 I'm Tamara Patton, Communications Officer for National Services Te Paerangi, and this little person down here is Ashley Remmer from Girl Museum. We're very pleased to be here today to talk to you about National Services Te Paerangi digital initiatives. For those of you who aren't familiar with National Services, we're the museum sector support team based here at Te Papa. I'm going to talk to you briefly about the NZ Museum's website, but I won't go into too much detail as NZ Museum's not actually a new development. I'm just going to provide some background for Ashley to talk about our newer initiatives. But I'm very happy to answer questions about NZ Museums later or during the conference. So, just out of interest, how many of you have heard of NZ Museums? Oh, good! But a few who haven't, so this doesn't make my speech redundant. So, NZ Museums in its current form was launched in 2008. It's a site that allows museums, art galleries and other collecting organisations to have an online presence and showcase their collections. It's the only website which allows visitors to access information about all New Zealand's museums in one place. So, each museum in New Zealand has a free self-administering profile page that includes things like address and contact details, opening hours, information about the museum's collection, its facilities, you can add profile pictures of the museum and so on. This is Woodville Museum's profile. Oh no, that's Woodville Museum's profile. So, why NZ Museums? But NZ Museums was established to meet a number of needs identified by the wider museum sector. When it was launched in 2008, Metro and Regional Museums generally had a good web presence. But what about the smaller museums? Many don't have the budget for a website or software and little to no IT infrastructure. Staff resources are also often limited. NZ Museums is intended to reduce barriers to creating a web presence for all museums, helping them to reach a wider and more diverse audience. So, two that possibly without NZ Museums you wouldn't know about is Kahutara Taxi Dumi Gallery and the New Zealand Bear Can Museum. It costs $5 to enter and you get a free drink. So, another of NZ Museums' key purposes is to provide an entry point into simple collections management, which brings me to E-Hive. NZ Museums was developed in partnership with Vernon Systems. It's built on top of E-Hive, which is Vernon's web-based cataloging system for small museums. National Services administers the site and Vernon Systems provides the know-how and technical solutions. And thank goodness for them because they do a wonderful job and I would be at a loss without their expertise. So, within E-Hive, each contributor has their own login to create and edit collection records and update their profile. NZ Museums is a community within E-Hive. This is the NZ Museums community page in E-Hive. So, you can possibly not see, but there are 400 museums in the NZ Museums community and therefore 400 museums with profiles on NZ Museums site. In the moment we've got 20,000 items shared, collection items shared. So, only objects uploaded into E-Hive and marked as belonging to the NZ Museums community appear on NZ Museums. So, museums have a choice about what they share publicly. Museums can upload up to 200 collection items to E-Hive for free and after that you enter into a licensing agreement. Cost is variable depending on how many collection items you're adding. And if you're interested in E-Hive, Paul Rowe from Vernon Systems is at NDF this week and in fact I think he's got an exibit of stand. I'm sure he'd be very happy to chat with anybody about that. So, what a museum enters into E-Hive and shares with the NZ Museums or come up like this. Awaka Museum in the Catlins is our poster child for taking out NZ Museums in E-Hive. So, this on screen is a sample of their collection highlights. That's a sample page out of their history collection which is large and varied and that's what our collection object entry looks like. Museums can add as much or as little information about their collection items as they wish. Sorry, it's very small up there but the public are also encouraged to explore and participate through tags and comments functions. This is a good one from Waimati Museum, an image of the woman in red, Nita Roslyn outside McLaughlin's cycle shop. You'll have to take my word for it. She's a lady of that group of people with a bike. The woman in red was a trained singer who travelled the world with her show Variety on a Bike. Various tags have been applied. You can sort of see in the middle there with X's by visitors to the site. The comments sections talk about having met her, memories of having her stay in their house, stories about how she always mysteriously kept her bike in her room with her, possibly because she was a spy and in fact a man disguised as a woman who was mapping the coast and hiding the maps in her bike frame as being pre-World War II. So all this information is contributed by the public and really adds to the collection record. NZ Museums also features news, blog and spotlight features. We encourage museums to write for the blog and also contribute relevant posts to it ourselves. We promote what's happening on NZ Museums blog and the website via our Twitter account NZ Museums. NZ Museums is integrated with Digital New Zealand just on this side here. This enriches the search results meaning more discoverability for museums and their collections. Oops sorry, and it's also connected with Event Finder so visitors to the site can be linked with events that various museums have got happening. It's also integrated with Google Maps meaning that each museum can be located on a map and visitors can plan their trips better. And finally it's a discoverability there's a search widget designed to go on websites and