Digital NZ - A-Tihi te Aotearoa Digital NZ is an initiative with more than 120 partners, led by the National Library of New Zealand .
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Showing posts with label digitisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digitisation. Show all posts
Friday, 13 July 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has recently begun a project focused on the life and work of Ruth First, the South African journalist, writer, scholar and anti-apartheid activist. This project will include selective digitisation of some of the material from the Ruth First Archive collection held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library.
Also as part of the project a symposium is planned for the 7th of June, details below:
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
07 June 2012, 10:00 - 19:00
Room 349 (Senate House, University of London)
This event is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Ruth First was an anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist, and scholar. First worked her entire life to end apartheid in South Africa, writing in 1969 she explained how she her life was dedicated ‘to the liberation of African for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer’. Her knowledge of the continent was phenomenal and she knew many of the continent’s leading political figures Nelson Mandela, Ben Bella, Oginda Odinga. First was an influential figure, who saw activism, solidarity work (for the anti-apartheid struggle) and her research and writing as inextricably linked. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964, with her husband, the prominent South African communist Joe Slovo and their children. In 1982, while working in Mozambique, Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb sent by South Africa secret service.
2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of Ruth First’s murder. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau are holding a one-day celebration of Ruth First’s extraordinary life and work. The event is part of year long project that is digitising some of Ruth First’s papers and books held at the ICS.
The event will include Justice Albie Sachs, Gillian Slovo, Barbara Harlow, Shula Marks and Alan Wieder.
Cost: £10 (standard); £5 (students/unwaged) (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration form
RSVP to chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Also as part of the project a symposium is planned for the 7th of June, details below:
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
07 June 2012, 10:00 - 19:00
Room 349 (Senate House, University of London)
This event is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Ruth First was an anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist, and scholar. First worked her entire life to end apartheid in South Africa, writing in 1969 she explained how she her life was dedicated ‘to the liberation of African for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer’. Her knowledge of the continent was phenomenal and she knew many of the continent’s leading political figures Nelson Mandela, Ben Bella, Oginda Odinga. First was an influential figure, who saw activism, solidarity work (for the anti-apartheid struggle) and her research and writing as inextricably linked. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964, with her husband, the prominent South African communist Joe Slovo and their children. In 1982, while working in Mozambique, Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb sent by South Africa secret service.
2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of Ruth First’s murder. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau are holding a one-day celebration of Ruth First’s extraordinary life and work. The event is part of year long project that is digitising some of Ruth First’s papers and books held at the ICS.
The event will include Justice Albie Sachs, Gillian Slovo, Barbara Harlow, Shula Marks and Alan Wieder.
Cost: £10 (standard); £5 (students/unwaged) (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration form
RSVP to chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
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