PRDLA2009

Brian FlahertyAssistant University Librarian – ITThe University of Auckland Library

Baskets of Knowledge

Digital Collaboration in New Zealand

Early on…National Union Catalogue

National Digital Forum 2002-

Register of Digitisation Initiatives

“Your window onto the places, events & people of NZ”

Aa gateway to NZ research…

NZ Digital Strategy

this is better, but…

Reuse?

community kete

museums …

archives …

Shared data

HPC collaboration

roadblocks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdave/125492047/

• lack of common agenda for collaboration • institutional / sectoral priorities - is it in our

nature or are we funded to collaborate• “build it and they will come”• “standards are barriers to participation”• why bother ? – Google is our collaborator• variable skill sets – large institutions do

better• hybrid costs

Some lessons

Digitisation is good

Digital Collections are better

Metadata

Let it free and it will come back to you

Digitisation is good

Persistence is essential

Give people the tools

to use and to reuse

“Cultural heritage results from EXCHANGE OF IDEAS

about objects

it is not located IN them”

http://www.slideshare.net/andypowe11/open-social-and-linked-what-do-current-web-trends-tell-us-about-the-future-of-digital-libraries

Kia ora

Thank you