Owaka Museum is situated in the beautiful Catlins region of the South Island of New Zealand. This award- winning museum is a new facility, and has been a real focal point for the community since it opened in 2007. Its collections detail the pioneering history of the area, with focus also on the coastal environment and its unique history. The collections reveal fantastic tales of early industry, life in the remote pioneering community, and the challenges of farming and living in the demanding climate.
Archives for 2009
New features added January 2009
Two minor updates to eHive were performed during January 2009. These included several fixes and enhancements:
- Stylesheet changes to fix page displays in some browsers (particularly Internet Explorer 6.0)
- Fixed a problem saving changes to the edit (create) screen
- Added new sorting options in the result views
- Reduced the compression in image thumbnails to give better quality
User Tagging of Online Cultural Heritage Items
‘User Tagging of Online Cultural Heritage Items’ is a paper that has been prepared by a team of four staff from various Australian museums, archives and libraries on the value of user tagging. The paper is the result of a survey of Australian and New Zealand cultural institutions, and comes to some interesting conclusions.
With regard to eHive, it is interesting to note the conclusions drawn by the authors that user tagging of records not only helps broaden interpretation of collections, but is invaluable in “engaging and creating communities from afar” (piii), and “giving the public a sense of ownership” (piii).
The paper is brief but includes the survey, responses, bibliography and a handy glossary of terms.
Follow the link below to read the article in PDF format