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Kete Horowhenua

• The stories of the district
• as told by its people .

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Once upon a Time ..
In a place far, far away, there was a Kingdom
called Horowhenua.
And that Kingdom had a great Struggle with Many
of its Treasures in Peril from Vermin and Damp
and no Castle to Store them in or Place for
Scholars to come and gaze upon their Loveliness .
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Help us ! The Town People cried ..

• The heritage sector was challenged trying to
  balance the conflicting goals of access while
  preserving and protecting.
• The Councillors were concerned as well. In 2002
  they commissioned a research report. Bayly,
  Janet. Arts, Culture and Heritage in Horowhenua
  Access, Participation, Co-ordination,
  Celebration. 2002/03

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Our Manuscripts Overfloweth

• Horowhenua Library Trust had long supported
  the historical societies of the District.
• Aging volunteers grappled with the backlog of
  heritage donations.
• A steady stream of donations, including
  unsolicited digital images, flowed in as a result
  of a small online catalogue of digital images.
• Some groups had limited storage facilities, but
  others stored collections in a number of barely
  suitable venues.

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Our People cant see our Treasures

• A major concern was the lack of access to arts,
  cultural and heritage information.
• Levin has no museum or archive, and no art
  gallery or public exhibition space.
• Several small specialised museums found it
  difficult to staff regular opening hours.

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The Good Knights gathered at the Round

• Horowhenua Library Trust was asked to formulate a
  collective way forward that would maximise
  precious resources of finance, expertise, space
  and manpower.

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And set out to Find out the Truth ..

• In 2004 the Library Trust carried out an audit of
  Arts, Culture and Heritage resources to assess
  the extent of the resources currently held in the
  District and the long-term 'safety' of these
  resources for future generations.

• Findings
• There is a large amount of material in private
  hands.
• About half may be given to public collections
  but half never will.
• Most of it is available for loan or copying.
• Lots of information is in peoples heads.
• Everyone knew someone else with more material and
  knowledge.
• People really do care about arts, cultural and
  heritage resources.
• Physical space is a real issue.Ransom, Joann
  and Blake, Rosalie. Arts, Culture and Heritage
  in Horowhenua an audit of resources 2004 prepared
  for Horowhenua District Council.

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And Great Thoughts were had

• We had defined the problems.
• There is no ideal solution.
• Which problems could we fix?
• Which solutions were achievable?

• We consulted with focus groups
• Historians
• Genealogists
• Artists
• Students and researchers
• Librarians
• Council staff

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And a French Knight came from across the Oceans
to join the Quest
A Library Science intern came and spent 4 months
researching

• Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 initiatives offshore.
• Licensing options for contributed content.
• Terms and conditions.
• Risk analysis for the Library Trust.

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The Quest

• We defined the achievable

• To get public collections accessible by getting
  them online.
• To get private collections online too.
• To get the stories out of peoples heads.
• To include both historical and contemporary
  material.
• To create a virtual exhibition space for
  artists and craftspeople.
• To inspire a workforce of volunteers.

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And a Pathway Appeared in the Mist

• A collaboratively built digital library of arts,
  culture and heritage.
• Images, video, audio, documents, weblinks,
  encyclopedia-like articles and discussion threads
  with related material clustered together.
• Contemporary and historical content.
• Had to look gorgeous and be very clever but had
  to look simple and behave intuitively.
• Self managing and monitoring as far as possible
  no layer of library expertise needed.
• Open source and open standards with an online
  community supporting it.

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And lo! More Treasure Flowed forth
We considered possible sources of records and how
best to add them to the Kete database.
Federated Searching
Direct Input
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And the Ladies of the Town came to Labour
Many volunteers came forward to help prepare
digital content for Kete

• Typing
• Scanning
• Transcribing
• Indexing
• Promoting

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The Kete
The processes and functions that we required of
Kete. We had to work out from the start exactly
how Kete would work.
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And it looketh glorious indeed
Featured Topics are changed monthly, and users
can search by Keyword or Browse. Online help is
extensive.
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From Chaos
came Order

• Photos are just one type of ITEM. Other ITEM
  types are documents, video, audio and weblinks.
• Related ITEMS can be gathered together into
  clusters by linking them to a TOPIC.
• A TOPIC is an article or encyclopedia entry about
  any subject, person, place, event or thing that
  someone wants to write about.

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Search Results
Search results are sorted by Item type, and
accessed by clicking on the correct tab.
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Topic Pages
Topic pages are created with a text editor.
They can be plain text, or extensively formatted
and illustrated.
Trevor created this page with no assistance from
us.
and then we had to ask him how to use OUR Kete so
successfully !!!
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And the Great People were Revered
Linked images and linked topics display here
Corries genealogy is shown here
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and SuchVisions as never before were Beheld

• Kete was launched with seed content from the
  public collections of Foxton and Horowhenua
  Historical Societies.
• Our Kete users are adding their own private
  collections.
• Council staff are adding records from official
  archives.
• The Library is gathering and creating new digital
  local content.

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and All People had a Part to Play

• Search by keywords, or just browse
• View linked items and topics and what others have
  to say.
• Register for RSS feeds so you can see changes to
  records you are interested in.
• Contact other people with similar interests.
• Edit records by typing in tags or keywords to
  help other people find an item or topic.
• Discuss or comment on Items or topics
• Upload new photos, documents, audio or video
  footage, or find and enter relevant websites.
• Write new topics or stories
• Link Items together into meaningful subject
  clusters

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and New Legends are Born

• A new topic is created by using a
  template. Templates help craft the information
  by suggesting useful details to include.

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And Drawn together into Wondrous Form
1. Enter a search subject to find images
X
2. Select image with a click

• Topics are linked to items of any format by a
  simple search and click process.

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And other Towns came and Gazed upon the Kete
Need a better picture we do not Kete likened to
a dead horse!
with Wonder

• We have had lots of inquiries in the Kete
  Project. We plan to release Kete 1.0 later this
  year as an Open Source project, complete with
• A Configuration wizard for easy download and
  installation.
• A Skin module so each Kete installation can have
  a distinctive look.
• An Import wizard to populate a new Kete with
  records drawn from a Past Perfect museum
  collection management system.
• A Kete.net.nz community for users and developers.

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And Kete was Loosed upon the World
and we Watched

• Horowhenua Library Trust is committed to
  supporting the spread and development of Kete
• Participating in the kete.net.nz forums
• Offering advanced training programmes

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And the Kete did Swell
and Grow

• Database growth over the 12 weeks since launch

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As word spread
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throughout the Globe
and people came
Preparing for the Adopt an ANZAC exhibition
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And the Town Folk were Happy
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and Everyone lived Happily ever after.

• Credits
• Theme music from Braveheart - sourced from
  allofmp3.com
• Paintings sourced from Google images
• Siege of Anitoch
• F.C. Hein Salon of 1824
• 15th century painting - The Knights of the Round
  Table
• Tommaso de Modena - Saint Albert the Great
• Bede - King Arthur
• Guillaume Caoursin
• Dante Gabriel Rosselli - The Holy Grail

The End
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and Everyone lived Happily ever after.
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