WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

In collaboration with ARANZ

Linked Data & Knowledge graphs are what you get when you add connections to data. This workshop provides an introduction to Linked Open Data & Knowledge Graphs including linked data principles and practices with a particular emphasis on Records in Contexts (RiC). RiC is the new International Council on Archives standard for describing records. We'll use the Records in Contexts card game to map cultural heritage objects to a linked data model, then map the data to the RiC ontology to build a queryable dataset.

Participants should bring a laptop or tablet with a web browser for some class exercises creating and sharing linked data.

Participants will:

• understand the rationale for linked data & knowledge graphs

• see how linked data is based on web standards

• be introduced to core concepts for knowledge graphs

• be shown how linked data can be created from tabular data

• explore real-world examples using Records in Contexts

• participate in a hands-on exercise creating, sharing, and querying linked data

PRESENTERS
Jonathan Hunt is a Senior Developer at Catalyst with over 30 years of IT industry experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, and Developer roles. Over the last decade he has been involved in digital cultural heritage projects involving digital repositories, linked open data, and knowledge graphs.

Evan Greensides is an Information Management Consultant and owner of EG Consulting based in Christchurch | Ōtautahi. He has 15 years of hands-on, professional experience across the Galleries, Libraries, Art, Museum, and Records (GLAMR) sector in governance, management and technical roles, and through a wide variety of IM projects.

Evan is currently first-past President of Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ), is a Co-Convenor of the 2026 ARANZ Conference, and is a member of the Archives Council of New Zealand. He previously Co-Convened the 2024 ASA/ARANZ 2024 Conference and was a Board member of Te Manawa Museum Art Gallery & Science Centre in Palmerston North.

Before undertaking IM consulting, Evan was Senior Archivist and product owner of the Archives Central digital repository, implementing world leading open-source software. Under his guidance, Archives Central was confirmed as one of the first institutions globally to adopt the cutting-edge Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM) developed by the International Council of Archives (ICA).

Digital literacy programmes have existed for decades. Yet people and institutions continue to face misinformation, phishing, unsafe data practices, AI misuse, and declining trust in digital environments. Many existing approaches focus on knowledge, confidence, or technical skills, but do not show how people actually behave when they face uncertainty, risk, time pressure, or competing responsibilities.

This half-day workshop introduces the International Digital Driving License, or IDDL, as a practical framework for developing and assessing digital literacy through observable behaviour. Participants will work across three domains: Digital Skills, Cybersecurity Awareness, and AI Competency. Each domain will be explored through three core concepts, giving participants nine concepts in total.

The workshop will then apply these concepts through three realistic scenarios drawn from GLAMMIR contexts. Each scenario will be assessed using the IDDL triad model:

Knowledge — what the participant understands
Capability — what the participant can do in an authentic situation
Reflection — how the participant explains, evaluates, and justifies the decision

The scenarios will examine issues such as collection data, digital workflows, information quality, cybersecurity, AI-generated content, access, cultural authority, provenance, and responsible decision-making. Participants will not only discuss what should happen; they will work through the scenarios, make decisions, and reflect on the reasoning behind their actions.

The workshop will also consider practical digital capability challenges within GLAMMIR organisations, including data hygiene in complex or improvised systems, developing more agile approaches to problem-solving, and supporting digital learning when staff are under pressure or have limited capacity.

Through hands-on use of the IDDL approach, participants will explore how digital literacy can move beyond technical competence toward responsible, evidence-based digital behaviour.

Workshop outcomes

Workshop participants will:

• learn nine practical concepts across Digital Skills, Cybersecurity Awareness, and AI Competency;

• apply those concepts to three GLAMMIR-based scenarios;

• use the Knowledge, Capability, and Reflection triad to assess digital behaviour;

• identify risks involving data quality, cybersecurity, AI outputs, access, and cultural authority;

• practise explaining and justifying digital decisions;

• gain a practical understanding of how IDDL can support staff development, assessment, and digital capability planning in GLAMMIR organisations.

PRESENTER
Ahmad Ghandour is a Professor of E-Business and Information Systems with teaching and research experience across New Zealand, UAE, and Jordan. He completed his PhD at the University of Otago and works in digital literacy, AI competency, cybersecurity awareness, and digital transformation. He is the creator of the International Digital Driving License (IDDL), a behavioural digital capability framework designed to assess how people actually behave in digital environments through simulations, decision-making tasks, and reflective reasoning.

Runtime: 1:30pm - 4:30pm.

Artificial intelligence can generate an answer in seconds. But what happens to our capacity to wonder, notice, imagine, make connections and ask better questions?  As technology becomes more capable, some of our most valuable capabilities may turn out to be distinctly human ones.

Practising Possibility is a playful, participatory 2.5 hour workshop exploring the human capabilities we need to cultivate alongside AI and other disruptive technologies.

Designed by innovation strategist Tui Te Hau, the workshop draws on innovation practice, experience design, human flourishing, cultural institutions, biomimicry and the emerging science of curiosity and imagination. It combines short provocations with individual exercises, group exploration and active learning beyond the classroom.

This is not an AI training session. You will not spend the time learning prompts.

Instead, you will experiment with ways of seeing, questioning and thinking differently. You will explore how curiosity can be practised, how constraints can unlock imagination, how unexpected connections generate new possibilities, and how deliberately changing what we pay attention to can change what we see.

The workshop has particular resonance for people working with culture, heritage, collections, audiences and creative practice, where interpretation, meaning and imagination have always mattered. Bring a project, challenge or question you are wrestling with, or simply bring yourself.

Come curious.  You may leave seeing your work, your collections, your organisation, or the world around you a little differently.

“Just do it, your right brain will love you for it”  - Wellington workshop participant

PRESENTER
Tui Te Hau is the founder of Bird Island, an innovation practice exploring how people and organisations navigate disruption, imagine differently and build better futures. An experienced innovation leader and strategist, Tui works across emerging technology, culture, social innovation and responsible AI. Through Bird Island she writes and experiments with ideas around human flourishing, curiosity, imagination and the capabilities we need for a rapidly changing world.