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DigitalNZ - World Summit Awards Presentation
- 2. Helping make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share, and use
- 11. DigitalNZ collects descriptive data about 25 million+ NZ digital items from hundreds of data sources…
- 12. … and provides a data gateway so that others can build and run new knowledge services.
- 13. The DigitalNZ data service generates 10 million+ requests a month, across a network that spans government, schools, community, and cultural institutions.
Editor's Notes
- DigitalNZ – A-tihi o Aotearoa
- Helping people find, share, and use New Zealand digital content and delivering content-rich solutions from public service departments and private organisations to the people of New Zealand is core to DigitalNZ ( http:// www.digitalnz.org ). Quality New Zealand digital material can be hard to find and use amongst the weight of global content. Even though New Zealand is a small nation, our institutions hold billions of dollars worth of cultural and economic assets, as text, images, audio, and video. DigitalNZ was designed to help bring this material up to the surface, making it more accessible, useful, and valuable. DigitalNZ has become a national metadata aggregation service with over 130 content partners made up of all types of organisations. Through Digital New Zealand’s services, people can now discover, share and use over 25 million items of New Zealand digital content.
- Central to DigitalNZ is data aggregation. We bring together the metadata of over 130 New Zealand content partners digital collections. The partners range from government departments, libraries, museums, galleries and archives to radio and TV stations, not to mention community organisations and international organisations that hold NZ-related content. DigitalNZ structures and standardises the metadata (into Dublin Core) and stores it in a database. The magical part of DigitalNZ is that we provide access to that data via a gateway called the public API (application programming interface). This API enables developers and programmers to build new discovery tools to help expose our partners’ content in innovative and exciting ways.
- This is DigitalNZ Search http:// www.digitalnz.org / . This site is completely built on the API. It provides searchable, interactive access to over 25 million NZ digital items from our 130 content partners.
- People can also interact with the content, leave comments, and make their own sets of objects, from the huge variety of sources. We are seeing a huge variety of sets developed and being shared with friends and family. The important thing to remember is that this is all built upon the DigitalNZ data service, the API. It is the magic technology that helps us run our own services and, importantly, the services of others, such as…
- Like the UC CEISMIC - a project, run out of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. It aims to build a comprehensive digital archive of material related to the Canterbury earthquakes. http://www.ceismic.org.nz/ They were planning to build their own service to aggregate this material, but they were able to use the DigitalNZ service instead. This is their website, and they are using our DigitalNZ data service to search across items related to the earthquakes. People wouldn’t know that DigitalNZ anything to do with this, apart from the fact that they are fans of our work and they credit us. But the point here is that we can let them run their service, they’ve designed their own site, and DigitalNZ takes a behind-the-scenes role in distributing access to NZ material.
- NZResearch is a facility for sharing the NZ research outputs from the organisations such as NZ universities and other tertiary education institutions. This site was redeveloped and migrated onto the DigitalNZ search infrastructure in 2011. It is now completely powered by DigitalNZ and all of the NZ research outputs in this services are aggregated by DigitalNZ and delivered through the API.
- This is the New Zealand Ministry of Education website Digistore, it is a storehouse of free-to-use digital content to support learning across the New Zealand school curriculum from early childhood through to senior secondary student level. DigitalNZ items have been integrated as support resources for teachers. http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home This has been done using the DigitalNZ API.
- This Reel Choice iPhone App was developed by NZ On Screen (an online showcase of New Zealand television, film and music video, www.nzonscreen.com ), who are DigitalNZ content partners. To assist with the development of their iPhone App, we aggregated their metadata and provided it back to them in a standard, usable, format.
- DigitalNZ is helping to develop a new generation of services on top of our core activity of aggregating open data. This image shows the Lifelines touch table that is installed in the refurbished National Library building. http://natlib.govt.nz/visiting/wellington/the-lifelines-table This is all powered by the DigitalNZ API.
- In summary, DigitalNZ collects the descriptive metadata of more than 25 million digital items from hundreds of data sources...
- and provides a data gateway so that others can build and run new knowledge services.
- DigitalNZ is supporting organisations to develop their own discovery services. The data service generates over 10 million requests a month across a network that spans government, schools, community and cultural institutions. DigitalNZ truly makes NZ Digital Content easier to find, share and use, and will continue to develop new ways to do this in the future.