed to lead this piece of work with NDF partners, with a view to launching this initiative’s outcome at the annual National Digital Forum on 27 November 2008. This is an opportunity for the cultural and heritage community to showcase new and existing digital content created by the sector and pilot a nationwide approach to collaborative digitisation. Please start thinking now about any content you may have which relates to this theme and watch out for the arrival of more information.
Digitisation Selection Work The NDF Board would like to thank those NDF partners who commented on the Digitisation Selection Work. A summary of this feedback has been appended to the final version of the Digitisation Selection Work paper, which is available here on the NDF website as a resource for partner organisations.
2008 NDF Conference Theme Announced Our 7th annual conference will be held in Auckland for the first time on November 27-28, 2008 at the Owen G Glen Business School in the University of Auckland. This year’s conference theme is Creating value in a digital New Zealand. We will be exploring linkages with the New Zealand Digital Strategy and its related Content strategy through a stimulating mix of international keynote speakers, participatory mini-forums, clinics, showcases and workshops. We look forward to seeing you there.
Nominations to the NDF Board The NDF Board will have four vacancies in 2008. We will be sending partner organisations an information pack and nomination form in July. Partner organisations can nominate individuals from their own organisation or another NDF Partner organisation to the Board. In the event that there are more than four nominations received, an election will be held for all partner organisations to vote on their preferred candidates. Closing date for nominations will be 28 July. Please note: resources to attend Board meetings for any successful candidate who is nominated / elected are the responsibility of the nominating organisation, as an in-kind contribution to the running of the NDF.
NDF Website You might have noticed two new additions to the NDF website recently. We have added a list of all partner organisations as well as a list of the Board Members to the About Us pages.
Tell Us Your News and Share Ours Send us your news or work in the digital space! We’d like to keep the Register of Digitisation Initiatives (RODI) up to date with current projects and pass on information you think others should or would like to know about. Fill out the Project Registration Form or contact us.
The next NDF Board meeting is on 1 August 2008.
23.05.08 NDF Board submission on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0
Comments relating to Connection section
The NDF Board supports the goal of widespread availability of fast and affordable broadband meeting the needs of all New Zealanders.
The NDF Board recommends that the significant investment in connection also needs to be supported by significant investment in content, particularly digitisation of existing analogue formats.
Comments relating to Confidence section
The NDF Board supports the new goal, particularly with regard to “strengthening national identity”. The NDF Board is pleased to see Implementing the Aotearoa New Zealand People’s Network as one the Capability Actions with assured funding through to 2011, as this benefits some partner members of the NDF which would not otherwise be capable of building practitioner skills in their workforce or digital literacy in their local communities.
However, the NDF Board notes the dependence of public content providers in the culture and heritage sectors on volunteers, many without formal experience and qualifications. While acknowledging the significant contribution of volunteers to these sectors’ digital initiatives, this should not be viewed as a panacea for under investment in skilled professional staff or under estimating the real level of expenditure required for digitisation of New Zealand’s documentary heritage.
The NDF Board is concerned at the focus on ICT professionals in the document rather than a focus on ensuring that professional disciplines are enhanced with ICT skills to enable, for instance in a library, archival or curatorial context, that all workers can participate and add value (strengthen national identity) in the digital environment for content creation, sharing, and preservation.
The NDF Board recommends a broader approach to ICT skills and the workforce in the next edition of the Digital Strategy.
Comments relating to Content section
The NDF Board is extremely supportive of the focus on Digital Culture, and is actively engaged with the National Library of New Zealand in the action of Delivering Digital New Zealand.
The NDF Board would like to draw attention to the Register of Digital Initiatives (http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/rodi/search) undertaken by NDF partner members that are already contributing to improving the creation, discovery, and use of New Zealand-grown content.
However the barrier to full engagement for most NDF partner members remains funding.
The NDF Board is disappointed, despite previous submissions and the Digital Strategy noting “governments, academic and commercial interests around the world are going to significant lengths to digitise and distribute vast amounts of cultural and heritage content”, that the Digital Content Strategy did not have any government funding targeted at public content creators and providers, which hold the major proportion of cultural and heritage resources in analogue form, for investment in the costly process of digitisation.
