Behind the scenes

Behind the scenes 

Ngāti Porou intern Lady Pokai

March 16, 2020March 11, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1 Comment intern, Lady Pokai, Ngāti Porou

Ko Hikurangi te maunga Ko Waiapu te awa Ko Tu Au Au te tipuna whare Ko Horouta te waka Ko

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Archive Fives – Digital Workflow

March 10, 2020March 11, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Adam Sondej, Archive Fives, Digital Workflow, Oscar Halberg

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives is a

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Kura visit for a great day

March 3, 2020February 17, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments kura kaupapa Māori, Kura kaupapa Māori o Te Rito, Ngā Wai e Rua, Otaki, Te Rito

Ngā Taonga and a number of fellow heritage organisations were pleased recently to host a visit from an Ōtaki kura

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Software and tear: the challenge of archiving born-digital content

February 25, 2020February 26, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments born-digital, digital collecting, Tom Ackroyd

A computer hard drive arrives on Tom Ackroyd’s desk. Ackroyd, the Digital Collection Team Leader at Ngā Taonga, deals with

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Archive Fives – Video

February 18, 2020March 2, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alex Wright, Archive Fives, Harry Papadopoulos, Todd Barker, video

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives is a

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Archive Fives – Film

January 16, 2020February 27, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Archive Fives, film, Gareth Evans, Kurt Otzen, Richard Falkner

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives

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Te Kāmata Kura

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Bernard Makoare, manea stone, Te Kāmata Kura, touch stone

Nō te te ata o te 10 o Whiringa-ā-nuku 2019 ka mau i a Ngā Taonga tētahi kōhatu mauri nā

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Behind the scenes Sound 

Archive Fives – Sound

December 6, 2019December 20, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Archive Fives, Grant McBride, huia, Julian Millar, Sandy Ditchburn, sound

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives

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Archive Fives – Documentation

November 3, 2019January 24, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Archive Fives, Charlotte Thompson Darling, documentation, Tracy White

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives

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Behind the scenes Film 

Film archaeology

August 30, 2019November 6, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 8mm, amateur film, colour film, film, film identification, Jo Dixon-Didier

I’m sitting at a film winding bench with Jo Dixon-Didier, a Ngā Taonga Collection Developer who specialises in film. We’re

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