 Kia ora tato, ātapnwere o muntahara. Ako mi ertai i niwiaisunari i niwiaisunari, mi unlocku i annolälisua ng yolu aula, ng ka muntahara i aula sydepthai tata. Maka ganolri i tata o te ricao kai tata ganolo i tata. Pai tata ngi delau kai te ricao aula aula muntahara i tata. Pai tata i niwiaisunari i tata. Maka ganolri i tata i tata. Pai tata i tata i tata. Mi luve i tata i tata. Pai tata i tata i tata. Mata ii i zainas tha, jogi i aningadu, Ngācaw i Maida i Aqibau i iaядu pa i i tupapa nilcemeu apu'i tupapa. Apu i te atu tupapa, pareta ti i daltare i te mwahania dā hātumapai. Apu i mwahania tupapa, kaniria tupapa, mwahania tupapa, mwahania tupapa, mwahania tupapa, mwahania tupapa i aqibapia tupapa, mwahania tupapa i aqibapia i tupapa i aqibapia i tupapa i tupapa i tupapa, o'r gana bai gud. Azi u expect, it takes a lot to put on a conference like this particularly on volunteer time so I'd just like to take a few minutes to acknowledge everyone's involvement before we get started. Firstly, a huge thanks to our keynotes George Oates, Claire Amos, Josie Babosa, Ben Osteen and Trevor Owens. Thank you to those of you who have come so far for your time and the energy that you're giving to our community. And to all of our speakers from Australia and New Zealand and the organisations you represent thank you also for your time and commitment to NDF. It's wonderful to have you here. A huge thank you of course goes out to our sponsors and supporters. This year being headlined by Auckland Museum, the National Library of New Zealand to Papa and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. We'd also like to thank Tunga Sound and Vision for their support. This year the trade hall is sponsored by Vernon Systems and Recalect. So please go and talk with them. They do a lot of work in our sectors and we're really lucky to have their support. They're joined by our other sponsors Internet New Zealand Victoria University School of Information Management, Wellington City Council and museums Aotearoa. Without their support the conference just wouldn't be able to happen so thank you. And thank you also to the many people involved in putting this conference together. A special thanks to Thomas and Slay and Michael Perry for heading up the program team this year. It's really shaped up well. So thank you. And thanks also to Dave Sanderson and the rest of the organising team for supporting that. You'll also be seeing Thomas and Michael up here on the stage over the next few days as they introduce a few of the sessions. Thanks to Sarah Knox and Michael Lascarades for coordinating all the workshops and events. I heard the workshops yesterday went really well so that's great. And Amy Joseph for help with registration and logistics. Claire Murdoch for sponsorship. Leith Ha-Hoff for web support. Fiona Feldzen for conference support and Alan Paula for an amazing job pulling together the handbook. I'd also just like to personally thank Matthew Oliver for his support this year. And thanks to Pada Coopers our conference organisers for keeping everything running smoothly. Lastly, really just a thanks to all of you for being here whether you've been here before or whether you've, you know, this is your first time. This event is for you. And we'd also be remiss if we didn't also thank the many organisations that make it possible for you to be here. To Papa again is putting on the free wi-fi. Should be pretty easy to find. And you'll also find power plugs in some of the rows in the theatre. And if you're not seeing a plug near you then have a look during the breaks to find one if you need it. So the hashtag this year is NDFNZ. Now that is different to what's printed in the handbook. Sorry about that. But best use this one please. We've committed again to live streaming the event. So particularly the keynotes. So, you know, please tweet that out. The stream location is on the homepage of the NDF website ndf.org.nz and we're again recording all of the sessions including the streamed sessions upstairs. We'll be getting those up on YouTube as soon as we can after the conference. And if you need any help with anything else, then please just talk to the Parakupas team upstairs in Oceania. In terms of the conference there is a lot going on, as you'd expect. We've again got a mix of plenary sessions in here and streamed sessions where you'll be back you'll be upstairs. We've also got a couple of special events that I want to tell you about. First up is the keynote café. Now, so this is an opportunity to come and speak with our wonderful keynotes. I mean, you can speak to them at any time throughout the conference, of course. But at lunchtime there'll be an opportunity to actually sit down and have a chat with them. One of the big challenges we always face at NDF is that there's always at least one speaker who's at the very end of the conference. And you sometimes get that situation where you really want to speak to them but then it's too late. So I'm just going to do a quick run-through of who our keynotes are this year so that you know who they look like and you can go and chat to them. So in reverse chronological order George Oates is currently director of a design firm in London called Good Form and Spectacle and you can speak with her about designing interfaces that people love, user experience design, art direction, product management and working with complex systems and redesigning workflows. Jose Barbosa has a long history with the media and you can speak with him about the history of censorship in New Zealand, news and journalism, documentary making, writing and creating. He's a user of our collections. So pay attention to what he says. Claire Amos is a Deputy Principal at Hobsonville Point Secondary School in Auckland and you can speak with her about e-learning and schools teaching English, keeping our kids safe online, blended learning environments and future focus change in the education sector. Ben Osteen is the technical lead for the British