The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive launched its new search service this week. CEISMIC is working to avoid fragmentation of records and stories about the earthquakes from different people, and now behold their great new federated search function. It's powered by DigitalNZ, and pulls in amazing material from across various partners in more useful and meaningful ways.
The website helps partners share with each other, and you, for a better research and memory gathering...
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has just launched a competition for secondary schools students (Years 9-13) focusing on a theme of 'Safer Journeys for Teens'. The competition encourages the creative re-use of content and data from the NZTA websites and publications.
The incredibly popular 'Legend' advert is just one example of the content available for remixing in the competition.
In addition to creating a remix or mashup, students will have to provide evidence that they...
2011 has been a mighty big year for Team DigitalNZ.
One of the biggest achievements, (though hidden to most) was a complete overhaul of our technical infrastructure to improve performance and set DigitalNZ up for major growth. This was a very big and important job and that fact that you probably haven't noticed it is a very good thing.
This is my first blogpost. Hi, I'm Dan. I'm a content analyst in the DigitalNZ team, but people around here call me "The Harvester Guy".
Most people (including me before I started here) associate the word "harvester" with those big agricultural combine harvester things. If you do a google image search for "harvester" you get a pretty awesome assortment of these machines, with all sorts of different attachments, shapes and sizes for harvesting a variety of different crops. I...
I’ve recently emerged from 7 months immersed in the second Mix and Mash – the great New Zealand remix and mashup competition. Mix and Mash challenges people to build something completely new by reusing existing NZ digital content and data. This year over 100 entrants, including an entire primary school class, vied for $50,000 in cash and prizes.
DigitalNZ runs Mix and Mash because we want to:
see more New Zealand content and data used in innovative and surprising...
Here at DigitalNZ HQ we think you deserve to have a bit of fun on a Friday afternoon. Every Friday over the next few weeks we'll be posting a one-question quiz that can be answered by searching for clues using DigitalNZ's shiny new search service. We hope you have as much fun answering the questions as we did creating them!
Today is DigitalNZ's 3rd birthday! The years have flown by, and yet, we find it hard to remember a time when there was no DigitalNZ. On November 11th, 2008, we took our first steps as part of the 90 year commemoration of Armistice day. Anyone remember the Coming Home search service that started it all?
A lot of decisions have been made over the years that have shaped the DigitalNZ you have come to know (and hopefully love). One of the very first decisions we ever made was deciding what...
Auckland Weekly News, 21 June 1939. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19390621-46-1. No known copyright.
Last week I was given the fantastic opportunity to show educators DigitalNZ and Mix and Mash at the annual ULearn conference in Rotorua. ULearn is the largest teaching and learning conference in New Zealand with over 1800 educators in attendance.
I have presented these topics before and I am always amazed that there are some teachers who haven’t used...
So you will have noticed that our website just got a refresh. Hurrah! We're planning a full post on the ins-and-outs of the redesign, and what we are trying to accomplish, a little down the track. But for now we'll just let the site speak for itself, and let you explore.
We have quite a long list of things we want to come back to and improve, but are really interested in your initial reactions. What is working well, or not so well for you? Any bugs or issues we haven’t spotted? We are...
Geotags for search results are now being returned in the Search Records API. We're still updating the docs, but the field is called geo_co_ords and it returns a semicolon-separated list of lat,lng pairs.