If targeted resources were available for digitisation there would be significant potential to unlock access to this content, and create opportunities for adding value to it; for example the creation of new content by government, communities, and business using the rich source materials held by New Zealand’s collecting institutions which can be purposed for creative industries, education, broadcasting, and strengthening national identity. This would bring New Zealand into line with international investment in digitisation projects by governments for ensuring large scale migration of significant cultural and heritage analogue content into digital form accessible for all New Zealanders.
The NDF Board is positioned to ensure investment targeted for public content providers would be expended on priority digitisation projects of significant New Zealand documentary heritage that are collaborative and contribute to social and economic outcomes for digital culture, and would meet best practice industry standards for creation, sharing, and preservation of content.
The NDF Board recommends a contestable fund be established for digitisation by public collecting institutions in the next edition of the Digital Strategy.
Comments relating to Collaboration section
The NDF Board endorses the addition of Collaboration as an enabler of the Digital Strategy, and the recognition of the unique role of Māori as tangata whenua.
The NDF is a collaborative body, which includes a permanent seat on its Board to ensure the integrity of mātauranga Māori is maintained in all NDF activities and are aligned with a bicultural approach. This is particularly important in relation to digitising of taonga held by public collecting institutions, and respecting the access conditions and intellectual property rights of Māori.
However collaboration is difficult without adequate resourcing. The NDF operates as a not for profit body, with free membership, and supported from within existing resources of partner members. This includes in-kind contribution for time and expertise of Board members and the organisation of an annual conference for partner members to inform and stimulate digital content development in the cultural and heritage sectors. There is will, expertise, and vision to achieve goals aligned with the Digital Strategy, only restrained by a significant lack of investment or availability of a competitive fund targeting digitisation of New Zealand’s documentary heritage.
The NDF Board notes the proposal to form an Overarching Sector Forum with significant seeding funding and annual funding in subsequent years. The NDF Board expresses its concern that public content providers have not been identified as a significant interest group in the mix of this forum; particularly given their role as repositories of New Zealand content which preserve our unique identity and strengthen communities to support Digital Inclusion. As an established body, now in its eighth year of operation, which represents this significant sub sector of stakeholders, the NDF Board would expect an invitation to provide a representative on this Overarching Sector Forum.
It is also unclear whether the purpose of this Overarching Sector Forum is to act as advisors or decision makers. Given the significant level of funding proposed, it seems an extraordinary amount to support a purely advisory role, and our assumption is this group will have some decision making influence over how this money is invested. An alternative suggestion is to identify where collaboration across sectors is already initiated but requires more resource, such as the NDF, and provide them with an ongoing annual funding to ensure Digital Strategy goals of digital inclusion are being delivered on in a cohesive framework.
The NDF Board recommends the identification of formal public content providers as an interest group in the next edition of the Digital Strategy, and their inclusion for representation in the Overarching Sector Forum.
The NDF Board recommends a clearer statement about the role and purpose of the Overarching Sector Forum and of how its funding will be used in the next edition of the Digital Strategy. The NDF Board recommends the consideration of funding existing collaborative sector forums working closely with government to ensure the goals of collaboration are achieved.
Comments relating to Achieving Our Digital Potential section
The NDF Board is very pleased to see the acknowledgement under Valued Cultural Identity of the role libraries, museums, archives, marae have in caring for the collective memories of New Zealand Aotearoa, and contributing to enriching communities and cultures and promoting our unique national identity. Given this is the core constituency of the NDF membership, it would also be welcome to see more evidence of targeted funding to these collecting institutions in the Digital Strategy.
The NDF Board notes the challenge of “how do individuals, businesses, and communities create, discover and use this valuable New Zealand content to enhance our digital potential”. Our response is that this would be achieved by recognising that collecting institutions are also major local content creators and providers and that investing in them will enable their treasures to become more accessible in the public domain. This investment would provide source material for communities and industries to add value, so enhancing a creative knowledge based economy and building prosperous communities.
The NDF Board notes the action for the Digital Communities Action Plan, led by the Economic Development Association of New Zealand and Local Government New Zealand, with timing and budget “tbc”. Given that museums, archives, public libraries and art galleries are funded primarily through local government and as such, the NDF Board would welcome dialogue to ensure financial investment through this avenue is addressed strongly in this plan.
