Posts tagged with digitisation

A woman in a lab stands behind a table on which some architectural drawings are displayed.

Conservation of the John Scott collection

By Louise Newdick
29 February 2024
In the conservation lab with Paper Conservator Louise Newdick.
Collections Behind the scenes
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.
Behind the scenes
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 technician adjusts the DAT using their hands before photographing the object.

DATs what we like to hear: Processing the digital audio tapes of Flying Nun Records

By Mark Hector
18 May 2023
Preservation of DATs by copying the music as data.
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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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Portrait of an older woman, she is wearing a chunky necklace and heart brooch.

Anna Jacoba (Ans) Westra (1936-2023)

By Paul Diamond
3 March 2023
Commemorating the life and legacy of one of New Zealand’s best-known photographers and documentarians.
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Four women touching a red box.

Digitising audiovisual items — Utaina project milestone

By Jessica Moran
21 December 2022
Digitising begins on the National Library's audiovisual collections.
Collections Behind the scenes
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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Two Library staff sitting in the reading room with a book they have digitised.

Off the record | Preserving te reo print

By Paul Diamond
5 October 2022
Read about our work to digitise precious printed materials in te reo Māori.
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Album cover showing concentric black and white patterns with portrait of two musicians in the middle.

Tall Dwarfs ‘Unearthed and Unravelled’

By Alec Bathgate
27 September 2022
Tall Dwarfs' Alec Bathgate writes about putting together their retrospective box set, 'Unravelled'.
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Pencil sketch of two men sitting outside a shelter covering beehives.

The bee takes flight again

By Clare Butler
16 September 2022
Clare Butler, Digitisation Advisor Māori, shares the joys of te reo Māori, bees and books.
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Beautifully handwritten letter in te reo Māori.

Ka rere anō te pī

By Clare Butler
16 September 2022
Clare Butler, Digitisation Advisor Māori, whārikihia ana ngā koanga mō te reo Māori, ngā pī me ngā pukapuka.
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Detail of the Poetry Machine showing words Poetry Machine in a decorative panel.

Poems and Papers Past

By Melanie Lovell-Smith
19 August 2022
Poems in 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers.
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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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Aerial view of a building being built.

Surveying 105,000 audio visual magnetic media items

By Madeleine Ross
8 July 2022
Preparing 105,000 audio visual magnetic media for digitisation/
Behind the scenes
Chinese woman standing behind a trolley with audio items on it.

Loading the precious freight on board

By Jessica Moran
26 April 2022
Utaina! the project that is all about digitising audiovisual collections.
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Papers Past homepage including the newly developed books section.

Ngā Tānga Reo Māori on Papers Past

By Melanie Lovell-Smith
8 December 2021
Read about the Ngā Tanga Reo Māori project on Papers Past.
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Papers Past homepage 2021. White background with newspapers columns, foreground heading in old style font that says Papers Past, New Zealand Newspapers and Periodicals. More words about the site.

Papers Past — A brief history

By Tracy Powell
11 August 2021
Happy 20th birthday Papers Past. A brief history of the website.
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Papers past survey 2019

Papers Past satisfaction survey 2021

By Tracy Powell
21 July 2021
Answers to your questions about Papers Past including when will I be able to correct OCR text ‘like Trove’ ?
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