Posts tagged with digital archives

A wooden two-story house typical of Wellington dwellings of the 19th century.

From Thorndon to Fontainebleau

By Cherie Jacobson
1 August 2024
Co-curating a Katherine Mansfield exhibition.
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Screenshot of homepage. Red banner, lots of writing.

Taking the long view: Preserving digital cultural heritage

By Martin Gengenbach
17 July 2024
Supporting digital preservation at the National Library
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A woman seated at a computer workstation is seen smiling.

Snapshot in the life of a digital archivist

By Cassie Richards
26 June 2024
Long-term preservation of the Library's valuable digital collections.
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Logo for Utaina with words, "Load the precious freight on board!", Preserving and protection our audiovisual heritage through digitisation.

A day in the life of an Utaina library assistant

By Liliana Polaczuk and India Donaldson-Nurse
12 June 2024
All about digitising audiovisual heritage.
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A selection of three LPs laid on a table in a fan shape.

Waiata — Digital taonga from Utaina!

By Mark Hector
23 May 2024
Celebrating NZ Music Month with taonga digitised by the Utaina Project team.
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A man is smiling into the camera while his colleagues work in the background on arrangement and description.

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.
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Embroidery of a video game, there is a brown perimeter with one gap, inside the perimeter are the words "It's dangerous to go alone! as well as two fires, a bearded man and a sword. A small green creature is walking through the gap.

‘It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This.’ — Storytelling in video games and their preservation challenges

By Finley Mudgway
8 December 2023
The joy of video games and why it is hard to collect them.
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Photo of a record on a record player on a digitisation machine.

From shelf to digitisation — Preserving our audiovisual heritage

By Madeleine Ross
19 October 2023
Watch and read about the Utaina digitisation process.
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A colour studio portrait of a women's soccer team wearing blue uniforms in three rows, with the captain in middle row wearing white jersey and two male coaches seated at either end of the bottom row.

The beautiful game

By Kimberley Stephenson
17 August 2023
Documenting the rise of women's football in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Cassette tapes are stored in grey archival drawers with labels.

Off the record | We hear you listening, right where you are

By Sarah Walker
23 June 2023
Accessing the nation's oral history archive just got a lot easier.
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A Jaz drive with Jaz disk being read as indicated by two small lights illuminated on the front.

And all that Jaz…

By Valerie Love
6 April 2023
Uncovering mysterious digital files using the Library's suite of legacy media tools.
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A black and white photo of a woman seated at a dining table.

'a series of Heavens': Katherine Mansfield in her own words

By Camus Wyatt
29 March 2023
Notes on the digitisation of the Mansfield notebooks.
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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.
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Panel discussion at the Wellington celebration of Papers Past's 21st anniversary.

Papers Past turns 21: Panel discussions

By PHANZA members
2 December 2022
PHANZA members report on the panel discussions held to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Papers Past.
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An open magazine with a picture and text visible, showing a woman standing among old, framed paintings.

Off the record | Exploring what we do not have

By Ashwinee Pendharkar
7 September 2022
The silences, gaps, and missing voices in the Library's collections.
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A logo showing a microscope and the words SCI in red and BLOGS in blue lettering.

Sciblogs — the end of an era

By Gillian Lee
9 August 2022
Explore the archived copy of New Zealand's science blogging platform which has been decommissioned.
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An old book with yellowing pages is open at a 45 degree angle ready to be digitised.

Digitising a commonplace book

By Llewelyn Jones
3 August 2022
Providing access and discovery is all part of the job for our Imaging Services team.
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A scene showing the range of placards and signs with slogans made by the protestors and hung up around parliament grounds.

Living history while documenting it

By Abi Beatson
8 March 2022
Archiving the 2022 Wellington protests.
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Illustration showing a woman in white lab coat with pink hair and a man in black t-shirt and beard.

Cartoons call the shots: An interview with Toby Morris

By Abi Beatson
27 January 2022
We talk to cartoonist Toby Morris about the COVID-19 cartoons created with Siouxsie Wiles.
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A woman wearing white gloves holds collection items with others displayed on table in front of her.

Highlights of 2021 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team

By Sascha Nolden
17 December 2021
The annual retrospective with observations and reflections from the Turnbull Library team who make our collections easier to find and use.
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