Library Labs project and you can speak with him about open access strategies, crowd sourcing, data preservation, 3D printing, digital humanities, developer events and hardware hacking. And we're going to be hearing more about Trevor Owens shortly because he is our first keynote but if you're interested in digital curation, digital preservation, online communities, video games and culture, open source or digital humanities, then he's your man. Now of course you can talk to these fine folk about anything you like but that's just really a bit of a heads up of some of the things that they know a lot about. Tonight of course we've got our reception event up in Oceania. So please head on up after Ben's keynote for some good conversation, a bite to eat and a few drinks. And if you're new to NDF then I really recommend you head up because it's a lot of fun and everyone's really friendly. You're really friendly right? Yes, good. Tomorrow morning we hold the NDF AGM. In the past we've held this during the lunch break we've just decided to have breakfast this time. So a light breakfast is available and you should be there at 7.45am for an 8am start and if you haven't registered for the AGM, could you go and speak with Diane up at the NDF stand in Oceania because we need to know whether you're coming or not. Since the last NDF conference last year of course we have launched our membership program and thank you to everyone who has signed up as a member. It's been a brilliant year in terms of membership and you'll hear more about that at the AGM. And if you want to join as a member of NDF, the details are on our website and you can sign up and join the Community Forum. We are pleased to announce that we're also launching the NDF Awards tomorrow. So Matthew Oliver will be back up on stage in the closing session to recognise some of the standout achievements in our sectors this year. We have a few categories. I was not involved in the naming. The categories are, look who's talking for the best social media initiative. Getting your scans on for a new digitisation project. It ain't been done before for innovative use of something completely new and shiny new thing for a new digital exhibition or collection. We'll also be recognising one of our ambassadors and a standout ambassador this year for NDF. Now, your role in this is to nominate initiatives or people for recognition in these categories. And we've also got an open category for other people or initiatives that you'd like to see recognised. Now, the online nomination form is here, ndf.org.nz slash awards. So please be generous and nominate your colleagues for their great work this year. This afternoon, we'll also be inviting the Living Heritage Team to the stage to recognise the efforts of school children in creating online stories about their communities. You'll hear more about Living Heritage this afternoon, but just a small reminder to all speakers and looking at you that there will be children in the audience. So we're expecting all talks to be family friendly please. This is also a good time to note that NDF has a new code of conduct or has a code of conduct that you can find on our website ndf.org.nz slash code. So it's actually a pretty good read and something you should all be aware of so when you've got a minute, please check it out. Last but not least we've decided this year to add an unconference session to the conference this year and it's running in the last streamed session tomorrow. Here's how it's going to work. Up in Oceana you'll find a whiteboard with some posted notes available and what we'd like you to do is write up the topics that you'd like to talk about and put your name on it and feel free to group the posted notes if there are a few ideas that are looking similar. And then tomorrow we will tell you what the unconference agenda is going to look like and if you're interested in those topics then come along and participate. So the question is what might we like to talk about? Some of you may remember from NDF last year one of the national challenges we set was about being smarter about digitisation and you may also remember my fondness for the New Zealand Cartoon Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library. So in order to frame up this challenge again let me take you back to 2002 which is the year in which the National Digital Forum was actually formed it's actually hard to believe it was created that long ago. That's the unconference session tomorrow. So in 2002 we had, or we still had the war on terror. This is from Malcolm Walker and with apologies to our Australian friends we had a refugee crisis in Afghanistan we were concerned about the price of housing this from Christopher Slane and the commercialisation of the All Blacks was running rampant. This from James Hubbard. So that was 13 years ago and earlier this year I also dug up the full output from the first NDF conference and republished it on the NDF website and it's absolutely fascinating. It's on the about section of the website if someone could tweet it out please and here are some of the opportunities that we were talking about 13 years ago and look I apologise for putting a screen of bullet points upon stage so early in the morning but I wanted to make these points pretty quickly so back then we saw the opportunities with access so the ability to provide better access to collections and institutions 24 hours a day 7 days a week and for those who traditionally may not have been able to access the materials education providing and assisting different forms of educational experience promoting a New Zealand identity tourism and cultural heritage commercial opportunities new opportunities for wealth creation and driving economic returns resource sharing to make better use of scarce resources breaking down silos between organisations and preservation of collections and fragile materials and here are some of the challenges that we have identified how can we work out what to digitise