 We might just get on with things again. Calm yourself. We were just waiting to see if some of the other sessions had finished, but we might just... They haven't finished. Well, they can miss out, sorry. They should have got here. We just want to wrap up the conference really now. As a lot of you will know, Andy Fenton is stepping down from the board this year after, I think, ten years on the board, including many as the Treasurer. He has sort of been the institutional memory of the board, so it's with some trepidation that we farewell him. We still know where he lives, so that's... We won't be letting him get away. So Andy's going to do a bit of a wrap-up for us, so please welcome Andy to the stage. Good day, everyone. I'm just going to try and attempt to read my notes off my laptop. I had my daughter's Microsoft Surface all cleared up for this, but technology got the better of me. It shouldn't do here. It's been a fabulous couple of days, I'm sure you'll agree. And I'll start in case I forget at the end with a massive thank you to Matthew. I don't think we would have seen anything quite as fantastic as this without all his efforts and those of his team and those of the board who were supporting him as well. So a big shout out to Matthew, please. The board's aim for this conference was to delight and inspire and see how we can network together to enhance New Zealand's digital interaction with culture and heritage to make a difference. The themes that inspired or transpired for me were inspiration, dream, and challenge. And these are words that do come up in conferences across the years. This is my 12th, by the way. I'll touch on these themes as I sum up. Firstly, some thoughts and quotes from our keynotes. I just want to take you back over the last couple of days. Simon Tanner reminded us that we spend an enormous amount of money in the digital space, but how do we know we've actually made an impact that's meaningful and will change people's lives? Likewise, we often hear fabulous statistics about how many objects or elements of objects we have digitized, you know, the papers passed, multiple three million pages and so on. But do the numbers mean anything? Do they just show the scale of the project or the effort to maintain open access to these or the difficulty in preserving them? It's the impact on people's lives that's important and the tangible benefits they provide. So knowledge of stakeholders is crucial and we should look at measuring success for impact internally, innovatively, economically and socially. And you've got Simon's slides to refer back to there. Peter Gogol's pushed a traditional boundary. High quality art picks free online. Always provokes great debate. I love it. After all, it is the people's collection he told us and they should enjoy it anytime, any place, any way they want to. You need to think about that when you go home and look at your own institution. Make commercial gain from those images. How cool is that? For someone like myself, it's probably cooler than for some of you. I'd like to point out that he made the point that the average online visit to his place increased to 15 minutes as people explored those images in detail and is that really what it's all about? The economic impact on the revenue stream for your smaller institutions will be thinking through and there is a challenge there, I appreciate that. Deb House brought education thinking here and it's something the board's pushed over the years to get that education perspective on glam sector views. Most of their efforts were concentrated on the 3 million a staggering number of annual visitors to MoMA but when you've got 20 million annual online visitors what can you do to offer more to them? So thinking in the education space she told us about offering courses online, the use of MOOCs, massive open online classrooms which clearly are growing phenomenally well and also the point that we need to consider back converting our metadata terminology to match what kids and teachers and researchers search for. She also touched on the use of smartphones ubiquitous. In fact, how many got smartphones in this audience? Yeah, a staggering number. I heard on the radio just this morning that apparently the take-up of smartphones on a mass scale, defined mass, across the world is probably about five years, maybe seven at most. The take-up of the internet was about 10 years so imagine when we get the next breakthrough just how fast technology is changing for us and what that can do to the areas we work in. But MOOC education is clearly growing massively. It provides wonderful outcomes, global reach, homebound folk can learn, all people just can't travel that well. The opportunity for connecting and teaching the teachers is quite high on my agenda. Imagine reaching out to 10,000 teachers in an audience of 17,000 from 110 countries. But challenges do remain. We asked about universities and Deb's challenged academia to think of MOOCs as a textbook, which I thought was quite inspiring. And perhaps an education's sweet spot is that global digital reach to do that via collaboration by harvesting content, by repurposing metadata, sharing data. The outcomes are engaged and to inform the impact will manifestly be life-changing if education standards are lifted more rapidly on a global scale. And I think of continents like Africa where even smartphones are becoming quite prevalent over there and just how much we