For the Music Month of May we called for Sets that interpret Kiwi songs. And boy did you deliver!
After listening to your favourite tunes from Split Enz to Darcy Clay, music specialists here at the National Library have picked one DigitalNZ Set to win a $50 iTunes prize. And the winner is...
Thanks to musical setmaker Richard Robertson, who sent us this stylish representation of the Muttonbirds' haunting tune.
We also highly recommend...
May in Aotearoa means NZ Music Month! Share some homegrown musical love with us by creating your next set to a tune.
Simply represent any Kiwi song in a DigitalNZ set, and tell us the name of the song in the title or description. Tweet, Facebook or email the link to us by 6pm Friday 17th May and be in to win a $50 iTunes voucher.
Our friendly music specialists at the National Library of New Zealand are all geared up to pick the winner on 22nd May.
To get started
Today 50 New Zealand educators have flocked to the new National Library building in Wellington for Digital Discovery Day. The National Library Services to Schools team are hosting our visitors for workshops, discussion and presentations on 21st century literacy and the use of digital resources in the classroom.
Our DigitalNZ session looked at the 'information age', 'digital literacy', and how DigitalNZ works. We also had a chance to play with DigitalNZ...
The V.C. Browne and Son collection is one of the largest New Zealand historical aerial photograph collections available online. Currently there are almost 30,000 photographs that are available through DigitalNZ, and more than 4,000 records are free for reuse as there is no known copyright restrictions.
In 2009, Roger Barclay, the grand son-in-law of V.C. Browne contacted us with this unique photograph collection. We were thrilled with such amazing collection and the great...
Manawatu Memory Online contains more than 4,500 digitized records from the Palmerston North City Library and the Ian Matheson City Archives collections. Over 2,000 records have no known copyright restrictions and are available for reuse. This collection is constantly growing as resources are digitized and made available online. Thanks to the hard work from the team behind the Manawatu Memory Online, there is a wide range of material for us to access, from historical photographs to...
After the devastating Christchurch Earthquake in 2011, the University of Canterbury and its consortium partners set up the UC Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive to preserve photos, videos, documents and audio files relating to the disaster and the subsequent rebuild of the city.
The UC CEISMIC website is a federated discovery service for all this amazing content with a search function powered by DigitalNZ. Browsing will bring up tens of thousands of results from...
Archives New Zealand gather, store protect and provide access to over 4 million records of the New Zealand’s public archives. They hold almost 200 years of New Zealand history in all accessible forms, including documents, maps, films, photographs and more.
The teams at Archives New Zealand work hard to make sure the public can access New Zealand historical records in more effective ways. Over 400 digitized historical films are available to view and share via Archive New Zealand’s Youtube...
DigitalNZ is a proud organiser of this year's Mix & Mash: The New Storytelling. We're joining our friends at Creative Commons Aotearoa and the National Library to bring you a three-part program of remix and mashup greatness. The first submission window is officially open!
You have until 10 May 2013 to submit a compelling story for prizes and publicity. It must must remix or mashup New Zealand open content or data and tell us something entertaining, useful, and/or beautiful about the...
Searching on DigitalNZ just got a whole lot better. Now when we show you image results they are tiled down the page in a continuously loading stream.
Tiling items together helps eyes focus on the visual aspect of the records, rather than just the title or descriptive information. We hope that the useful and beautiful items you're looking for jump out easily now. It's a visually exquisite way of exploring the collections from our 120+ content...
The Papers Past website contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 77 publications from all regions of New Zealand. DigitalNZ harvests and points to items from these publications, which means more than 24 million pieces of content from Papers Past on our API.
We have found many Newspapers items about the upcoming Wellington Anniversary on Monday. The first Wellington Anniversary was...