blogs. So I'm sure by now that you're desperate to get your museum on NZ Museums if it's not already so please contact me and I can get you set up and I'll now pass over to Ashley to talk about our other digital initiatives. Hi folks, as Tamar said I'm Ashley Remar. I'm the founder and head girl of Girl Museum. If you haven't heard of us we are the first and only museum in the world dedicated to researching and exhibiting girlhood and girl culture and we are completely virtual. So for the purposes of this talk I am actually managing the National Services sub-communities and exhibitions. So NSTP wanted to create a model for how museums could use e-hive to make collaborative online exhibitions and her girl museum. Since the mission of National Services is based on outreach to all museums and extending engagement this was a perfect collaboration between our organisations. So what is Kiwi Cheks? Kiwi Cheks is our project. The collections driven exhibition that explores girlhood in New Zealand during the 18th to 20th centuries in order to preserve New Zealand girl culture this project aims to identify girlhood objects within New Zealand museums libraries, archives, schools, galleries historic societies and families to create an exciting exhibition and informs and inspires girls of today with the stories achievements and struggles of yesterday's girls as well as to a general audience. Through creating a collaborative online community we can provide an interesting and informative exhibition database for public and educational research as well as empowering New Zealand girls with the knowledge of their own histories. This will not only enable all people to look at their own histories in a new way but also allow museums to look at their collections in a new way and provide an incentive and word of the day purpose to digitise more objects to share with a wider audience. So what is girlhood that we're collecting? Well girlhood is everything. Girlhood is a hairpin or a shoe or even a bicycle could speak volumes about a girl's life. Kiwi Chicks is designed to showcase all types of objects from New Zealand girl history. We want objects used by girls for girls, about girls and material culture including objects, photographs, fine art, clothing and ephemera. For the purposes of this exhibition we're loosely defining girl as up to the age of 21 but this is flexible and we're dealing with it on an individual object basis. So what does the exhibition look like? Well, here we are. We created a really simple straightforward site meant to be navigated and understood by both visitors and participants. There are no clever design tricks, we just wanted something really straightforward and pleasant that allowed anyone with an interest to browse or to look for something specific that they wanted to find. It will evolve as more objects are contributed but right now we're still in the hunting and gathering mode. Elements of the site include the usual suspects, keyword search, browse, gallery all using e-hives custom plugins. We're hoping to build up new information through the blog or stories section. This is where curators or contributors can add in-depth stories about the object or objects that they've uploaded, drawing connections between collection items and even across collections into other institutions. This is a type of exhibition where objects that have never met before can play in a visual playground that perhaps make new stories together. The objects we currently have cover quite a wide range books, tea sets, badges, costumes. In fact, we have a lot of clothes. From christening gowns of the late 1800s to this 1927 costume made entirely out of minties wrappers to football uniforms from Wellington Girls College in the 1970s. We have many photographs showing scenes of girls in action, curious poses in photographer studios on the beach and on the farm. Subjects like family life, fashion and recreation are well represented but we certainly need more. We have some real treasures already online including from the Funganui Regional Museum Laura Taylor's diary. Laura Taylor was the eldest daughter of Reverend Richard Taylor, noted New Zealand missionary who settled his family up the Funganui River and established a mission school amongst many many other things. Laura kept diaries of over 30 years of her life in mid 19th century New Zealand so there's some really amazing stuff in there. From the National Scout Museum we have the June 1910 the Dominion Scout Magazine, New Zealand's official monthly magazine of the Boys and Girls Scouts. Now what makes this magazine particularly interesting to girl history is that the peace scouts existed at all. If any of you know Baden-Powell unofficially allowed the girl guides to be formed in England in 1910. So it's pretty clear that the peace scouts to be featured on the cover of a magazine in the middle of 1910 would have had to exist beforehand and without social media it is really unlikely that the movement instantaneously spread from London to here and had equal footing with the Boy Scouts. So according to current research the girl peace scouts began as early as 1908 which would make them the first girls scouts slash guides in the world. So on to a family contribution. The Acheson McPhail family who've been in New Zealand since the mid 1800s have loaned Girl Museum a collection of photographs for this exhibition. These images capture an array of girl activities from across 150 years. This is a lovely group of girls at Maraitai beach from 1929 in a classic beach scene. Drinking bottled soda from straws pulling faces, big smiles and they're pretty cool outfits and beach shoes I can imagine dressing up like that to go to the beach now. This is a curious studio portrait photograph by Charles Sorrell of Napier the 1880s of a young Māti girl. She's wearing, if