From the perspective of the National Digital Forum Board, under investment in digitisation of content is the most significant barrier to achieving our digital potential. This under investment impacts primarily on the enabler goal of world class content creation, discovery, and use; and the Digital Strategy outcomes of Productivity and Community. Ironically the collaborative infrastructure of the NDF is already in place, if only a significant ongoing funding source was available to facilitate the outcome.
The NDF Board recommends the inclusion of targeted action plans and funding for public collecting institutions and content providers in the next edition of the Digital Strategy.
The NDF Board recommends the inclusion of information about the NDF in the Digital Strategy as an example of existing collaboration in the digital environment.
11.03.08 - NDF PARTNER UPDATE The NDF Board in partnership with Te Roopu Whakahau has developed a role and position description for permanent representation of Maori on the board. The Kaihautu Māori position will ensure the integrity of mātauranga Māori is maintained in all NDF activities and is aligned with a bicultural approach. Selection for the Kaihautu Māori role will occur at least every three years. Nominations based on the role’s profile will be sought from Māori partner roopu in the NDF. If more than one nomination is received, an appropriate process involving all Māori partner roopu will be used to select the successful candidate with the best fit to the profile. The NDF’s Terms of Reference, which previously referred to a representative of Iwi, have been updated to reflect this change. Current board member Haki Tahana, with the support of Te Roopu Whakahau, has agreed to act in this role until the next NDF Board elections.
New Board Member Co-opted
Alison Stevenson, Andy Fenton, Brian Flaherty, Bronwyn Officer, Bruce Ralston (Deputy Chair), Dianne Macaskill, Haki Tahana, Joanna Newman, John Garraway (Chair), Penny Carnaby, Phillipa Tocker, Seddon Bennington, and Steve Knight.
Profiles of the current Board members will be made available soon on this website.
“Coming Home”
The NDF Board requests partner organisations consider now how their own existing or proposed digitisation projects in 2008 could link to this theme. The goal is to media launch a national discovery exemplar at the NDF conference in Auckland in November, which will simultaneously connect all New Zealanders to a rich digital information resource on this theme and contribute to a real example of collaborative digitisation (see Digital New Zealand below) that can support a future bid to government for targeted digitisation funding. Watch out for an invitation to participate soon.
Digital New Zealand
There is a lot of synergy between what Digital New Zealand aims to achieve and what the NDF has been advocating for on behalf of its membership. Through the NDF Chair, the NDF is well positioned to have its voice heard on the steering committee and align NDF initiatives with the development of Digital New Zealand for mutual success. Watch out for updates on this topic.
Digitisation Selection Work Reminder The NDF Board would like to thank those partner organisations that have sent feedback on the Digitisation Selection Work. The Digitisation Selection Work is available on this website. The paper and your feedback will inform the development of a Framework for prioritising digitisation of significant and important publicly held content, which is one of Digital New Zealand’s deliverables. For those partners who would still like to contribute, please email your feedback by Friday 15 March.
2008 Conference in Auckland Thank you to everyone who made the 2007 NDF Conference a success. Dates for the 2008 Conference in Auckland are Thursday 27 th November and Friday 28 th November subject to confirmation of venue availability. Mark these dates now.
NDF Website The Board is currently developing a design brief to renovate the existing website. Enhancements for the Register of Digitisation Initiatives (RoDI) are also being investigated to improve the functionality for partner organisations to register their digitisation projects.
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14.12.07 - Digitisation Selection Work On behalf of the National Digital Forum Board, I am pleased to make available for download a copy of the Digitisation Selection Work (Word Doc) (PDF). This paper is part of the NDF Board‘s endeavour to undertake projects which progress the identification, promotion and the advice on best practice in digitisation activity.
New Zealand’s efforts to date in putting digitised heritage material online have been sporadic and lacking in national oversight or coordination. The NDF Board has produced the Digitisation Selection scoping paper in order to articulate ideas about how New Zealand could prioritise material for future digitisation. The paper also considers what criteria should be taken into account when doing so. It is hoped that this paper, in combination with a redeveloped and updated the NDF Register of Digital Initiatives in 2008 will foster discussion around national priorities for digitisation.
