One year on, this presentation provides an overview of how the New Zealand Museums website has evolved. New museums continue to join NZMuseums and new collection records and images are published on the site daily. The demonstration will cover how museums can use the NZMuseums website, changes made to the web site over the last year (particularly the integration with public events from NZLive.com), and further development plans.
1. NZMuseums One Year Live A recap of the first year for NZMuseums.co.nz and a look at future plans Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems National Digital Forum Conference Wellington, Nov 23rd 2009
6. Website administered by: National Services Te Paerangi, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The team on the Our Space map at Te Papa www.nationalservices.tepapa.govt.nz
7. How they help He Rauemi Resource Guides 0508 freephone helpline
25. “ Using the NZMuseums website as motivation, we narrowed our selection down to 100 artefacts, took the digital photographs, and researched what we could in the time available.” “ We have found the NZMuseums web site to be very useful, and a great way to display our collections to a much wider audience. Local people have shown more interest since having seen their museum on the Internet, and tourists are able to access it ahead of their stay.“ Roslyn Miles, Administrator, Raglan Museum, wrote about her experience with the project: Raglan Museum’s profile page on NZMuseums Case Study: Raglan Museum
NSTP is a unit within Te Papa. Their mission is to strengthen the museum sector by providing practical and strategic help to museums and iwi throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. As part of the government act the Te Papa board has the function: To cooperate with and assist other New Zealand museums in establishing a national service, and of providing appropriate support to other institutions and organisations holding objects or collections of national importance. The team has 8 staff, 5 who are permanently based at Te Papa and 3 Development Officers who work in the field providing face to face support and feeding back to the team the needs of the sector.
NSTP offers support, advice, and practical assistance on museum matters such as: governance, management, and planning care of collections and taonga exhibitions and other public services relationships with communities customer service. Their services and programmes include: the New Zealand Museums Standards Scheme Ngā Kaupapa Whaimana a Ngā Whare Taonga o Aotearoa He Rauemi Resource Guides practical training opportunities Development Officer service a freephone helpline: 0508 NSTP HELP (0508 678 743) professional development opportunities research on mātauranga Māori and the development of cultural centres presentations by national and international subject experts on-site support.
Each contributor has their own private account with login access. Each object record with images can be marked as belonging to one or more communities. NZMuseums was marked as a default community for published objects records for each of the NZMuseums members.