you notice, an interesting combination of clothing predominantly European clothes and shoes yet with a kākakiwi feather cloak and a woven crown. It's not like a little princess tiara as a full on a massive crown and she's also holding a parasol. Other curiosity around it is that the Tanaka border around the cloak is actually been painted, it's not woven so it's obviously a prop. So perhaps someone will see this image online and illuminate us as to what the disparate elements mean. Importantly we want to reflect on the changing faces of girlhood in New Zealand and go beyond the Māti pākihātakātami with contributions from the Pacific Island communities, Asian and other immigrant communities. Also to be clear we haven't provided anyone with categories. We are allowing individual institutions to tag their own items according to their data. We can add tags further to further filter but we're letting people do their own thing. So who's participating? Currently we have 11 museums in our community which is really twice as many as I had anticipated. We just launched in February and it's been slow going but yeah, 11 is great. Obviously girl museums contributing objects that have been loaned from family collections and also anonymous donors to Papas participating, Rotorua Museum Raglan, Te Aumutu, Whanganui, the National Scout Museum both the North and South Otago Museums and Owaka we're down in the Catlins. We just welcomed the Chatham Islands Museum and Historic Places Trust is going to join early next year so we're really excited about that. They have a lot of good stuff. So another question flowing from that would be who is using the site? Well, we don't know yet because it isn't on the agenda to care at this point. This is a five-year project. We're still in the building phase. We've not really started advertising or promoting. We've just started promoting the industry to get participants. But organically we've had about 2,000 visitors just find the site or find it through Lincoln Girl Museum. But next year we'll be expanding. So the lessons learned from Kiwi Chicks, the Kiwi Chicks experience are ongoing yet they've been extremely helpful in planning our new sub-community project. All that remains, World War 1 objects in New Zealand Museum collections. This exhibition explores New Zealanders objects related to World War 1 both from overseas and the home front. In order to preserve memories and memorabilia from the war, this project aims to identify wartime objects within New Zealand museums, historic societies, art galleries, RSAs and families to create a moving exhibition that informs and enlightens current generations of the sacrifices of their ancestors for freedom and country. We're currently developing the project plan and designing the front end of the site. Hopefully to go live early next year. With NZ Museums as our primary resource we found over 3,000 objects already online posted by our users. So having identified these we'll be reaching out to those to participate next year. We anticipate that this community will be quite successful as Ihave is a user friendly platform and we already have quite a few people using it and it's quite affordable even for the volunteer only museums. Here are a few examples of the types of objects already available and hopefully a part of our exhibition soon. This handkerchief from Awaka. This is to my dear sister from your loving brother. This gas mask from Mangafai. A photograph of a peace day celebration from Cambridge. A trophy Prussian helmet from Raglan. And a certificate of participation in the Great War from the Kauri Museum. If your museum would like to be a part of this project come talk to us. If your museum is already doing their own digital thing still come talk to us. Maybe we can work together. One last thing. Another exciting aspect to this community is our heroes stories. This is a special partnership with the RSAs. Our goal is to build a relationship between museums and the RSAs to create a legacy and highlight RSA objects and stories. There will be incredible resources housed in the hundreds of RSAs around the country and we want to help them get these stories told and be a part of the digital archive. So to the future. So this is a brief summary of our future plans for each site. Very soon fingers crossed the team at Vernon Systems will be making some improvements and upgrades to NZ museums. Which I'm very excited about because it's definitely time. To change the site to a responsive design so that the content displays well on different devices we'll be updating the home page to enable easier access to Kiwi checks and World War 1s community sites because at the moment they're not actually click through a bull. Currently E-Hive shows clickable links between object records based on key fields like object type or artist and this feature will also be rolled out to NZ museums to make it easier to browse content. And we'll also be embedding metadata and object pages to make content more usable for search engines and things like Facebook and Twitter links. So I have lots plans for Kiwi checks. Currently we are in a five year lifespan as I said. I plan to double the participants by the end of next year. We'll also be reaching out to girls schools from all over the country to get them involved and contribute to the exhibition as well as use it for research and then reaching out from the virtual world into the physical world I want to create an assembly team of curators to pick key objects from the online exhibition that represent different aspects of New Zealand and produce a travelling exhibition that can visit regional museums and girls schools. I also want to get young historians involved help them become junior curators to look after the exhibition and I'd also like to establish a trust dedicated to preserving New