Make It Digital has launched!
We're all quite excited because our new site, Make It Digital, launched today.
The site is focused on creating and sharing New Zealand digital content, which we're tackling in two ways:
1. The Guides and Ask a Question sections are designed to help people who are trying to create new digital content, or digitise their stuff. A lot of you will have questions on how to go about digitisation and this is the place where you can ask. We hope that some of you will be able to share your expertise by answering others' questions, and helping us to write and update the guides.
2. The Voting section - It's a public forum for people to share their ideas for new NZ digital content, with voting and commenting functions. There's some great ideas in there already that you can vote on, for example, School Journal, New Zealand music artwork and Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives.
Please jump in and have a play, ask some questions, vote or nominate something for voting.
Within 24 hours, we would love to see Make It Digital reach 100 content items nominated for voting. There will be spot prizes for interesting and useful contributions during launch day!
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Posted by Jo | 26 Jun 2009 09:10
It's great! Interactive and busy - plenty to do, see and consider. Even love the size of text! Easy to read and scan - very user friendly. How very cool to have a site that has an across the board approach too. Way2Go DigitalNZ!
Posted by Noel Broadhead | 29 Jun 2009 15:59
Congratulations on developing such a useful - and good looking - website! I look forward to seeing the site grow quickly.
Noel
Copyright & Digitisation
University of Wollongong
Posted by Heidi S. Raatz | 30 Jun 2009 08:28
Congratulations on your incredibly user-friendly site about all things digitization! The site has been "tweeted" by mnmuseums on Twitter, where I picked up the information, re-tweeted, and further spread the good news to the listserv of the Visual Resources Assn. I've briefly perused most of the sections and look forward to investigating them in greater depth. Duly bookmarked as a terrific resource and one for which I feel absolutely no qualms about sending to novices to the world of digitizing. You've even managed to make metadata less scary!
Congratulations!
Heidi Raatz
Visual Resources Librarian, Minneapolis Institute of Arts