can do in the education space there. Ed Summers reminded us that the web and the digital ecosystems we operate in are vast and we need to care for the web, archive it, protect it, be islands of persistence on the web, even our own website iterations, your own namespace if you like. Is it important to manage and remember that? And I think a lot of the early NDFs were about digital preservation and included talks on archiving the web. We seem to have moved on from that conversation, but I'm really pleased Ed came and reminded us just how important it is. I think in the digital age we can get a bit frivolous. Are we kidding ourselves on being islands of persistence? We can't really compete with Google, can we? The sheer scale of the job is massive. You've got Library of Congress offering the Twitter archive, but maybe we can just look for sweet spots, but it's not going to help us. Rise to the challenge after all. When you go to a library, you don't expect the librarian to read a book to you. I contend we need to be curatorial and consider what information we discard. We generate lots of data, but keep throwing lots away. That's not always okay. But if cultural heritage institutions don't try to keep it, then who will? Especially in this advent period of the internet the first three decades you could argue. But let's do our best until the cavalry arrives perhaps. I've observed the rise in the interest of humanities which didn't even exist when NDF was first conceived. Many of the presentations touched on the application of digital technology on humanities disciplines and the opportunity to reflect upon the impact digital media has upon humanity. Not surprising this has clear compatibility with NDF's own goals to enhance New Zealand's digital interaction with culture and heritage to make a difference. And that touched me on the matter of perspective. I think many of us in the Twitter sphere enjoyed Simon's wine analogy. Is the value of the wine, the glass, the drinking? Different people have different perspectives and it's important to try and understand and comprehend as many as possible. But our job is to think strategically to assess the risks to consider the stakeholders to accept the impact can be positive or negative. And it's to ask the right questions at the start. In other words to quote Simon again be clear and deliberate about what you do in the digital realm and why. I really thought that resonated for me was that this indeed, that it is indeed almost an impossible mandate for national institutions to hold data and perpetuity on a one to three year budget cycle. It's also crazy to fund a digitisation project as a one-off event and not a sustained activity over time. And we must transform projects into programmes of digitisation. Adrian Kingston and Chris Dempsey both made the point regarding crowdsourcing and I just heard Reid Perkins talk about it as well. Crowdsourcing or user contribution just a few champions can make a significant difference. Find those in your community and stakeholders and yourself will collectively make a big impact. And again I reiterate that we need to plan to manage content beyond initial capture. We've heard Joe talk about KETA and the dilemma it's got at the moment. It's important that we manage the content beyond the initial conception of the project. Full life span considerations. Adrian reminded us that if our audiences are prepared to give us our opinions we should respect them and care for them and learn from them. And I was quite moved by that. Remember some other important lessons about community. The gamers are big players in the space. That pun was intended. And Helen Stuckey's method of remembering games is transferable to preserving your community memory and knowledge perhaps. Preserving and sharing community experiences is important. And I did like Helen's aside that if you work in digital preservation you get rather fond of paper. Similarly, several speakers inspired my own thoughts about the democratisation of information. Phrase Penny put on national radio some years ago and has been widely used. Linked open data is an amazing yet elusive idea as Chris McDowell told us. And Michael Lascaritas who was a keynote speaker here just a few years ago from America and now a resident here showed us how to make a start on this seemingly too big to tackle task. And with democratising information we must remain mindful of community in place. Consider Iwi and the Marae in the digital era. The values of belonging and identity for Marae resonate in cultural heritage digitisation projects. And I loved Paul Tapsel's message that digitally grounding Tamariki to their own home Marae is critical to future Marae well-being in a world of global confusion. And that wonderful quip that if you have the tools use them. Do you think that if Marae had early Marae had outboard motors they would not have used them? It's about community. Place and community can be bridged in the digital realm. For example from the Marae, well Paul Tapsel's Marae to the sign language archive from Sonja Pivak who equally inspired me with this nation's third official language. I find it hard to get my head around a language which has no written form. It's only recorded in video over the years or it's various formats so preserving that audio and visual material is crucial. A big shout out from me to the work from the New Zealand film archive and sound archive and the work they