There are of course many factors in addition to careful content selection which contribute to the success of a digitisation project. The NDF Board plans to develop other resources on best practise for digitisation, content delivery and preservation drawing on international standards and the good work already done by many NDF partners.
As a partner organisation of the NDF, your feedback will support the purpose of the Forum: to encourage, support and promote a national, cooperative, bicultural and cross-sectoral approach to enhancing access to natural and cultural heritage resources online. The Digitisation Selection Work has been sent to you for your comment and endorsement. We hope that you will engage with this work and send us your feedback.
Please email your comments to ndf@natlib.govt.nz by 1 March 2008. We will ensure all comments are compiled and considered by the Board.
02.11.07 - Communication from the NDF Board
The NDF Board would like to extend a warm greeting to all the NDF partner organisations. This is our first formal communication with you since the Board was established.
The NDF Board is actively working on issues relating to digitisation in the cultural sector. These include the New Zealand Digital Content Strategy, interoperability between sector groups and organisations, standards, toolkits and selection criteria. In preparation for the upcoming National Digital Forum event on 29 & 30 November in Wellington, the NDF Board would like to update the Register of Digital Initiatives (RoDI). The Board would also like to obtain an understanding of current expenditure being invested in digitisation projects. This information will be used to inform a business case to the government for additional funding. We need your assistance to do this.
Let us know the details of current digital initiatives in your organisation that are in development or have been completed within the last three years. Update your current entries in RoDI by emailing changes to ndf@natlib.govt.nz. If you have any digitisation projects that haven’t been submitted to RoDI, you can send in those details via the online form. While you’re looking at the register for your projects, have a look at all the projects on RoDI to see what other organisations are currently up to.
In order to begin to make a case for additional funding to be provided to the sectors for digitisation of heritage materials, we would like to gain a better understanding of what funds have already been spent. If you’re happy to share your financial information for a business case to government, please email us at ndf@natlib.govt.nz before 19 November 2007 with dollar amounts for 2005, 2006 and 2007 that have been expended on digitisation projects. Financial information will be grouped according to sector and will not be used to in reference to individual organisations.
We thank you for your contribution and look forward to seeing you at the 2007 National Digital Forum where we will update you on developments.
02.11.07 - NDF Board Response to Digital Strategy ‘Refresh’ Consultation with the GLAMs Sector
Introduction
The purpose of the National Digital Forum (NDF) is actively engaged in collectively building New Zealand’s culture and heritage online. The NDF seeks to foster best practice, and build expertise nationally across all sectors’.
The National Digital Forum Board represents the shared interests of over 100 partner organisations (see Appendix 1) which are government, business, and community based.
At its meeting on 5 October 2007 the NDF Board discussed the Digital Strategy Refresh documents presented at workshops in Wellington and Auckland.
The National Digital Forum Board agreed to formally make a response on the three discussion areas as follows
Digital Content
There is not currently a cohesive programme of work with funding, informed by a strategic and nationwide approach, which prioritises genuinely important cultural and heritage content to be unlocked and preserved for future generations of New Zealanders.
The NDF is uniquely positioned, using its partners, to identify a priority register of significant legacy New Zealand content, which is at risk of loss if additional resource is not allocated to digitise, enable and preserve access to it.
The NDF through its partners can quantify the current level of investment in digital content projects contributing to New Zealand’s economic and social capital. This effort could be doubled if a targeted fund was established to match the contribution already made. Benefits to the government and the user could be measured by use of this content, for example in education, creative industries, and research outputs.
Opportunities
Confidence
This is not a primary focus for the NDF.
The NDF supports user initiatives with a confidence focus such as the People’s Network.
Professional capability is seen to be the domain of professional associations in the GLAMs sector.
Connectivity
The NDF would welcome high speed and low cost internet capability, available anywhere in New Zealand from more than one provider, to enable cheap user access and quick retrieval of quality, media-rich digital content.
All publicly funded institutions should be connected to a national access grid.
Conclusion
The NDF supports the concept of Digital New Zealand.
The NDF would welcome the formal opportunity to participate at all levels in setting the agenda for Digital New Zealand.
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