National Digital Forum 2013 – Day 1 now on YouTube

Day one of talks from last year’s National Digital Forum at Te Papa are now available on YouTube.

If you are interested to find out about all things digital in NZ’s GLAM sector this is the place for you!

Topics include WW100, creating a digital marae, the Dunedin flat names project, developing NZ sign language archive, terminology control (one for all you cataloguers out there), using volunteers in digitisation projects, digital publishing and more.

Presentation vary in length from around 10 minutes to half an hour or more.

NDF 2013 – keynote talks now on YouTube

The four keynote papers from last year’s National Digital forum can now be found on YouTube. They are:

• Simon Tanner, Director of Digital Consulting at King’s College, London, talks about Avoiding the Digital Death Spiral – Surviving and Thriving Through Understanding the Value and Impact of Digital Culture – this paper considers the impact and purpose of digitising collections.
• Peter Gorgels, Internet Manager at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, presents the awesome Rijksstudio, Make Your Own Masterpiece – an innovative and fun way to get digitised collections out there.
• Deborah Howes, Director of Digital Learning at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, considers From mobile to MOOC: how and why art museum engage digital publics – sharing learning through online courses
• Ed Summers, Information Technology Specialist, Library of Congress, ponders The Web as a preservation medium – how on earth do you archive the internet??

All are well worth a look and last around 50 minutes.