New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

{{Short description|Digital library of New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials}}

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The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC; {{langx|mi|Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa}}) is a freely accessible online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012.{{cite web |url= http://nzetc.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-nzetc-has-new-look.html |title=The NZETC has a new look |date=10 October 2012 |work=The Blog of the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=10 June 2019}}

At the beginning of 2012 the collection contained over 1,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day.[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About.html About NZETC] on the official website It is one of two similar collections of older New Zealand publications that have been digitised, the other being the Early New Zealand Books collection from the University of Auckland Library.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Digital media and the internet – Information |first=Russell |last=Brown |url= https://teara.govt.nz/en/digital-media-and-the-internet/page-7 |encyclopedia=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |date=22 October 2014 |access-date=10 June 2019}}

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection was transferred from Victoria University of Wellington to the National Library of New Zealand on 2 July 2024. The National Library makes it available in its web archive.{{cite web |title=The NZETC is now hosted by the National Library of New Zealand |date=9 August 2024 |url= https://nzetc.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-nzetc-is-now-hosted-by-national.html |publisher= Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=30 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC) |url= https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/new-zealand-electronic-text-collection-nzetc |publisher= National Library of New Zealand |access-date=30 December 2024}}

Projects and activities

The Library worked with partners within Victoria University on projects for the NZETC including:

Turbine, a literary journal (in cooperation with the International Institute of Modern Letters)
Best New Zealand Poems (in cooperation with the International Institute of Modern Letters)
Tidal Pools, to make available texts on Pacific islands history, language, culture and politics (in cooperation with Va'aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies unit)
Design Review, a Wellington architecture and design magazine from the late 1940s and early 1950s

The NZETC worked with external partners, such as:

Digitisation and e-publishing of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868–1961 (in cooperation with the National Library of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library)
Learning Media (in cooperation with the Ministry of Education)
La Trobe Journal (in cooperation with the Australian State Library of Victoria){{cite web |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About-projects.html |title=About the NZETC projects |publisher=Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz |access-date=2012-07-30}}

Copyrights

When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).{{cite web |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About-copyright.html |title=About copyrights |publisher= nzetc.victoria.ac.nz}}

Methodology and technology

The NZETC is a part of the Text Encoding Initiative community of practice. They encode all their textual content in TEI XML which is transformed dynamically into HTML using XSLT.{{cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About-technology.html |title=Technology|publisher=NZETC |date=2005-05-05 |access-date=2012-07-30}} Authority files are maintained for works, people, places, organisations and, unusually, ships.{{cite web |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NZETC-About.html |title=About the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection |work=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=10 June 2019}} Topic Maps are used for the main website structure.

References

External links

[https://webarchive.natlib.govt.nz/catalog?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=NZETC Homepage] in NZ Web Archive
[https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/ Former homepage] at Victoria University of Wellington, now archived
[https://nzetc.blogspot.com/ NZETC Blog]
[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-turbine.html Turbine]
[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/bestnzpoems/index.html Best New Zealand Poems]
[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-kotare.html Kotare]
[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-pacific.html Tidal Pools]

Category:New Zealand digital libraries

Category:Victoria University of Wellington

Category:Text Encoding Initiative

Category:Digital Humanities Centers