The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive launched its new search service this week. CEISMIC is working to avoid fragmentation of records and stories about the earthquakes from different people, and now behold their great new federated search function. It's powered by DigitalNZ, and pulls in amazing material from across various partners in more useful and meaningful ways.
The website helps partners share with each other, and you, for a better research and memory gathering...
DigitalNZ indexes a lot of stuff. As I type this blog post, it's midday on Friday, November 4, 2011. If I visit the DigitalNZ website and search for every item we index, I get 25,661,157 results. That's a mind-boggling number.
In preparation for a talk I'm giving at the National Digital Forum in a few weeks, I am trying to understand what exactly are the 25 million pieces of New Zealand digital content we link to. I've been asking myself questions like "How are these things distributed over...
It’s a beautifully told story about the pride and delight Candy’s family felt after discovering their grand mother / great grandmother, Mary Edith Aberhart, had signed the 1893 Suffrage Petition.
To make hard-to-find New Zealand content easier to ‘find, share, and use’, you have to know that the content has been digitised. Herein lies the paradox of Digital New Zealand.
That’s why the following note from Roger Barclay made our day:
"I have read with interest your comments about making NZ content easier to find. I have recently launched a website that provides access to V.C. Browne & Son's aerial photograph collection and it sounds like this site fits well with what you...
One of the best ways to explain the benefits of having an open API (Application Programming Interface) to data in the DigitalNZ discovery system is to show it in use.
What’s an API? In short, it’s a way for software applications to ‘talk to’ each other, and a way for developers to ‘talk to’ applications. We use an API to share data with other applications.
One of the questions we get asked most when working with New Zealand content creators is ‘what’s an API’?. Quickly followed by… ‘so, why would you do this?’
In short, an API (Application Programming Interface) is a way for applications to talk to each other; and a way for developers to talk to applications.
We ran the 'Coming Home' Memory Maker campaign to demonstrate what is possible when content providers ‘free up’ selected public cultural content for people to remix with permission; and used the remix editor to deliver the content to users.
The remix editor (developed by Ideum) lets people mix together and recombine video, audio, text, music, and graphic content to create their own 60 second online video that can be saved and shared (by sending a link, or embedding a link to it on...
The Coming Home search experience went live on 11 November 2008, to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the World War One Armistice. This was a sneak preview of the DigitalNZ tools that allow users to build their own NZ search tool, finding hidden and buried NZ content about their topic of interest. We undertook to connect together content from a whole range of sources, and in the process learn about how to open up more of NZ's rich digital treasures.
