Apr 19, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper
One of the projects we love doing is helping a family capture and preserve their history. Our Wellington team has recently digitised two historical family tree documents for one of our clients, John Christie. The first tree is titled – “William Laddes, of...
Mar 27, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise
LINZ Surveyor Field Book of the Gisborne area from May 1913. We recently found a photograph in one of the 13,000 Surveyors Field Books we have been digitising. The book was dated May 1913 and has a title on the front cover “476A Gisborne John Roddick May 1913” which...
Feb 20, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise
Throughout the years the NZMS team have digitised many illustrations and artworks for children’s books, reference and New Zealand history books. The most common material we digitise for children’s picture books are collections of watercolour artworks by talented and...
Jan 30, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Leigh Rout
The Sisters of Mercy purchased the property on which the Villa Maria College is now situated in 1917. The school was opened on 18 February 1918 with 14 pupils enrolled. Villa Maria began serving the district as a parish school when boys were admitted in 1921. When...
Jan 30, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper
City Gallery Wellington has spent the past year reviewing their archives which contain ephemera and documents of the Gallery’s history. Our NZMS team in Wellington has digitised these documents which are now being uploaded to the City Gallery website. City Gallery has...
Jan 1, 2018 | Digitise, Recollect, Resources
Descriptive metadata We can capture the full-text content (and more) of digitised items including the contents of manuscripts, journals and books. We also can capture specific metadata such as author, dates, titles, descriptions, and subjective information...
