National Digital Forum 2008

2007 National Digital Forum Digital Realities - communities, convergence and sustainability

Notes from a Hocken perspective Anne Jackman & Anna Blackman

Anne Jackman & Anna Blackman


Asking the questions:

• what end-user communities are out there?

• how are they using digital cultural heritage content?

• is it meeting their needs?


• notes on presentations are available from the National Digital Forum website

http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/forum2007.htm

• presentations covered a wide range of sites and projects

http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/forum2007.htm


Gathering the Jewels

• National Library of Wales

• www.gtj.org.uk

• 200 libraries, museums and archives in the largest collaborative digitisation project in the country. The bilingual website (www.gtj.org.uk) now features 26,000 jewels of Welsh culture and history, from 120 contributing repositories

http://www.gtj.org.uk/

http://www.gtj.org.uk/


• Puke Ariki – has some parallels with Hocken – both institutions have a variety of format, media and audiences

• books, paintings, photographs, audio-visual, analogue and digital

• students, public, local community, academics, tourists

• grappling with a legacy of analogue backlogs – like Hocken

• useful institution for Hocken to develop relationships with??


War Art Online – Archives NZ

• war is a popular topic! • allows users to add comments about items

on the site• issues with user added content – it takes

staff time to moderate the comments added to the site

• a lot of comments are relevant to war in general but don’t add that much to the specific items


Lessons

• involve your community

• collaborate for resources

• identify resources for digitisation

• prioritise, can’t do it all!


What do users want?

• Mark Crookston – research on use of digital heritage resources in tertiary education

• starting point for us to develop discussions with Otago academics as to what resources they would like available


Thoughts

• what to digitise?• allow user added content or not? Web 2.0?• what are our expectations of digital collections?• what are our user’s expectations?• do Hocken users have different expectations

from other Library users?• role of digital resources in marketing Hocken?• resources, resources, resources!

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