Zealand and celebrating the amazing girls at Kiwi Chicks are. With the trust support the exhibition could become self-sustaining and go well beyond the five years. All that remains only has a future because we've just begun to work on it but we anticipate being online in early 2014 and reaching out to our contributors and we'll be holding workshops around the country in order to support museums and RSAs to participate. Our mission is to collaborate and analyze and commemorating the great war together. My final comment on the future is that anyone can create a sub-community in exhibition. If your museum is a member of Enza Museums which it possibly is then it's pretty easy to do it'd be great if you all started one. If you're interested in that we're happy to assist so just let me know. Thank you. Hi. You're growing the partnerships of the museums and so on who have girl material but what opportunity is or how do individuals who might have material come in through that virtual entry a few if you like. Do they have to go in through a museum or how does that work? At the moment how we're dealing with it with Kiwi Chicks is we create a virtual loan to grow museum either as a family and we give the family credit or I have a few that are choose to be anonymous so that's how we're dealing with it for Kiwi Chicks that's on the table for World War I and how we want to proceed with that. We won't be that way. We'll find a different way to do it because absolutely the family objects are going to be key. Hopefully we can help create the partnerships within the communities that the family is in so they can have a relationship with their historic society or maybe do it via that way but we're still talking about it but that's definitely a concern. Someone seems to use that. Do they see you as an interpreter? Are they someone transcribed or can you actually read them? Did everyone hear that question? If someone sends us something do they also send all the accompanying data and interpretation? Yes in that we've got that from the museums and they've given us what they're willing to put online. I would say further to get the transcriptions and all that I would be sending people back to the Funganui Museum so we're essentially a conduit to gather these objects together so we can see a picture and I would never report to replace the actual museum. I would always send them back to the actual source. They are translated, the Laura Taylor Diaries published in a book. I don't know if they're online Hi there, this is just building off Sue's question. It's probably a question about NZ museums in general for national services. Would you consider materials from institutions that aren't museums? So for example let's say that there's a local library who have images from objects or various things. Would you be interested in talking with them if they're not technically a museum? Is that a problem? I can't see why it would be a problem. I've actually just recently signed up the Hocken and it was just a decision I made. I would define a museum quite broadly and I would certainly consider it a library. I think with the communities we're pushing the boundary out a bit so with Kiwi checks we want schools libraries would definitely fall in our category before schools would have museums. So we're just pushing out. So I don't think anyone necessarily would be turned down. That's great because I think in New Zealand there is a bit of a gap we have for repositories or places where people can actually load things up. I mean sure we can put them on Flicko or we can build our own repositories but I'd really encourage you to think about that and see how we can, because there are lots of institutions, other types of organizations that could well use this service and who may not have thought that they could be part of NZ museums. Thank you. Forgive me if I missed it when you were speaking. Is there a curation process that you go through for either of those? So when you're signing up another museum to participate you go through and select the material together that would be appropriate? No. No, it's entirely up to them what they want to put on. For the exhibitions, there's a brief and if they're interested in participating I send them a brief and I'm being very trusting but I can take things down if I want to and yeah that's just part of the agreement that if it fits within this broad remit then it's a go. We haven't had any that I've had a problem with thus far but it would be a conversation but I'm hoping these are things that have already been curated on the museum's end. Just another question just around Kiwi checks. Are you targeting that content at a particular audience segment or is it just anyone that might be interested or is it the researcher end as opposed to citizen or the audience of the consumer or what you're putting out? So the consumer end is in development because I really didn't know what the uptake would be within the museum and wider community to even put things on so that's why I made it five years so this first year was really just to see who would participate next year would be the people we might have to nag to participate and also start talking about how are people going to use it and I was going to start with schools as a resource for schools. That might be the one way round but let me know. I thought it was a really interesting cycle because if you're bringing people to participate you're actually bringing a broader community to start using as well. It's a oneness. My great grandmother's wax doll sits here in Te Papa, way back in the back cupboard somewhere which I haven't seen since the old Dominion Museum days. If I wanted to pull that out as a family piece to contribute to that, what's the process behind that? You just started it. I can follow that up for sure with you. Awesome. Thank you.