Dec 1, 2015 | Case Studies, Community Engagement, Recollect
Upper Hutt City Library is the city’s primary community centre for living, learning, and leisure. It seeks to engage, inspire, and inform people, and plays a key role in the development of a strong local community. The Library’s Community Archive makes a significant...
Aug 6, 2015 | News, Recollect
You don’t tend to get those words together in the same string, but what’s exciting me about metadata at this point is the creative possibilities that it offers. For most of my time in archives & libraries, metadata seems to have been primarily about standards and...
Jun 19, 2015 | Andy Fenton, Leigh Rout, News, Press Release, Recollect
Launch of a new Recollect site is a big deal – our clients put a lot of work into getting their collections online – so we love it when our clients recognise this and have a formal launch to celebrate their achievement. Janine Delaney, Andy Fenton, and Leigh Rout were...
May 27, 2015 | Case Studies, Community Engagement, Recollect
Heather Newby started a Facebook group to share her photos and memories of growing up on NZ’s West Coast. The idea of a group that allowed Coasters who were “scattered, and had lost touch with each other” to reconnect and share interesting photos, articles, anecdotes...
May 27, 2015 | News, Recollect
The latest Recollect site is a labour of love from a dedicated community – lead by our very own camera operator, Heather Newby. On 22 May 2014, Heather started a Facebook group to share her photos and memories of growing up on NZ’s West Coast. The idea of a group that...
Feb 28, 2015 | News, Recollect
You may have heard the term ‘graph database’ and how they provide the magic behind facebook, Google, Twitter and seemingly everything else on the web today. What exactly is a graph database, and why should you be interested in them? Let me explain. An Introduction To...
