 e hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, e ngare he toa takitini, na mihinu i kie koutou katoa ko Victoria Pasa o Tokoingawa. Good morning everybody, my name is Victoria and today I will be presenting with a beautiful clear land yin about online Senataf. Online Senataf is a biographical database of New Zealand military personnel and it also includes non-New Zealanders who served in the New Zealand forces and it dates from the New Zealand wars right up until Afghanistan and it was established by the Auckland Museum in 1996 and it includes about 140,000 records to date and it mainly focuses on the First World War and this is a screenshot of the old Senataf database as it was called and as you can sort of tell it's pretty data heavy doesn't provide you with a huge amount of context to sort of be in the know on what that information meant and where we got that information from. It was very much a push out service so that meant that we told you what was the verified information. You could provide us with feedback but you could see on that page that there's really not much space for you to sort of engage in the site and so we luckily received funding from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to redevelop the website and we launched on the 22nd of January of this year and I should say that this record is my great-grandfather's record and we're going to see the updated version of Online Senataf. So Online Senataf now allows for user-generated content to be added so the public can add information, images, documents and notes throughout the record so they can contribute to every field. The database was also transferred from the DB Text platform to Vernon and so that was quite a major task. I think it was a lot bigger than what we thought at the beginning so we spent a lot of time testing and migrating that content over before we launched. Okay, so this is what the record looks like so it's the same record with my family updating some photos and adding some notes and you can see every field can be added to. It's quite a long record which we'll touch on in a moment and all the content that you add is published automatically we don't moderate anything. It's a good core team of two who work on this project so to try and verify all this content would have been a little bit unreasonable. The new database allows us to source the content that we put into the core database as well as the user-generated content and contributors can be contacted if they choose to be contacted through emails so we sort of stay out of the sometimes arji-barji that happens between people adding content and other people not agreeing with it. So you think, wow, this looks really great. You must have got positive feedback all the way around. No. So we launched on the 22nd of January, day after somebody told us it was a load of rubbish. I think the project's really taught me to toughen up. Not quite succeeded yet. I'm still a little bit of a baby when it comes to this. I try not to take it personally but we've been captured by a snake oil salesman. Thanks, digital IT people. You're the best. And that photo of the guy really reminds me of Max Gimblett. I was like, are you sure that's not Max Gimblett? But it's not. No, I don't think so. And so we also got a lot of feedback from our historians and our genealogists who a lot of our genealogists used to like to just copy and paste records, which was totally fine because this is all publicly available information into their own databases. And so a lot of the older people, mature people or people who don't necessarily enjoy technology found the new site to be a little bit challenging. And somebody said that anyone older than 60 years wasn't going to be able to use it. But we've found that one of our users has added 3,000 pieces of data in there in their 60s. So, you know, swings and roundabouts. And that was only again four days after launch. Just breathe that in. So during the first couple of months before Anzac Day, which was our like big launch day, it was a completely soft launch. So we didn't tell anybody we were launching. It just, people just love to give us feedback. We also got really positive feedback, constructive feedback. You can, you know, give us, we can take it. Well, I can't really, but it's fine. So we did get constructive feedback within this sort of content. And overall we've received about 2,000 inquiries, 50 of which were pretty, as my Michelle calls it, brick-bat level. But that's totally fine compared to 2,000 pretty happy customers. We've had about 25,000 pieces of data added. The website now is really allowing for more personal and official data to interact, which is really great. So people are able and feel comfortable putting up information that it can never be verified. You know, I love, my granddad was called Bubby and you're like, okay, well that's fine. So before we couldn't, we'd have to verify it and then if we couldn't verify it then it wouldn't go up. But now people can put that information in themselves. And then the other element which is really great is that a lot of schools have been using this website and a lot of school children want to do something when they go on the site. They may not be able to add data, but they can lay a poppy. And so every year these poppies will be removed and you'll be able to remember the service person again. But for us in terms of our process, the images have been a major coup for us to be able to get 6,500 images up on the site within the last eight months is really impressive. We had a very small team of staff including just maybe two or three hours a week of somebody scanning images to archival quality. And so with our really dodgy maths, we sort of guesstimated that it would take us about 10 years to add that many images because we just weren't at the time being able to scan as much as we wanted so being able to get 6,500 images up is just awesome. So this is the technical element of it is that people are very concerned that our content, the core data which has been verified from military personnel files, nominal roles and other primary and secondary sources were going to be completely dirtied by the public and don't worry, it's all in Vernon, all of the verified content is in Vernon and other collection management system which is Kentico that the museum uses keeps all of the user-generated content. As I said, we don't moderate the content, it's automatically published but we can edit, remove, delete the content that has been added by people so it's not as if it's just up there. And then that content is then put up into the UI and at the moment Kentico is not able to be searched by the user interface so hopefully at some point we'll be able to make the user-generated content searchable through the website. So this picture is just to say that at the beginning in terms of the enquiries, not in terms of the technical