Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to nzlemming,
the Encyclopedia of NZ
Side issue, but a classic example of major investment of public funds in producing a site that fails official accessibility standards, and not fixed since. Not that I'm saying you need any reminding, Mark, but it would be nice for the nation's formal memory to be available to all its citizens, not just the non-disabled ones.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to paynter,
Is there any evidence this actually happened?
I thought it was pretty widely publicised. Surely media archives can help you verify? :)
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Russell C,
History shows us what occurred when last ANZ was part of DIA (and NatLib even longer before that)
Worth remembering that preventing disasters like last time's damage to the nation's founding document has to be a higher priority from slashed public sector budgets than adding a new service.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That's exactly what I've been trying to say.
There's a relief. I added the word 'mana' too. Libraries and archives have that as well, no question.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to paynter,
You've made the argument that libraries / archives can't do this work (or a large part of it) because they lack certain skills
Perhaps better to think of it as certain relationships and mana with key stakeholders, rather than skills. People don't trust others with their taonga only because of skills.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Tamsin6,
librarians and archivists are just people, you think we don’t listen to music, engage with music, have mates who are in bands, in the recording industry, have ourselves been in the recording industry in a previous career etc etc etc? So yes, experience with and expertise in all kinds of music
I know and respect some funky librarians. However they seem to have little influence over the priorities of their institutions' collections and engaging the public in those.
Perhaps that's a matter of insufficient resources but it must affect perceptions about relying on libraries and existing archives as sole hosts of our nation's musical history and culture. From what I've read here, it seems 'doing with' is the answer, not 'doing for'.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
expertise and experience in music fields
Like Kiwi pop/rock/indie/hiphop/electronica?
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to paynter,
making what we have publicly accessible
Any detail on how you envisage doing that? Seems to be the area where contextualising adds value.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to recordari,
WINDLAND
likes
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Understood