Digital New Zealand - helping make New Zealand content easier to find share and use 
Fiona Rigby, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
Virginia Gow, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
Andy Neale, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
Lewis Brown, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
Courtney Johnston, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
Gordon Paynter, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand
http://www.digitalnz.org
Digital New Zealand aims to help make New Zealand content easy to find, share and use. It is testing new ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools. The project is working with New Zealand organisations, communities and individuals to aggregate their metadata and help make hard to find content available for discovery, use and re-use in unique ways. The first wave of the project has included three innovative tools. A customisable search builder lets people design their own search widget to find the type of New Zealand content they are interested in. New Zealanders can craft their own commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice using the Memory Maker - a tool that lets people remix film, photographs, objects and audio clips into a short video that can then be saved, shared, and embedded. Finally, an open API enables developers to connect the metadata that fuels DigitalNZ with other data sources, enabling new digital experiences, knowledge, and understanding.
Mini-Workshop: Project Briefing: Digital New Zealand APIs and widgets for open collaboration [Mini-Workshop]
Keywords: cultural heritage, collaboration, Web 2.0, API, metadata, open content, DigitalNZ, Web services, remix
