Articles & Presentations

This section contains links to articles published online and to presentations from conferences, workshops and other events. Please contact us if you would like to suggest a resource for this section.

Preservation Metadata: Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New Zealand (Apr-03)
Sam Searle and Dave Thompson, National Library of New Zealand
D-Lib magazine article that introduces the National Library’s preservation metadata schema and discusses issues around the long-term management of digital collections.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/thompson/04thompson.html

Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone (Mar-03)
Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato
Reviews a selection of Greenstone digital library sites throughout the world.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march03/witten/03witten.html

Preservation Metadata and Digital Continuity (Feb-03)
Steve Knight, National Library of New Zealand
Discusses the National Library’s preservation metadata schema and issues around the long-term management of digital collections.
http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info3_low.pdf

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Library Context (May-02)
Robert Sullivan, University of Auckland Library
Article in the well-regarded D-Lib magazine that is essential reading for those in New Zealand engaged in digitisation. Argues that institutions should follow local cultural protocols and consult communities when digitising Māori content.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/sullivan/05sullivan.html

Digitisation and Knowledge: Perspectives from Aotearoa/New Zealand (Dec-01)
This first issue of Working Papers in Communication contains papers from a conference hosted at Auckland University of Technology in February 2001.
http://www.aut.ac.nz/research_showcase/research_activity_
areas/communication_research/wpcv1n1intro.shtml

Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software (Oct-01)
Ian H. Witten et al, University of Waikato
Discusses Greenstone digital library software, the University of Waikato’s open-source system for the construction and presentation of digital collections.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/witten/10witten.html

Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Obligations (Apr-01)
Maui Solomon
Article in In Motion magazine that discusses efforts by iwi to have their cultural rights and values protected, particularly through Waitangi Tribunal claims. Examines fundamental differences between existing intellectual property right systems and Māori perspectives on indigenous peoples’ rights and obligations.
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra01/ms2.html

Electronic Textual Editing (06)
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium

A volume of guidelines and articles jointly sponsored by the Modern Language Association and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/

The New Map Librarians: Local perspective and local experience on digital spatial data and map librarianship (Feb-03)
Rose Holley, University of Auckland Library
Discusses the challenges facing map librarians due to the explosion of digital geospatial information.
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/docs/digital_projects/geocartrh1.ppt

Colliding Fronts: Using XML and the TEI to build a full text digital library at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (Nov-02)
Elizabeth Styron, Victoria University
LIANZA conference paper that introduces the standards used by the NZETC to develop their online archive of New Zealand texts.
http://www.confer.co.nz/lianza2002/PDFs/styron.pdf

National Digital Forum Presentations (May-02)
Presentations from the first National Digital Forum held at the National Library in May 2002. Topics covered include technical standards, copyright, audiences and markets, and case studies of digitisation projects.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/whatsnew/4initiatives.html#ndf

Developments in Access to Art Information (Encompass Digital Portal) (Apr-02)
Rose Holley, University of Auckland Library

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/docs/digital_projects/access_to_info.ppt

Taking It To The Streets: Why the Archives Embraced Digitisation on Demand (Jan-02)
Ted Ling, National Archives of Australia
Paper from the Second International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
held at Te Papa in 2002. Describes NAA’s digitisation on demand initiative to provide Internet access to Australian government archives.
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/conted/iccpr/papers/Ling.PDF