Pre-conference DigitalNZ workshops at NDF2012

In 2012 DigitalNZ ran pre-conference workshop the day before the full conference. Also held at Te Papa, they went for only $10 each to cover catering... the costs were kept low to make them accessible to everyone, but get in quick.

Monday, November 19th

All about search
9:00 am - 12:00 pm (3 hours)

Search is hard... shouldn't we just leave this to Google? Join our panel of experts and dive into the nuts and bolts of search. Explore best practices in museum search services, the ins and outs of the Solr search platform, behind the scenes with parallel-flickr, and version three of the DigitalNZ Search API. This workshop will be run by famed NDF international keynotes Nate Solas and Aaron Straup Cope, with a special guest appearance from NZ's very own Chris McDowall.

Nate Solas’s presentation

Chris McDowall’s presentation

Aaron Straup Cope’s links 

Learn how to Make with Ponoko

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (3 hours) 

A making revolution is sweeping the world, and galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can all be a part of it. Learn the basics of how to make things using a personal factory from Ponoko - electronics, homeware, fashion & furniture are all possibilities. This workshop will take you through the process of designing something, choosing materials, and ordering it in 2D or 3D. Learn about how these digital tools can be used in our organisations and public spaces.

2012 Keynote speakers

Honest to goodness... the keynotes this year were incredible. Catch the video recordings.

Piotr Adamczyk - Google Art Project

Piotr has been exploring the possibilities for exchange between practices in the sciences and evaluation techniques from the arts. Most recently he led development on the Google Art Project. Before that he held an analyst position with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a background in Mathematics and Computer Science, Piotr holds graduate degrees in Human Factors and Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Piotr has authored papers and organized workshops for Association for Computing Machinery conferences centered on human-computer interaction, and served as a Program Committee member for ACM Creativity & Cognition in 2007 and 2009. His recent work is focused on the use of open/linked data in cultural heritage institutions.

Sarah Barns - digital producer extraordinaire

Dr. Sarah Barns is a researcher, strategist and digital producer whose work sits at the intersection of cultural heritage, digital media and urban history. Recent projects include the ABC Mapping Emergencies trial (2012), which delivered a crowd-sourced platform for journalists, emergency service agencies and social media users to share information on natural disasters across Australia Unguarded Moments for Art & About Sydney (2011); About NSW Suburb Labs for the Powerhouse Museum (2011); and ABC Sydney Sidetracks (2008), a cross-platform project exploring the history of Sydney using documentary archives from the ABC, the National Film and Sound Archive and beyond. She has a PhD in Public History and a background working as a strategist and research adviser for many cultural and media sector organisations including the ABC, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Creative Industries Innovation Centre. Projects, sound resources and writing by Sarah can be found on her project blog at SitesandSounds.

Nate Solas - Walker Art Center

Nate is the Senior New Media Developer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. In that role, Solas leads the team responsible for back-end development and database work for all Walker web properties: walkerart.org, artsconnected.org, and mnartists.org. A technology leader at the Walker since 2003, Solas has helped shape the direction of the institution’s web presence and developed strategies for multidisciplinary content online. In 2011, Solas and colleagues launched the new Walker Art Center website, walkerart.org. Awarded 2012 Best Innovative/Experimental Site and Best Overall Site by the International Conference of Museums and the Web and nominated for a Webby Award, the site has been hailed as a “game-changer”. Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic wrote that the site “should be a model for other institutions of all kinds”. Solas currently serves on the board of the Museum Computer Network and has been a member of the International Program Committee of Museums and the Web.

Aaron Straup Cope - from "the Internet"

Aaron is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond. He usually just tells people he is from the Internet, these days. Aaron was senior engineer at Flickr focusing on all things geo, machinetag and galleries related between 2004 and 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he was design technologist and Director of Inappropriate Project Names at Stamen, where he created the prettymaps project. He is currently a freelance software developer and a member of the Near Future Laboratory. In addition he sits on the advisory board to the Built Works Registry and currently serving as Co-Director of Revolutionary Technologies for the Spinny Bar History Society. Once upon a time he was still a painter. Aaron's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art as well as 20x200. He is a frequent speaker at the Museums and the Web conference. Aaron blogs at thisisaaronland and does not normally speak in the third person. Aaron is happiest in the presence of olive oil.

2012 Presentations

An overview of presentations made at the 2012 National Digital Forum. Videos were recorded at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa on 20 & 21 November 2012.

Pre-conference DigitalNZ workshops: Monday 19 November

There were several pre-conference workshops being run by DigitalNZ the day before - covering 3D printing and a masterclass on search. More workshop details here.

Day One: Tuesday 20 November 8.30am

8:30am to 10:30am - Main auditorium

• Welcome [video] [transcript]
• Opening address [video] [slides] – Vikram Kumar (Internet NZ)
• Keynote [video] – Piotr Adamczyk, Google Art Project

10.30am to 11.00am - Morning break

11:00am to 12:30pm - Main auditorium

• Beyond social [video] – DK
• Sembl, the game of resemblance [video] [transcript] – Cath Styles
• The tales we can tell [video] [Tim's transcript] – Tim Sherratt and Chris McDowall (DigitalNZ)
• The future of products [video] – Dave ten Have

12.30pm to 1.30pm: Lunch

1.30pm to 2:00pm - Streamed sessions

• Going mobile: lessons learned – Francesca Ford and Brooke Carson-Ewart (Art Gallery of NSW)
• Museum collection information: Then, Now, Next [slides] – Adrian Kingston (Te Papa)
• 28th Māori Battalion: community and collaboration – Monty Soutar (Manatū Taonga – Ministry for Culture and Heritage)
• Accessing New Zealand’s Digitised Heritage – Brenda Chawner with research from Alex Clark (Victoria University of Wellington)

