1. PRDLA 2009 Brian Flaherty Assistant University Librarian – IT The University of Auckland Library

2. Baskets of Knowledge Digital Collaboration in New Zealand

3. Early on…National Union Catalogue

4. National Digital Forum 2002-

5. Register of Digitisation Initiatives

6. “Your window onto the places, events & people of NZ”

7. Aa gateway to NZ research…

8. NZ Digital Strategy

9. this is better, but…

10. Reuse?

11. community kete

12. museums …

13. archives …

14. Shared data

15. HPC collaboration

16. roadblocks http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdave/125492047 /

17. lack of common agenda for collaboration institutional / sectoral priorities - is it in our nature or are we funded to collaborate “build it and they will come” “standards are barriers to participation” why bother ? – Google is our collaborator variable skill sets – large institutions do better hybrid costs

18. Some lessons

19. Digitisation is good Digital Collections are better

20. Metadata Let it free and it will come back to you

21. Digitisation is good Persistence is essential

22. Give people the tools to use and to reuse

23. “Cultural heritage results from EXCHANGE OF IDEAS about objects it is not located IN them” http://www.slideshare.net/andypowe11/open-social-and-linked-what-do-current-web-trends- tell-us-about-the-future-of-digital-libraries

24. Kia ora Thank you