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Updating the language we use to describe our collections

By Emma Roache
27 February 2024
Reparative description at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Collections
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Highlights of 2023 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team

By William Daymond
14 December 2023
A review of 2023 from the team who make our collections easier to find and use.
Collections
A logo showing the silhouette of a dinosaur in front of a rainbow and the words, "Homosaurus: an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary".

What’s in a word — describing LGBTQ+ collections

By Emma Roache
11 May 2023
Using the international linked data vocabulary called Homosaurus.
Collections
A man standing behind a white table on which sit a variety of collection items including books, open reel tapes and a laptop.

Highlights of 2022 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team

By Nicola Frean
16 February 2023
A review of 2022 from the Turnbull Library team who make our collections easier to find and use.
Collections
Man dressed up as a gorilla.

Computer generated image-tagging experiment

By Dan Charles
18 August 2021
An experiment using image recognition to add computer generated metadata to images in digitalnz.org.
Behind the scenes
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What’s in a Tupuna name?

By Ariana Tikao
14 December 2020
Find out about the work to improve and update 100's of Māori name records in the Turnbull Library's database of unpublished collections.
Collections
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Making Turnbull collections more discoverable

By Nicola Frean
28 October 2020
Inside the Library’s work to improve name index terms and expand access to collections.
Behind the scenes
t-SNE representation of items by Elson Best, processed by a recurrant neural network.

article: {type: “War reports in all CAPITALS”}

By Emerson Vandy
16 November 2015
Large-scale computational research with Papers Past.
Library tech
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Opening our data

By Michael Lascarides
29 April 2013
Have a tinker with the Library's open data.
Library tech
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Introducing Mr IBM Building

By Kirsty Willis
25 March 2012
What happens when metadata slips sideways.
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Adding tags to DC metadata

By Douglas Campbell
18 September 2008
How can we bring the wisdom of the crowd into our metadata?
Library tech
Library Tech NZ.

Virtual computing with Amazon Web Services

By Elliott Young
21 February 2008
Scaling web services and the possibility of improving the Library's online access.
Library tech
Library Tech NZ.

Behind the scenes on Matapihi

By Aditya Prateek Anand
7 September 2007
The making of an aggregator for the heritage sector.
Library tech
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Web 2.0: shall we jump or shall we be pushed?

By Simon Bendall
3 September 2007
Feeling out the edges of Web 2.0 with our toes.
Library tech
Library Tech NZ.

Eating Dublin Core metadata with your fingers

By Douglas Campbell
1 September 2007
Relearning how to metadata with Dublin Core.
Library tech