Making the invisible visible - a new way to provide a window into our digital collections

Wednesday November 21st, 12:00pm-12:25pm @ Rangimarie 2 - Breakout Room

The Discovery Wall is an interactive exhibition that showcases some of Christchurch City Libraries digitised collection. Composed into a digital psychogeographic map of Christchurch, this unique experience is on a massive touch screen wall located on the ground floor of Tūranga. Multiple users can explore the past and present of our city on this digital interface and can comment on and share images with others. It is created from over 1000 cut-out ‘Hero’ images of buildings, streets, landscapes, events and people to generate a collage that users can explore at the touch of a finger. Several thousand more images are available to explore through the curated albums attached to the Hero images, tags and search functionality.

The Discovery Wall is accompanied by a website at discoverywall.nz where the images can be explored and searched, commented on and shared. This is where the public can contribute their own images and stories to the collection. The Libraries will also add more content over time so the number of images accessed through the Discovery Wall will continue to increase.

In addition to the Discovery Wall in Tūranga and the website, there is also a mobile version that will tour around to other libraries in the network and go out for Outreach programs and events.

Paul Sutherland , Christchurch Libraries, Content Innovation Library

Sarah Snelling , Christchurch City Libraries, Digital Curation Librarian