Utaina: Connecting Aotearoa through Digitised Sound and Story : Poster - iPRES 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
Abstract
Delve into the impacts of Utaina, a multi-year collaborative digitisation project with the goal of preserving Aotearoa’s at-risk audiovisual taonga. Over the course of the project, 70,000 digitised audiovisual materials have been made available virtually by the National Library and Archives New Zealand. Many items that have been digitised are culturally significant and unavailable to researchers elsewhere. For example, most of the music research requests through Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa’s Virtual Reading Room (VRR) have been Pasifika music distributed on small labels in the 1970-90s such as Samoa Daystar Records, Polynesian Records, and Vision Recording Studio. The requests are primarily made by researchers conducting family research, wanting to connect with the music of their parents or grandparents. In most cases, the VRR provides the only copy these researchers can find on the internet. Our presentation will provide insights for how digitisation has helped to preserve the content stored on the at-risk items for future generations and reduced barriers to accessing them.Details
- Creators
- Zak Argabrite; Cynthia Wu; Joshua Ng
- Institutions
- Date
- 2025-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- digital humanities
- Publication Type
- poster
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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