Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009: Paper: Gow, V. et al., Making ... - 0 views
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New Zealand content difficult to discover, share and use
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DigitalNZ is testing ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content, and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.
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Memory Maker blurs the line between consuming and producing content. What’s sometimes called ‘remix culture’ […]. Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for young people to access and represent the stories of their culture by taking sound and images and recombining them to say something new, something relevant to them. (Sarah Jones, Lunch Box: Software & digital media for learning, November 2008) http://lunchbox.org.nz/2008/11/get-coming-home-on-your-schools-website-wiki-or-blog/)
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The Memory Maker provides a taste of what is possible when collecting institutions modernise their practices for keeping and managing copyright information, using Creative Commons licenses or ‘no known copyright’ statements.
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Learning about ‘hyperlinks’ today, these young New Zealanders will be the developers and creators of tomorrow.
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The full set of contributions is accessible through a Coming Home search tool, occasionally on a google-like hosted search page (Figure 5), but more often through a search widget embedded on many New Zealand Web sites (Figure 6).
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Digital New Zealand is developing and testing solutions that showcase what’s possible when we really focus on improving access to and discovery of New Zealand content.
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Technically, the Digital New Zealand system is in three parts: a backend, a metadata store, and a front end.
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Gow, V., Brown, L., Johnston, C., Neale, A., Paynter, G., & Rigby, F. (2009). Making New Zealand Content Easier to Find, Share and Use. In Museums and the Web 2009. Presented at the Museums and the Web 2009, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/gow/gow.html