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Make it Digital Voting Tool

 

A long-standing problem for digitisation programmes has been assessing demand.  If you are digitising a resource with existing demand, it is reasonable to expect demand will only increase.  But if digitisation provides access for the first time, or allows discovery through searching or scanning the resource much more quickly than in analogue form, there is no ready predictor of demand.

While demand is only one of the factors top consider for selecting content for digitisation, it can be an important one.  At DigitalNZ, we've developed the Make it Digital Voting tool as a way for people to communicate their need for NZ digital content through informal votes, comments and conversation.  New Zealand is a small nation, and we need to be creative about how to encourage digitisation and the creation of new digital content. Having a good understanding of what people actually want and why is a good start.

How can my organisation use this feature?

If your organisation has plans to digitise content, you can get feedback on your proposals by posting your digitisation plans. A suggested approach is:

  1. Create a new user account with the name of your organisation in the username e.g. TimbuktuMuseum
  2. For every digitisation option you are considering, post a new idea for people to comment on
  3. Start a local campaign to encourage your customers to look at your ideas and share their opinions. You might like to encourage them to post their own ideas as well
  4. On each idea page you'll be able to click on your name (e.g. TimbuktuMuseum ) and get a page that lists all the ideas you have posted. You can send the web address (URL) of this page to people you'd like feedback from
  5. On each idea page (e.g. the School Journal idea) there is a "Share this idea" button. Use this feature grab a banner advert and link so you can promote your ideas on your website or blog
  6. Once you have gathered customer feedback you can use the Make it Digital Scorecard to help make decisions about what to digitise

If you do use these tools to support your digitisation planning, we'd love to hear about it. Drop us a note at advice@digitalnz.org.

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