Jul 15, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Libraries, Planning
Museum Theatre Gallery Hawke’s Bay (MTG) houses a vast collection and archive spanning across textiles, taonga, art, newspapers, and photographs. During MTG’s collection management hazard identification project, the Collection Coordinator, Sara Perrett, and Collection...
Jul 8, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Museums
Our digitisation team in Wellington have recently completed a project digitising a large collection of Glass Plate Negatives for Whanganui Collegiate School Museum and Archives. Glass Plate Negatives Glass Plate Negatives predate sheet and roll film, and during the...
Nov 12, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Audio, Case Studies, Digitise
Our War. The Grim Digs. New Zealand Soldiers in North Africa, 1940-1943”, published by Penguin in 2005. The interview process took place between 2001 and 2003 and Martyn had the recordings transcribed. This was a painstaking job that was important for maintaining a...
Oct 10, 2018 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper, Print, Replica
Significant historical documents are at the mercy of time. Often fragile and holding important and irreplaceable information, it is crucial that these documents be both preserved and accessible. Handling, exposure to light, and fluctuating environmental...
Aug 22, 2018 | Artist, Case Studies, Digitise, Gallery, Nigel Roper
A collection of unseen works from prominent New Zealand Artist of the 1950’s Leonard Mitchell has been digitised and printed as high-quality reproductions for Mitchell Studios, managed by Leonard’s niece Anna Reed (née Mitchell). Born in 1925, Leonard was...
Jul 30, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Case Studies, Digitise
The Bulford Kiwi is still visible from across the Salisbury Plains in Southern England today, though only after significant restoration, as Colleen discusses along with its history, in her book The Bulford Kiwi: The Kiwi We Left Behind. Over the intervening 3 years...
