UC QuakeStudies content live in UC CEISMIC
We are very pleased to announce that items from the University
of Canterbury's QuakeStudies repository are now
available in UC CEISMIC search. This completes an important
link in our federated archive, so it is particularly exciting for
the UC team and the CEISMIC Consortium to see it live.
The addition of UC QuakeStudies adds around 6000 digital objects to
www.ceismic.org.nz, and there is a great variety to
browse through. If you've visited UC QuakeStudies you'll know
we are archiving a broad range of materials, from newspapers to
oral history audio interviews to scientific reports. These
have been sourced from a variety of content partners who are
committed to ensuring a long-term record of the quakes is
preserved, including Fairfax Media, Environment Canterbury, New
Zealand Historic Places Trust. We're very happy to connect UC
QuakeStudies with existing collections under the CEISMIC umbrella,
and we plan to add further material in the coming weeks, including
more full-text searchable newspapers and some substantial new image
collections.
One advantage of this development is that we can offer access to
UC CEISMIC content through a number of channels, from our website,
to the
CEISMIC mobile app built by NV Interactive, to the DigitalNZ API.
Having many channels to the archive is important because it
encourages more people to engage with the content in new and
creative ways.
We wouldn't have been able to complete our vision for UC CEISMIC
without the support of a number of organizations and
individuals. Learning Media Ltd,
developers of QuakeStudies, have provided software development and
technical expertise when it mattered most. DigitalNZ, part of the National
Library of New Zealand, provide the framework that makes metadata
aggregation across the CEISMIC partners possible, and have been
endlessly patient and dedicated to the project. In particular, we'd
like to thank Richard Parratt (LML) and Dan Charles (DNZ) for
helping us get the search results looking just right.
We are also grateful for the support of our amazing UC QuakeStudies content partners - including Fairfax Media, Environment Canterbury, NZ Historic Places Trust, Focus360, the Women's Voices oral history project, and many others. Sharing the lessons learned from the Canterbury earthquakes is an important step in the rebuild, and our content partners are at the forefront of this process.
With UC QuakeStudies now a part of the UC CEISMIC federated archive, we think a little celebration might be in order...
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