do in preserving degrading acetate film and many more organisations like my own firm who do the same for those acetate photo negatives that we need to catch before they crinkle. Thank you Deaf Radio for creating the signed DNA an archive for sign language a virtual land for the deaf community and thank you for providing interpreters here on stage. In fact they probably deserve a clap well done. Sticking with community in place I was as moved as you were by Courtney this morning all heritage institutions can embrace emotion if they so choose reflective of the people and collections within and the people they wish to offer an experience to their community. I loved how Courtney intuitively jumped straight to impact how she might change people's lives through her institution's values this is part dream part challenge and certainly inspiring for me and for you and I was also equally inspired by Virginia's 100 years ago 100 years ago talk with Kirsty which was dubbed up 100 collaborating with Topapa of course many speakers provoke challenges inspirations and dreams and I throw these out there. The right to delete as well as preserve is that really new in the curatorial world seems to be a big hang up in the digital world how do we educate young people as the real and virtual worlds blur previous moral codes as Hannah McDougal told us and that nice quote from Tom Renny e-books seem to be 15 years behind the web and though we partied hard in 1999 it seems rather quaint today what can we do about open standards with e-books? I love the mashups, the Rijksmuseum video we can all have some fun there even with a simple smart phone can you foresee your institution open up your entire digital collection free and high res, who pays for some of that digitisation and perhaps owns it already and a nice concept to consider added value for users which we got from the Rijksmuseum again the intersection of museum, user trends and tools is their sweet spot but added value to users I think is something we should all focus on and I learnt a new word, culture snacker I haven't worked out if it's one or two but I quite like it as a single word hashtag so in closing I like to pick up on these opening challenges and dreams you control the information information age I had to get a McCannin because everyone else has and I'm certainly no study of art history but I did pick up this quote about this painting and I think that really resonates with me and what we're talking about here I hope you enjoy that and that is a screen dump so I don't think I've breached any copyright issues I had to pay for it if I downloaded it I think the earthquakes in Christchurch proved how important it is to preserve digitally further because of our NDF initiatives we could connect, research learn and discover about the information surrounding that event and that's impact some years ago policy was developed as Penny told us in shaped strategic thinking it gave impact as Simon Tanner would say because it helped us develop programs that would change people's lives Penny challenged whether we now need to think about how serious we want to get about open access, open data and the creative commons should this be funded by the government not the least because so much of the infrastructure is underpinned by it and I agree let's get serious about preserving digital scientific research and pushing the boundary on copyright and as for you and the NDF board some nostalgia from me not much Matapihi off-sided at NDF because it was our first collective project it was a pretty cool outcome I must confess it's an outcome of the first conference in 2001 inspired by an Australian case study great example of collaboration and networking picked up by Graham Coe and Steve Knight and we ran with it and it inspired the formation of NDF as we know it today said in Bennington and Paul Reynolds are often remembered at these conferences and I think the phrase for me today is less we forget they, Penny, Graham and Steve were early inspirers of the NDF coming home was our first sorry our second big collaborative project and as Andy told us at the AGM it coincided with the formation of Digital New Zealand nowadays World War I is galvanising cross-sectoral collaboration on a grander scale as Virginia showed us I'd like to offer a shout out to Digital New Zealand for us early NDF board members it was everything NDF saw itself being but it actually did stuff still does it and better than we ever imagined chalk that up to Penny's imagineering her word her digital leadership team of Sue Sutherland and John Truesdale along with the NDF board just conceptualising all in the background there so to you all please read the survey, digitisation survey that's on the NDF website read the monthly newsletters a lot of work goes into them we're communicating better nowadays bar camps and experience exchange we've talked about but we're trying to develop a sense of community beyond this conference and it's important you may have other ideas become a member of the NDF if you're not already one already, you can join on the website work with fellow members work with the board don't leave it all to them for me I love the maturity of that NDF in its 12th conference change is a wonderful constant but the one thing that has been consistent across all those conference is the present brain ache most of us experience at the end of day one and I mean before the drinks the cerebrals