New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC)
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection logo.png
Type of site
Digital library index
Available in English
Website nzetc.victoria.ac.nz
Alexa rankIncrease2.svg 330,399 (March 2012) [1]
CommercialNo
RegistrationFree
Launched2002 (2002)
Current statusActive

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) (Māori : Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) was renamed in 2012 the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection due to internal restructuring.

Māori language Polynesian language spoken by New Zealand Māori

Māori, also known as te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian, it gained recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987. The number of speakers of the language has declined sharply since 1945, but a Māori language revitalisation effort slowed the decline, and the language has experienced a revival, particularly since about 2015.

Contents

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection is a collection of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. The Library has an ongoing programme of digitisation and feature additions to the current holdings within the NZETC. In the beginning of 2012 the collection contained over 1,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day. [2]

Victoria University of Wellington public university in New Zealand

Victoria University of Wellington is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

New Zealand Country in Oceania

New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland.

Projects and activities

The Library works with partners within Victoria University on projects for the NZETC including:

The Best New Zealand Poems series, begun in 2001 is an annual online selection of poems chosen by guest editors. The program is run by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. It is supported by a grant from Creative New Zealand.

Design Review was a publication of the Wellington Architectural Centre. The Centre was founded in 1946, and began the first architectural school in Wellington (1947) and the first town planning school in New Zealand (1949). The Centre was unique at the time of its founding in that it invited members interested in a broad range of design and the arts, rather than restricting membership to professional architects and architectural students. Internationally it is one of the oldest organisations of its type.

Wellington Capital city of New Zealand

Wellington is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 418,500 residents. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region, which also includes the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. Its latitude is 41°17′S, making it the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed.

The NZETC has previously worked with external partners, such as:

National Library of New Zealand national library

The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations". Under the Act, the library is also expected to be:

Learning Media Limited is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise. The company publishes most of the Ministry of Education's material. A division of the Ministry until 1993, it continues to publish the School Journal and Junior Journal magazines and the Ready to Read readers for the Ministry, as well as services for other organisations.

Ministry of Education (New Zealand) New Zealand ministry responsible for education

The Ministry of Education is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing the New Zealand education system.

Copyrights

When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ). [4]

Share-alike conditon for works or licences that require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar licence as the original

Share-alike is a copyright licensing term, originally used by the Creative Commons project, to describe works or licences that require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar licence as the original. Copyleft licences are free content or free software licences with a share-alike condition.

Methodology and technology

The NZETC is a part of the Text Encoding Initiative community of practice. They encode all their textual content in TEI XML which is transformed dynamically into HTML using XSL. [5] Authority files are maintained for works, people, places and, unusually, ships. [6] Topic Maps are used for the main website structure.

Text Encoding Initiative An academic community concerned with practices for semantic markup of texts

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and maintains an eponymous technical standard, a journal, a wiki, a GitHub repository and a toolchain.

XML Markup language developed by the W3C for encoding of data

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The W3C's XML 1.0 Specification and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML.

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web.

Related Research Articles

John Cawte Beaglehole was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook's three journals of exploration, together with the writing of an acclaimed biography of Cook, published posthumously. He had a lifelong association with Victoria University College, which became Victoria University of Wellington, and after his death it named the archival collections after him.

New Zealand Cross (1869)

The New Zealand Cross was introduced in 1869 during the Land Wars in New Zealand. The wars were fought between natives of New Zealand, the Māori, and forces raised by European settlers known as Pākehā assisted by British troops.

Herbert Guthrie-Smith New Zealand conservationist

William Herbert Guthrie-Smith FRSNZ was a New Zealand farmer, author and conservationist.

Tusiata Avia is a New Zealand poet and children's author.

Mamari Stephens is a law academic best known for her work creating He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Maori Legal Terms, a Māori-English a bi-lingual dictionary of legal terms. She is of Te Rarawa descent.

Don Mathieson (lawyer)

Donald Lindsay Mathieson is a Waikanae-based New Zealand lawyer and lay Anglican.

William Turnbull (New Zealand architect)

William Turnbull was an architect based in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the fourth and youngest son of architect Thomas Turnbull. He joined his father's practice in 1882 and became a partner in 1891. He was born in San Francisco where his father was working at the time. He moved to New Zealand with his family in 1871. In his younger years, he played rugby union at Poneke Football Club in Kilbirnie.

Susanna White Wimperis was a New Zealand artist.

Ann Jane "Jenny" Wimperis was a New Zealand watercolour artist.

Jenny D. A. Campbell (1895–1970) was a New Zealand artist. Works by Campbell are held at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Her prints are featured in Margaret Dobson's book Block-Cutting and Print-Making by Hand (1928).

Alfreda "Freda" Simmonds (1912–1983) was a painter from New Zealand.

Elise Constance Mourant was a New Zealand artist. Works by Mourant are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Christine Johnston is a novelist from New Zealand.

Kate Camp is a poet and author from New Zealand.

Sue Orr is a fiction writer and journalist from New Zealand.

Lynn Jenner is a poet and essayist from New Zealand.

Jessica Le Bas is a poet from New Zealand.

Helen Heath is a poet from New Zealand.

References

  1. ↑ "NZETC.org Site Info". Alexa Internet . Retrieved 2012-03-16.
  2. ↑ About NZETC on the official website
  3. ↑ "About the NZETC projects". Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  4. ↑ "About copyrights". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz.
  5. ↑ "Technology". NZETC. 2005-05-05. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  6. ↑ "http". Authority.nzetc.org/. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
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