DigitalNZ is an initiative that aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.

We test and develop approaches that increase the amount of New Zealand content flowing through the Digital Content Life Cycle. New Zealand is a small place with big ideas, and we need to create and digitise more New Zealand content so we can stay digitally connected to our own stories, creations, knowledge and culture.

Solutions

At every step through this life cycle there are bottlenecks and constraints that limit the amount of NZ digital content available for use. Since launching in December 2008 we have developed the following solutions:

• The Make it Digital helpdesk for helping people through all aspects of the digital content life cycle
• The Community Kete for the hosting of local community content
• The Shared Repository for the hosting of NZ research content and data in collaboration with the Ministry of Research Science and Technology
• The DigitalNZ Search service that aggregates NZ digital content from a range of content providers
• The Custom Search Builder for creating unique NZ search tools for use in classrooms and on websites
• The Hosted Search service for providing fully branded NZ search experiences like Matapihi
• The DigitalNZ API data sharing service that allows developers to build entirely new tools and applications
• The Video Remix Editor demonstration of how licensed digital content can be used to create wholely new content experiences

 Fitting it all together

Who are we?

DigitalNZ is a collaborative initiative led by the National Library of New Zealand. We work with a wide range of contributing institutions and organisations. Without these content providers and their content, DigitalNZ would not be possible. We also work with:

• Boost New Media for user interface design and front-end development
• Codec for back-end development

Also thanks to the following for support in the first 12 months of our life:

• 3Months for front-end development
• Aotearoa Peoples Network and Katipo for the DigitalNZ Kete
• Ideum for the remix editor