Maori Purposes Fund Board Project'

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Nga Taonga Tuku Iho. Digitisation of Iwi/Hapu
Knowledge
Presenters Jim Nicholls David Bainbridge
Greenstone Digital Library Software
www.greenstone.org
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The Hauraki Digital Experience.. Our interest
is driven by our passion to educate our children

• We have accumulated information and data that
  is inaccessible to our children.
• Our children need to hear the stories of
  kaumatua and kuia to know and understand their
  cultural heritage.
• Our schools need access to iwi/hapu knowledge
  to share in the richness of our tikanga.

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Organisation, Preservation, and Access.
1.Text Information
Reports
Records
Submissions
Histories
Stories
2.Fixed Images
Libraries
Museums
Galleries
Public
Private
3.Audio Sound Data
4.Video Image Data
Board
Private
Radio Stations
Board
Private
Commercial
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Waikato University, Greenstone and Hauraki.

• They had worked with UNESCO and developed
  software for indigenous people.
• It is a New Zealand grown product used
  internationally, but not widely used in New
  Zealand.
• There is a strong Hauraki-Tainui connection
  with the University through Tainui waka.
• A willingness by Computer Sciences to help
  develop open source software from the Hauraki
  Experience to support other iwi/hapu
  organisations .

Greenstone Digital Library Software
www.greenstone.org
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• AboutGreenstone
• Example media
• Text, newspapers, photos, music, audio, and video
  
• Example languages
• Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Hebrew, Maori,
  Russian, Spanish, Thai,
• Accessibility
• Over the Web, CD Rom, DVD
• Standards
• Dublin Core, Z39.50, OAI, METS

Available open source through www.greenstone.org
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Humanity Development

• for sustainable development and basic human needs

Greenstone Digital Library Software
www.greenstone.org
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The Digital Library in Simplicity.

• 4. Finding Info and data
• Text
• Still Images
• Audio
• Video
• Data is found.

• 1. Gather Core Material
• Text
• Still Images
• Audio
• Video
• Data is gathered.

2. Digitise to Computer Data is digitised.
3. Build digital library Data is selected and
enriched
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Building a Digital Library.

• Decisions need to made on the Collections

Our Claims
Our Stories
Our Marae
Our History
Our Children
Our Environment
Cross Collection Support
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Enriching the Collection
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Conclusion

• The aim is to allow iwi-hapu to organise,
  preserve and access data with the emphasis on
  access.
• The information is there mai ra ano.
• It provides a teaching/learning resource that can
  be accessed worldwide.
• This new era of information technology brings
  Maori into the digital age.
• There is more to be done to ensure that the
  system moves beyond the trial stages to a usable,
  reliable programme that is user friendly.
• We want to negotiate with interested parties to
  further the work that we are doing in this area.
  
• We acknowledge the support that we have received
  from the National Turnbull Library and the Maori
  Purposes Fund Board.