Visual explorations of New Zealand’s digital heritage

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Presentation by Chris McDowall to National Digital Forum on heritage data, visualisation, slow food and personal story telling.

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Presentation by Chris McDowall to National Digital Forum on heritage data, visualisation, slow food and personal story telling.
Te Papa, Wellington, November 29, 2011.

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Visual explorations of New Zealand’s digital heritage — Presentation Transcript

Visual explorations of New Zealand’s digital heritage

Chris McDowall, DigitalNZ

National Digital Forum

Te Papa, Wellington

November 29, 2011

Kia ora. My name is Chris.

My background is in geography, web an d data visualisation

My original plan was to create a set of DigitalNZ visualisations

Oops...

Progress was unsatisfying

The good news is that I could do everything with just the API

I was uncovering scale and structure but little was revealed about narrative, place and history

… then I was knocked out by Candy Elsmore’s remix “A Grand Mother”. http://www.vimeo.com/28974581

This wonderful remix reminds me of a tweet I saw a while back

Slow food involves...

... forming and sustaining seed banks to preserve heirloom varieties

Fruit Harvest in the South: Three Snapshots at Picking Time in Central Otago Orchards Sir George Grey Special Collections Auckland Libraries AWNS-19380309-52-1

... preserving and promoting traditional food products

Hangi revealed Joann Ransom, 2007 Kete Horowhenua CC-BY-NC-SA

... celebrations of local cuisine within regions

Waikawa amigo, 2008 Kete Horowhenua CC-BY-NC-SA

... organising small-scale processing

Stall advertising Taradale Wines at an A & P Show, Stratford McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district. Ref: 1/1-009787-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22778857

What if I turn the problem on its head?

Mangahao - Wellington city transmission line Photograph by Leslie Adkin, 1923 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964

I made a tentative tool for creating small personal visual stories using the DigitalNZ API

Search for images Arrange on the canvas Add notes, tell a story

Lists are useful, but images draw us in

The ease of use + satisfying visual output encourage people to play and share

We* should provide simple, compelling tools to contextualise + remix our heritage *Exactly who “We” refers to is an open question.

Thank you Chris McDowall, DigitalNZ @fogonwater

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