Jan 1, 2018 | Digitise, Resources
Your collection becomes richer and more discoverable when information is pulled from your image files. Text can be produced from content in the images, by ascribing descriptive metadata or by linking images with your analogue or digital finding aids or other databased...
Dec 14, 2017 | Andy Fenton, Digitise, Gavin Mitchell, News, Recollect, The National Digital Forum
21 and 22 November 2017, Te Papa, Wellington Since 2002 the National Digital Forum (NDF) Conference has benchmarked digital innovation in the Cultural Heritage space in Australasia. And this year’s 16th Annual Conference did not disappoint with an eclectic yet joined...
Nov 16, 2017 | Andy Fenton, Digitise, Gavin Mitchell, News, The National Digital Forum
NZMS has a long history of attending and supporting the National Digital Forum Conference and this year we are excited to be presenting at the Demo Hall. Andy Fenton and Gavin Mitchell will be presenting a discussion about; Surveying our Past: Historic Surveys Mapped...
Nov 14, 2017 | Case Studies, Digitise
As part of a much larger project for LINZ which includes large format maps, we are currently digitising approximately 630,000 pages of field books for the North Island, with some of them dating back to 1872. The field books are small and very fragile landscape bound...
Oct 19, 2017 | Digitise, Recollect, Resources
You want your historical or cultural heritage collection to become accessible, discoverable and engaging… have you thought of an online community engagement platform? Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) delivers numerous avenues for participation in...
Oct 10, 2017 | Case Studies, Digitise, News
NZMS has been working with Archives NZ, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Christchurch City Libraries, Environment Canterbury and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to digitise some of the earliest survey plans of the Canterbury Land District, known as the ‘Black Maps’. The...
