The National Library is the lead agency for New Zealand’s Digital Content Strategy, 'Creating a Digital New Zealand'. The strategy aims to chart a course for a content-rich digital New Zealand, where New Zealanders are actively engaged in creating, discovering, sharing and using content in a digital form.
The strategy was launched by the government in September 2007, and following a public consultation process at the end of 2006. You can download a copy of the strategy on the Digital Strategy website.
New Zealand Digital Content Strategy - Digital Strategy website
Why digital content?
The Digital Content Strategy is a key initiative of the government's Digital Strategy.
Digital content is one of the strategic enablers of the Digital Strategy. Access to and creation of content, including the applications that are vital for creating, using and sharing content, is a compelling reason to provide digital connectivity, skills and security. The availability of unique New Zealand content will help drive demand for broadband, improve the return on investment in capability, and create opportunities for commercial use.
Initiatives related to the New Zealand Digital Content Strategy
New initiatives from the strategy involving the National Library are:
Te reo Māori and Pacific Languages Metadata Project
Developing a te reo Māori metadata standard, followed by a range of Pacific language (e.g. Cook Islands Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Tokelauan) standards based on Dublin Core. The metadata standards for Pacific languages will be prioritised in consultation with the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs.
National Research Discovery Service
Extending the Tertiary Education Commission’s institutional repository pilots to develop a nationwide network of research repositories to ensure the ongoing online availability of New Zealand’s publicly funded research outputs.
More about the National Research Discovery Service project
National Heritage Programme of Action
A collaborative programme of action between three agencies (Te Papa, Archives New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand) to cooperate on standards and interoperability, cross-sector collaboration, capability, understanding user needs and enhancing access to achieve seamless online access to New Zealand's culture and heritage collections.
Aotearoa People's Network
Enhancing New Zealand’s public library network by establishing free internet access via libraries; computer and ICT hardware; onsite support and skill building; tools to encourage users to create, access, share and preserve content; and community repositories for citizen created content.
Aotearoa People's Network website
Digital New Zealand
Progressively enabling communities around New Zealand to connect with, access and create content for digital content repositories that reflect their rich histories, stories, cultures and environment.
Digital New Zealand: Digitisation Policy Framework
Developing and implementing a robust framework for prioritising digitisation of significant and important publicly held content in order to make strategic use of public funds for digitisation. The framework would establish approaches to digitisation standards, interoperability, preservation issues, online indexing alternatives, and other relevant criteria.
Digital New Zealand: Standards Development
Work on standards development and dissemination and the provision of advisory and support services to organisations and groups working on digital projects.
More about the Digital New Zealand projects
Further information
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