http://hdl.handle.net/10063/62 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:38 GMT 2012-02-09T21:46:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1061 Generating the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand website, using XSLT running on a Condor grid Tuohy, Conal This is a report on an experimental NZETC project to speed up the automated regeneration of a large website by using VUW's Condor computing grid. The aim of the project was to investigate the feasibility of using the grid as a platform for website generation. The project did not extend to generating the entire website, though it did produce the bulk of it, and did successfully demonstrate the feasibility of using the grid for similar work in future. The grid-based application has shown the grid to be a good platform for generating large websites from XML source materials. The application was able to generate around 80 thousand web pages in about 4 hours, making it many times quicker than a system based on a single computer. The project also highlighted a few technical issues with the Condor grid, relating to the use of file folders in grid jobs; prioritisation of grid nodes based on the opening hours of the computer labs; and the special configuration of computers running Microsoft Windows. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:31 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1061 2009-10-28T21:16:31Z http://hdl.handle.net/10063/608 Digitisation and Matauranga Maori Stevenson, Alison; Callaghan, Samantha In 2007 the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre undertook the digitisation of H. G. Robley's 'Moko; or Maori Tattooing' along with associated contextual material. This project prompted much thought and debate within the Centre about the propriety of making such material freely available online and highlighted a number of issues which are likely common to most cultural and heritage organisations looking to undertake the digitisation of Maori-based material. Throughout periods of colonisation indigenous knowledge has been collected by ethnographers, anthropologists, and others, and much of this has found its way into the collections of libraries and archives. This is true in New Zealand as it is overseas. However, despite the existence of this material and a national digital strategy that promotes the benefits of online access to cultural and heritage material, the numbers of organisations who have digitised representations of Matauranga Maori are few. Within the contexts of both international discourse on indigenous knowledge and the NZETC project this paper addresses these issues which fall into the categories of ownership, control, access, and consultation which we also attempt to frame using the corresponding Te Ao Marama concepts of rangatiratanga and kaitiakitanga, mana and putanga, and korerorero whanui. Questions arise in terms of ownership of not just the physical objects themselves but also the knowledge encoded within them, issues of who has the right to control that knowledge and determine who may access it and who may not, as well as discovering who it is appropriate to consult with and how institutions may respond to the results of consultation. We ask whether these issues act as barriers to digitisation of Matauranga Maori material and consequently whether they provide an explanation for the relative scarcity of these types of projects. Finally we identify opportunities that organisations can gain from undertaking such projects. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:39:19 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10063/608 2008-10-27T22:39:19Z http://hdl.handle.net/10063/415 Doctoral Theses Digitisation Mason, Ingrid A doctoral theses digitisation project began in March 2008 and was estimated to be complete by November 2008. The phases (some overlapping) of the project were: contract settlement; database development; batch processing (itemisation and transportation); letter generation (permissions); and item processing (receipt of digital files). The planning, implementation, business and technical details of the thesis digitisation project are described in this report. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:20:10 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10063/415 2008-09-04T03:20:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/10063/336 Topic Maps and Entity Authority Records: an Effective Cyber Infrastructure for Digital Humanities Stevenson, Alison; Norrish, Jamie The implicit connections and cross-references between and within texts, which occur in all print collections, can be made explicit in a collection of electronic texts. Correctly encoded and exposed they create a framework to support resource discovery and navigation by following links between topics. This framework provides opportunities to visualise dense points of interconnection and, deployed across otherwise separate collections, can reveal unforeseen networks and associations. Thus approached, the creation and online delivery of digital texts moves from a digital library model with its goal as the provision of access, to a digital humanities model directed towards the innovative use of information technologies to derive new knowledge from our cultural inheritance. Using this approach the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) has developed a delivery system for its collection of over 2500 New Zealand and Pacifc Island texts using TEI XML, the ISO Topic Map technology and innovative entity authority management. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:38:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10063/336 2008-07-22T04:38:59Z