stretching from the rock stars of our sectors for meant great ideas and inspiration I think you'll all agree that whilst our overseas guests were fantastic Kiwis are brilliant too and the Aussies NDF brought community to digitisation in New Zealand I think that's a fair sum up of what I saw NDF doing over the last 12 years it's got us to a good stage and there's lots of work still to be done it's a digital place where gigs can be cool and heck you can even use tablets and laptops in the front row here without complaint all I do dim your lights please it's a place where bibliophiles can read museum folks can visit and explore archivists can collect and collectively we glam sectorites can live a dream where our data is connected, contextualised entertaining informative accessible for as long as we need it so I'll close with a graphic demonstration of the community we inspire I contacted Michael Edson who was a keynote speaker here two or three years ago with Michael I believe just a few hours ago and asked him to help me close this conference with those key three that transpired for me inspiration, dream and challenge and here's what we came up with Hi everyone when Andy messaged me a few minutes ago to ask me to comment on the conference themes I thought he said they were instigation, scheme and malice and I thought wow that's awesome but things have changed a lot in the last couple years in New Zealand and now I understand that the themes are inspiration dream and challenge and those are big loaded emotional words they speak to me of a group of people who aren't going to be happy doing the thing they did yesterday just because it's what was always done they speak to me of restlessness and urgency but I want to add another word to those three and that word is you I was in a museum strategy workshop a few years ago with the eminent writer Robert Edsel and Pete Wilson who's the governor of California and a lot of eminent historians and scholars and business people even though I was way way way out of my league I was going on and on about how important it was for this particular museum for this particular mission to succeed to rise above its own rhetoric about inspiration and dreams and challenge to really serve humanity to really win using the internet at global scale and when I finally stopped to draw in a breath and ponder the awkward silence in the room Robert Edsel who is this intense scholarly looking distinguished gentleman with shocking white hair and a very impressive suit straightened up next to me and said in the words of Yoda try not do and I thought that was totally awesome we need all the inspiration we can get because of the work of society and humanity in the not too distant future is going to get so much harder and so much weirder and so much more full of ambiguity and frustration and dead ends than it's ever been before and I think we need big beautiful dreams now because we can have them thanks to the internet and challenge I'm not sure if you mean or verb if you mean it as a verb then you're challenging what you see if you mean it as a noun a challenge then yes it is all of this is a challenge but it's the only game in town and you're the only players and you've got to win you must do you must do starting now thanks and one more slide one of the reasons we do what we do is to make a social contribution to show people we care to provide context from history and the present to forge thinking about our collaborative future in this digital age I think now it's time to go home involve and inspire your bosses and your colleagues dream a little challenge your community and do thanks very much poorly wrapped I know but that's on behalf of the board for the last 10 years thank you for all your work I'm glad you digitised thanks just before you all go we'll do some housekeeping and then a few thanks housekeeping coats are in the foyer I told you that coming up after the conference we'll have a post conference survey coming soon all these talks are going to be on YouTube and we will get that done Twitter has been going off today I think we've been number one in New Zealand so if anybody wants to go for it somebody's created an archive of it all on Google Docs so you can find it there if you want speaker slides and notes are starting to trickle their way onto the internet so we'll be tweeting tweeting them if you've got links you want to share just send them along to somebody I should have a email address but you can find us through our website or just tweet us I've got to give lots of thanks I will forget people but I have to thank everybody for coming I have to thank the program committee where are you Courtney and Simon and Adrian and Virginia for helping me put this together it's not all on me, it's all on you as well I have to thank the board for keeping on doing this thing I've got to thank the speakers we got you here but then you did all the work thank you so much sponsors it does come down to money thank you for taking along so thank you for all your generous financial support and then the part of Cooper's team who kept it all ticking along registered us, fed us, organized everything, the AB teams have recorded everything, set up all the infrastructure and of course to Papa for feeding us and hosting us and housing us for the last two days I've enjoyed it, I hope you have too there's a pub just over there you're welcome to join us thank you and we'll see you next year