The Waitangi Treaty Grounds are the historical site of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi); New Zealand’s founding document. The 506 hectare site was gifted to New Zealand in trust by Lord and Lady Bledisloe in 1932 and is now home to numerous artefacts of key historical significance, as well as being a vibrant and active historical site. Their collections comprise Māori and Pākehā historical artefacts, archives and art.
31 March 2009 Update
A minor update to eHive was performed on 31 March 2009.
It included:
- New short aliases for common fields to save typing when searching. You can read about search aliases in the Help Topic –http://en.wiki.ehive.com/wiki/Searching#Internal_field_names
- Payment screen now live for account purchases and renewals
12 March 2009 Update
It’s been seven weeks since the last update to eHive and the team at Vernon Systems have been busy.
The 12 March 2009 update includes:
- New tab in the create/edit screen for Acquisition – 13 new fields covering acquisition notes, value, funding, credits and provenance.
- New tab in the create/edit screen for Administration – 29 new fields covering status, activities, deaccessioning, copyright, research and comments.
- New tab in the create/edit screen for Conservation – 27 new fields covering original and current condition, risk and handling, proposed treatment and completed treatment.
- New fields in many of the existing create/edit screens, particularly for Natural Sciences.
- The create/edit screen has been tidied up and has nice new icons.
- Choose which is the main (primary) image for objects that have multiple images
- New link on the home page to View Account Usage – this shows the usage of disk space in the account, links to a history page of usage over time
Acquisition Lot details
We are currently working on an additional screen to record details of acquisition lots. This covers some of the key acquisition information including the source, method and date. These have been separated from the main object information to allow the same acquisition information to be shared by multiple objects and to allow acquisitions to be recorded before full object cataloguing has begun. The acquisition lot screen is scheduled for the next major update in April/May.
Owaka Museum
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.
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