side of things I was the only one really responding to enquiries so it's about sort of trying to emphasise that you need to have a team of people, a workflow to be able to support a project just because it's online and people can add content themselves doesn't mean you can just walk away and leave it to sort of sort of sort itself out. So we had to sort of think on our feet and create a really strong enquiries, workflow and also just change our ethos in terms of how we support people before we sort of tended to be a little bit of gatekeepers like you can't put that information up, we have all the information们 anrengi maespa ndi wath yama i manaki phaeja mŕtamaant pa bactσε ngai uwi bunci angi, d ولu mowagin'a ini, mese congratulations to our oversea aien po te connects raiapi maka임 teimos i ngai wow kai i chansani Thank you. So, I am responsible for the Haipo-Araha Community Senatāf part of the project. And it really is about bringing the community in, first of all, I guess, making online Senatāf visible, encouraging people to use it and encouraging people to contribute to it. So, we received a very generous lottery grant, to, I guess, do a couple of things. One of those things was to redevelop some galleries, some World War I galleries. But the other part was this community project. And as part of it, there are two physical elements. So, one of those things is this mobile roadshow unit that you see there. And inside, we share three stories of service personnel from online Senatāf. But the most important thing that's in there are these things called artefact digitisation units. So, we have nine of these artefact digitisation units. Two of them, in fact, three go out in the mobile roadshow unit. But the cool thing is they're locked down to online Senatāf and obviously some websites that make sense around that. People can sit down or stand in front of it and search for their person. And then underneath that keyboard, you can just see a little shiny glowing box. That's a photo booth. So, essentially, people can bring in their objects, their letters, their diaries, their medals. Anything that relates to a person within online Senatāf digitise that and immediately it will upload to online Senatāf so anybody across the world can see it straight away. So, one of the cool things about this project is we have nine of them, as I've already said. But seven of those we loan to libraries, RSAs, museums and other heritage organisations or even events that make sense. So, they go out, they're a standalone thing. If anybody in the audience is interested in borrowing one, please come and have a chat with me. It's a four-year programme so there's plenty of time, obviously, for you to take it on. You can see here, this is an actual photo that was taken on Anzac Day. This lady, whose hands you can see, she was wearing her grandfather's medals so she digitised those and she was able to share them with her brother who's not very happy that she has the medals. Ending amusing. So, this is another story that happened on Anzac Day and Victoria and I often go out to these events. It's really easy when you sit in the museum to almost forget that there's this personal side behind it but we hear these amazing stories every day and we see amazing things that are brought into us that we just wouldn't have access to usually and people are very, very appreciative to be able to share that. So, this particular group, there was about 15 in this family and they'd just been to the dawn service and they walked in and started typing on the artefact digitisation unit. They found that person straight away and in little groups they had family photographs standing around the ADU with that person in the middle and it was just such a cool thing. I kind of had to take a photo of it. And from a couple of days after we launched an image was added by a person from Malta and his name happened to be Albert and he added an image onto an Albert's record so that's a little bit confusing. And it was amazing because it was a carving of Albert Waitford's serial number that was carved into stone on a boulder in Malta and we just found out this week that one of his family has gone to Malta to meet with Albert who uploaded the image. So, yeah, it's just one of the really cool stories that we have. Yeah, and not only that, we've had dog tags returned back to families and medals so you have this interaction of families, I guess, meeting each other for the first time or strangers meeting for the first time saying, hey, I've got this thing. I think it might belong to you. It's really cool. So, here at NDF Today we are launching a social media campaign called Discover Your Connection. So, really this was about enabling people to, first of all, identify a connection if they have a known or a familial connection but also recognizing that only 40% of New Zealanders believe that they have a connection to somebody in World War I. So, we kind of took that to heart and really wanted to recognize it and enable people to commemorate and provide a focus for that commemoration. So, this is the hashtag. Unfortunately, you have to look at my face for a couple of minutes. This is a tweet that I did on Saturday and you can probably hear that I've got this weird English Australian accent. I'm fairly new to New Zealand and my grandfather served in World War I but I knew that he wouldn't be on the database. He was English. So, I put in my most important name, my maiden name and found a guy called Cornelius O'Connor and it was so amazing because this guy shares my dad's name and what a weird name it is. So, you know, I did and it was cool and I had a little look at his record and he also lived or was born 20 km away from where my dad was born. So, he's my guy and I encourage you to hop onto Online Sinitaf, have a look, put in a name, a place, a date. Some relevant thing that you are interested in, please tweet, use the hashtag, discover your connection. It would be great if you could also put a link to that within the tweet so that others are able to have a look at your connection and maybe discover theirs and if you're really, really kind, please also add in our Auckland Museum handle. So, the future. To be honest, we don't know what we don't know so we're not really sure how our content's going to be used but we're really excited to say that the API has been opened up and it is described with linked open data so you'll be able to utilise it in any way that you want. We're really appreciative of the Museum providing ongoing enhancement support for the next few years so we will be able to tweak any things that the people who think it's rubbish will be happy with and also just being able to create connections and we just want to say a big thank you to all the institutions and organisations that have supported the launch. It's not just us, it's been a lot of people helping us along the way. Thank you very much.