Feb 6, 2019 | Digital Preservation, Digitise, Gavin Mitchell, News, Recollect
What is Digital Preservation? Digital Preservation has two key elements: The protection of a digital file from loss or degradation. Ensuring the information contained within the file remains accessible by the intended audience with the tools they might reasonably be...
Nov 12, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Audio, Case Studies, Digitise
First-hand accounts of our WW2 veterans are a very precious part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national history, especially as time passes. Martyn Thompson spent hours interviewing approximately 80 veterans (including 5 women), creating over 79 audio cassettes as part of...
Oct 10, 2018 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper, Print, Replica
Significant historical documents are at the mercy of time. Often fragile and holding important and irreplaceable information, it is crucial that these documents be both preserved and accessible. Handling, exposure to light, and fluctuating environmental...
Aug 22, 2018 | Artist, Case Studies, Digitise, Gallery, Nigel Roper
A collection of unseen works from prominent New Zealand Artist of the 1950’s Leonard Mitchell has been digitised and printed as high-quality reproductions for Mitchell Studios, managed by Leonard’s niece Anna Reed (née Mitchell). Born in 1925, Leonard was...
Jul 30, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Case Studies, Digitise
Colleen Brown first approached us back in 2015 with a bundle of photographic negatives connected to the story of Sling Camp and the huge Kiwi memorial carved into the hill there. The Bulford Kiwi is still visible from across the Salisbury Plains in Southern England...
May 3, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Gavin Mitchell, Leigh Rout
A joint project between Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Archives New Zealand, Land Information New Zealand, and Environment Canterbury is bringing the original survey plans of Canterbury to life on a new digital platform. During the European settlement of Canterbury in...
