A great deal of the world’s valuable cultural heritage is audio-visual material and it is a race against time to protect and preserve them.
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As a key member of the executive management team, the Finance Manager will interact across everyone in the group’s two companies, NZMS and Recollect.
Phase One medium format digital cameras produce images with unequalled quality and provide a solution for accurate digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts. They are the camera of choice for NZMS and are often utilised for large format projects that require very high resolutions.
Stephen Hardman has been appointed the role of Business Development Manager (BDM) for the Southern Region and brings with him a wealth of expertise. A central focus of the role is maintaining and building on existing customer relationships, while also making new connections, to enable NZMS’s growth within the region – and Stephen’s extensive experience aligns perfectly with this mission.
Understanding what copyright is, and what it means for different organisations, is an important topic for everyone in the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector to consider. In short, Copyright is the right to control the reproduction of original work. This resource is a guideline only and introduces the nuances of copyright relevant to the CH sector in New Zealand.
New Zealand Micrographic Services (NZMS) today announces that it is splitting Recollect from NZMS into a separate legal entity. Recollect was developed by NZMS as a cloud-based Special Collection Management and Community Engagement Platform for the Cultural Heritage and Archive sector.
New technologies in digitisation are paving the way for more accurate and visually descriptive preservation of cultural heritage collections. Of these new technologies, NZMS is embracing structured light 3D scanning to capture objects 3-dimensionally, delivering multiple viewpoints and allowing for an increased sense of tangibility – superior to a typical photograph.
During MTG’s collection management hazard identification project, the Collection Coordinator, Sara Perrett, and Collection Management, Nicole Wall, discovered a series of negatives in their photographic collection that appeared to be cellulose nitrate film.