sustainability and funding who pays how do we care for and maintain our digital collections skills and training are organisations and people able to take advantage of the opportunities do they have the right skills and training ownership and property rights moral rights how do we honour and present information correctly how do we resolve issues of indigenous rights the digital divide which leads who drives which institutions should there be national infrastructure technology how do we digitise where do we go to for advice so I have just read that out word for word as it was documented 13 years ago the currency of this just kind of smacks you in the face Im mean this is 13 years ago and this is exactly the same kind of stuff if we got around a whiteboard challenges. It would be pretty much exactly like this. So I come back again, why is that challenge about being smarter about digitisation important? Well it's because content is at the heart of all of the experiences and opportunities that we create in our organisations. Without content our items and our objects we cannot function as museums, libraries, archives and galleries and neither can we function as wellsprings of education or creation without our content. And that is, you know, that's what's happening every day for many people because if it's not online it's like it doesn't exist and I talked about this last year. If it's not on Google and they can't find it it's like it doesn't exist. And I don't disagree that our physical spaces and experiences are important. You know they absolutely are. There's nothing quite like experiencing an artwork, an exhibition, a handwritten diary or an archival record first hand or being in a community space that is welcoming and supportive. But I just don't think we are ready for what comes next. You know we're not ready for the day when Amazon or some other equivalent service launches a Spotify type service for free access to its library of books. You know with the back catalogue of New Zealand published materials just not available electronically. We are not ready for the kids who want to 3D print objects for a pop-up experience at home or in the classroom. You know if they can't get the full digital skeleton of a moa are they just going to go with an emu? Our archives are not ready for the new wave of search services that are going to be powered by our phones. You know and our artworks are not ready for the immersive virtual reality experiences that are starting to open up the world's art. You know it's fantastic that our kids will be able to explore them in Alisa without leaving New Zealand. But where is our New Zealand art? Where is our Pacific art? You know what used to sound like science fiction. You know if you've been coming to these events for a few years these are things that were bubbling up over the last 13 years. I mean it used to sound like science fiction. It is not science fiction anymore. And in the eyes of the general public if it's not in the free digital library if the 3D model isn't there if Siri or Google now can't find the thing that they're looking for and if it's not an artwork that I can see on my VR headset it's going to be like it just doesn't exist. You know for the vast majority of people. And maybe you're thinking that's okay. I'm thinking you're not since this is a digital conference. That's what you're here for. But you know there are people out there who you know and it's reasonable to say well we're mainly about the experience that people have when they come into our physical spaces. Our museums, our exhibitions, our reading rooms, our galleries. You know and like I said I think that's perfectly reasonable. But we're leaving money on the table. You know I know all of our organisations are different. But at the National Library for instance we're approaching a ratio of 100 digital experience to everyone walk-in visitor. And there are huge opportunities there to further our goals through digital interaction. And that's why we keep coming back to topics like digitisation. The source of digital material and preservation. It's the foundation from which everything else becomes possible. So very simply we need to start wanting to continue strengthening those foundations. So if you're going to participate in the unconference sessions this year let's not recover that same ground we covered 13 years ago. Let's talk about how to make the next big steps. And not just about digitisation of course. Let's hear about all of the ideas and knowledge that you've got to share with others. And where can we work together to improve the value that New Zealand gets from our services and what we've got to offer. So it'll be really interesting to see what you all put up on the board. Like I said it's a free for all so go for it. At the end of the day the National Digital Forum is simply a network for those of us working in this digital space. And it's a place for us to share our ideas and experiences and to learn from each other. And it's an environment where collaboration becomes more possible. So be open to that and enjoy yourself. It's going to be a great few days and let's get on with it. It's now my pleasure to properly introduce you to Trevor Owens for our opening keynote. Trevor is based at the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington D.C. Which is the primary source of federal support for the United States 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. He has a background in digital collecting and preservation and he's currently responsible for the development of their national digital platform. He is a doctorate in social science research methods and educational technology. And his research is focused on the history and design of online community software systems, video games and culture and software tools for humanities scholarship. He's here to speak with us about people, communities and platforms, digital cultural heritage and the web. Please join me in welcoming Trevor to the stage.