- New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
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The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) is a unit of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. The NZETC has an ongoing programme of digitisation and feature additions to the current holdings. In the beginning of 2009 the collection contained over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day.[1]
Apart from providing texts and materials itself, NZETC also works on creating a community skilled in the use and creation of digital materials, through training and projects and works together with other organisations.[2]
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Projects and activities
The NZETC works with partners within Victoria University on different projects, like
- Turbine, a literary journal (in cooperation with the International Institute of Modern Letters, also at Victoria)
- Best New Zealand Poems (in cooperation with the International Institute of Modern Letters, also at Victoria)
- Kotare, an online journal on NZ studies (in cooperation with the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, also at Victoria)
- Tidal Pools, to make available texts on Pacific islands history, language, culture and politics (in cooperation with Va'aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies unit, also at Victoria)
- Design Review, a Wellington architecture and design magazine from the late 1940's and early 1950's
The NZETC has also projects with external partners, like:
- digitisation and e-publishing of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868 – 1961 (in cooperation with the National Library of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library)
- Learning Media (in cooperation with the Ministry of Education
- La Trobe Journal (in cooperation with the Australian State Library of Victoria)[3]
Copyrights
When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).[4]
Methodology and Technology
The NZETC is a part of the Text Encoding Initiative community of practice. They encoding all their textual content in TEI XML which is transformed dynamically into HTML using XSL.[5] Authority files are maintained for works, people, places and, unusually, ships.[6] Topic Maps are used for the main website structure.
References
- ^ About NZETC on the official website
- ^ Information on NZETC on the website of the New Zealand Book Council
- ^ About the NZETC projects
- ^ About copyrights on NZETC
- ^ http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About-technology.html
- ^ http://authority.nzetc.org/
External links
Categories:- Education in New Zealand
- Geographic region-oriented digital libraries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Libraries in New Zealand
- Text Encoding Initiative
- Historic document collections
- Digital Humanities Centers
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