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Utaina: Preserving the Nation’s Audiovisual Heritage

Utaina is a multi-year collaborative digitisation project, come hear about how we navigate our way through this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to preserve and ensure ongoing access to this rich taonga!

Utaina is a multi-year collaborative digitisation project between Archives New Zealand, National Library, and Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision to digitise over 400,000 items held in our audiovisual collections. Come hear about how we navigate our way through this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to preserve and ensure ongoing access to this rich taonga!

Health & Safety

There are stairs down each side of the Auditorium and a handrail on each side of the stairs. There should be sufficient space at the back of the Auditorium for anyone in a wheelchair to participate in the event.

Location
National Library of New Zealand, Taiwhanga Kauhau - Auditorium (National Library Auditorium), Corner Molesworth & Aitken St, Thorndon, Wellington

Regions

Wellington CBD

Tags

Talk

Event times

5-6:10pm Thu 26 Oct

Free

Archives New Zealand – Te Rua o te Mahara Kāwanatanga

Archives New Zealand’s regulatory role ensures effective, trusted government information for the benefit of Aotearoa. We preserve and protect more than seven million official records created by the government and public institutions of Aotearoa New Zealand. From treaties, documents and data, national film, and art, our goal is for all New Zealanders to easily access and use this taonga, connecting you to your rights and entitlements and stories – now and for the future.

Email: UtainaProject@dia.govt.nz

Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision

Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision collects, catalogues and stores film reels, video tapes and sound on disc and tape. Our experts work against time to preserve original nitrate film, television broadcast tapes and sound recordings, before they degrade. We manage rights and clearance processes and facilitate access to the collection for researchers, the media industry, the museum sector and anyone who wants to discover the audiovisual stories of the past. We digitally preserve audiovisual material to ensure that it stands the test of time for future generations.

National Library – Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa

National Library collects, connects, and co-creates knowledge to power New Zealand. Focusing on taonga, knowledge, and reading, we are caretakers of collections such as music, paintings, prints, manuscripts, newspapers, oral histories, and comics. Alexander Turnbull Library is part of the National Library with collections including oral histories, photographs, music, digital materials, rare books, and fine printing. We are here to help you access and use the collective knowledge of the nation. It is home to the Alexander Turnbull Library, a leading research library which holds the world's foremost Katherine Mansfield collection.