Nothing has changed.

The quality of journalism in New Zealand has…

TV3 won the coveted Best News trophy. Campbell Live, 3 News and 60 Minutes each won their categories, and TV3's Duncan Garner was named TV Journalist of the Year...

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Looking at the programmes of both it would appear that the Auckland event is aimed at…

The Auckland City Library has lot of old photographs and maps of the city, and presents them at a scale where you can actually look at them. It's quite fun.

Hell yeah! I spent hours one night trawling for old photos of Mt Eden, looking for one with my flat…

Some of them present images much better than others. The Auckland City Library has lot of old photographs and maps of the city, and presents them at a scale where you can…

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this what the govt's digital strategy all about? Hasn't $24 Mln been set aside for digitising and isn't the National Library meant to be driving this?

Yup – and we should be hearing more about this next week at the National Digital Forum in Wellington…

Archives and libraries spend forever debating what to digitise. No one seems to grasp the fact that not…

The idea that any publicity is good publicity is bollocks.

Well, yes, David and rodgerd but that wasn't really my point. I've been doing radio pieces for the last nine months, and while the money is nice, it's rather nice that they're heard by someone. Whether successfully or not is…

Other than to say you're not allowed to misrepresent yourself (by claiming something as yours that isn't) for commercial gain, as always.

Leave us with trademarks, which still seem…

There are, it should be noted girls'-own stories amongst the Maoriland works too

Actually, Bernard and Jack's 'Adventures with the Maoris' was written by a chick. A worthy predecessor to Enid Blyton.

You're obviously more hooked into the arts scene that I, but could you point to any artist who doesn't want their work seen and discussed?

I'm not much of an artist (I've sold a few prints and given permission for photos to be used ina Metropolitan Police presentation and a…

You're obviously more hooked into the arts scene that I, but could you point to any artist who doesn't want their work seen and discussed?

I am of course only speaking for myself, but I put my work on the net because I want it to be seen by people…

Contrast Te Papa and other NZ public institutions with the British Museum, which is quietly releasing it's collection onto the web

thankyou, thankyou, thankyou – you just made me cry. I have had a love affair with Durer since first studying his work as part of my art history degree.…

You're obviously more hooked into the arts scene that I, but could you point to any artist who doesn't want their work seen and discussed?

I'm sure that's not their reasoning. If like Russell, the use of the material relates to income, then restricting the access to it online and…

I would have thought – regardless of how personal or not the view might be – that the book and the series was extending the reach of the museum and gallery collections and that was a good thing!

YYes, and while 'cultural sensitivity' is a damn fine thing, but I…

I love Hunterwassers Koru Flag

Like a fern sprouting
Like a wave of nature
Like a flag unfolding

http://liong-faye.org.nz/koru-flag/

Which brings me to: My Hobbyhorse: I would dearly love to see a modest contestable fund to which individuals could apply to have a work digitised by the archive that holds it.

Some archives are "better" than others in this regard I think. [[http://thegathering.co.nz/97-98/video/gathering-documentary.html|The…

Choosing not to use Creative Commons does not necessarily mean instinctively clinging to strict copyright control, nor does asserting copyright mean locking something away so that no-one can experience it.

I agree. Public Address's contents aren't Creative Commons, in part because, especially with System, so many people's "works" are involved…

Te Ara, too, is niggardly over the quality of image it will provide. What's the point? It's not as if the originals will get grubby.

Many of the images on the Te Ara website don't belong to Te Ara in the first instance -…

Which brings me to: My Hobbyhorse: I would dearly love to see a modest contestable fund to which individuals could apply to have a work digitised by the archive that holds it.

That's an interesting idea. I wonder if the archivist would respond – that does little good at all…

I am glad you raised this subject of images and institutions. Frankly the whole business of images for the series and the book The Big Picture was a nightmare of bureacratic obstruction, pettiness and greed.

The worst one I ever struck was Jolisa Gracewood's experience in sourcing material to complete…

I can absolutely see why people instinctively want to cling to strict copyright control, but if you lock something away (like Hamish Keith's example of Maori art being stifled by museum's red tape), then no one gets to experience it, and that is the real loss.

Choosing not to use…

When I did my honours dissertation, I used about a dozen photos which were in their collections, for which they wanted to charge me $50/image or something. I wrangled around them by having the…

I'm a bit of an advocate for Creative Commons, but when it actually came to adopting it myself, it felt a bit strange, like I was losing…

the 'macho cultural nationalists' – do you mean Curnow, Glover, Sargeson, Fairburn?

As Belich points out it's hard not to be amused by Fairburn, who used to light the hairs on his chest for the amusement of children, as one of his party tricks.

Oh, I love Fairburn — of…

As Belich points out it's hard not to be amused by Fairburn, who used to light the hairs on his chest for the amusement of children, as one of his party tricks.

I've just done a fair bit…

To be honest, if the artwork is online, and viewable in a reasonably good quality, uncorrupted form, what does it matter if they assert copyright?

Yeah, I don't mind that — although I viscerally objected to the "sample" stamps that used to run across the Turnbull's web images — but…

I think that's an important principle. I was glad when the Turnbull stopped vandalising its small online images with "sample" watermarks, but I feel bound to note that institutions in other countries don't feel the need to run copyright warnings under every image on their websites.

Ugh, copyrights over images…

I thought this, from Charlotte Evans' Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand, was pretty:

From the windows of our sitting-room, and from…

But upon reading it, I realised that it was the pre-20th century use of "make love", meaning to pay amorous…

What a bad way of doing it ...

Poor Bernard and Jack.

Priceless.

Contrast Te Papa and other NZ public institutions with the British Museum, which is quietly releasing it's collection onto the web: image database.

And you know what the really good part of that page is? It's these words:

If you wish to use an image from this site on another…

Poor Bernard and Jack.

...the general appearance of the people was dirty, and the smell which…

Excellent song to annoy people on long car journeys.

Lucy Graham was working very hard at a number of fancy bags and baskets, evidently intended for a Christmas tree, when her brother George entered the room.…

(Actually, I just checked, and all I have down in my heart is an old tyre swing, a broken microwave and a dried up marker pen.)

someone to go through it with some joy in their heart

I've got that joy joy joy joy down in my heart.
Where?
Down in my heart.
Where?
Down in my heart.
Where?
Down in my heart to stay.

I've got that peace that passes understanding down in my heart.........etc…