2:00pm to 2:30pm - Streamed sessions

• Story-led digital innovation [video] – Keir Winesmith and Paula Bray (Museum of Contemporary Art / Powerhouse Museum)
• Demystifying metadata and the semantic web: a potted guide to digispeak – Shelley Gurney (NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants)
• Layers of connection: collections, stories, language and place – Eleanor Whitworth (Arts Victoria)
• Online conversations in a grieving city – Moira Fraser

2.30pm to 3:00pm - Streamed sessions

• WW1 commemorations [video] – Douglas Campbell, Virginia Gow, and others
• Google Art Project Panel – Piotr Adamczyk, Kate Woodall, Adrian Kingston and others
• NDF2013: Have your say – Andy Neale and others

3.00pm to 3.30pm - Afternoon break

3:30pm to 4:30pm - Main auditorium

• Keynote [video] [transcript] – Aaron Straup Cope – time pixels / units of measure in the land of fan-fiction, rent-seeking and lifestyle porn

4:30pm to 5:30pm - Lightning talks [video] - Main auditorium

• Nate Solas
• John Sullivan, Privacy, WAI262 and bequests
• Michael Hennessy, Online discovery of Māori resources
• Kim Baker, Rights at NZ On Screen 
• Brian Flaherty, Matapihi future
• Emily Steel, Little Slide Dress [the dress]

5.30pm to 7.00pm: Cocktail function

• Everyone!

Day Two: Wednesday 21 November 9.00am

9:00am to 10:30am - Main auditorium

• Keynote [video] [transcript] – Sarah Barns 
• Going back to gallery land [video] [transcript] - Courtney Johnston

10.30am to 11.00am - Morning break

11.00am to 11:30am - Streamed sessions

• Bring a plate: the importance of building community into your digital projects [video] – Paula Bray (Powerhouse Museum)
• Digital initiatives in a post-quake gallery – David Simpson (Christchurch Art Gallery)
• Humanities Informatics – Ingrid Mason (Intersect Australia)
• Big ideas, small budget: a Q&A workshop [links] – Glen Barnes (MyTours)

11.30am to 12:00pm - Streamed sessions

• The life cycle of online content – Kate Chmiel (Museum Victoria)
• Conceiving the Born Digital Museum: values, technologies and approaches – Suse Cairns (University of Newcastle)
• Magic Squares: Visualising Digital Biography – Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington)
• The evils of multi-tasking – Sandy Mamoli

12.00pm to 12:30pm - Streamed sessions

• Identi-Tee: My T-shirt, My Story [video] – Lucy Ryan (Auckland Museum)
• Digital Channel Strategy: onsite, offsite and online – Karen Mason and David Reeves (Auckland Museum)
• The death of hierarchies – Chris Dempsey and Janine Delaney (NZ Micrographic Services)
• Digital tools and modes of engagement – Stephanie Pride (StratEDGY Strategic Foresight)

12.30pm to 2.00pm - Lunch and Demonstration Hall

2:00pm to 3:00pm - Lightning talks [video] - Main auditorium

• Jock Phillips, Roadside Stories
• Kate Woodall, Engaging with Audiences
• Max Sullivan, Digitising sensitive material
• Stuart Yeates, Web statistics
• Chris Thomson, Digitising a Bibliography of Writing by Māori in English
• Clarion Wells, Zombies and NZ On Screen

3:00pm to 3:30pm - Streamed sessions

• Shaping museum experiences [video] – Geoff Barker (Powerhouse Museum)
• Optimizing crowdsourcing websites to increase volunteer participation – Donelle McKinley (Victoria University of Wellington)
• Interactive and immersive – Tim Hart (Museum Victoria)
• PDF for Digital Preservation and Delivery – John Laurie (University of Auckland)

3.30pm to 4.00pm - Afternoon break

4:00pm to 5:15pm - Main auditorium

• Keynote [video] – Nate Solas
• Wrap up – Andy Neale

Conference closes at 5.15pm

Conference handbook (PDF, 201kb)

2011 Presentations (video)

Welcome to the recordings of presentations made at the 2011 National Digital Forum. These were recorded at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa on  29 & 30 November 2011.

Mihi Whakatau

Opening - Chris Batt

Welcome - MC

Michael Lascarides New York Public Library

Alan Smith Gibson Group

Kate Woodall Te Papa

Lucinda Blaser National Maritime Museum

Melanie Cooper  Auckland Museum

Kate Stone AustralianScreen

Chris McDowall DigitalNZ

Michael Parry ACMI

Andy Neale DigitalNZ

Paul Rowe Vernon Systems

Toby Vincent Smudge Apps

Sydney Shep Victoria University of Wellington

Simon Sherrin Museum Victoria

Euan Cochrane Archives NZ

Jon Voss Historypin

Mitchell Whitelaw University of Canberra

Elisabeth Niggemann Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Tim Sherratt discontents.com.au

Margaret Warren State Library of Queensland

Ryan Donahue George Eastman House

Creating a digital archive of the Canterbury earthquakes

Ronald Milne National Library of New  Zealand

Jamie Mackay Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Guy Field Christchurch City Libraries

James Smithies Canterbury University

Moira Fraser and Ross Becker Ross Becker Photography

Panel Discussion - Earthquakes

Moving Image

Kate Stone AustralianScreen

Michael Perry ACMI

Brenda Leeuwenberg NZ On Screen

Panel Discussion

Mobile

Simon Sherrin Museum Victoria

Michael Perry ACMI

Virginia Gow Auckland Museum

Wrap-Up

Closing

2011 Conference Handbook

Here is where you'll find a copy of the final 2011 conference handbook.