Preservation
Stories about the preservation and archiving of the audiovisual taonga we hold.
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24 August 2023
A look at the technical elements of a major preservation project.
13 July 2023
A look at the human element of a major preservation project.
26 August 2022
Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho is a five-part online series about the practice of archiving taonga Māori.
20 July 2021
We all have a role to play in keeping this language alive through discovery and adoption.
30 March 2021
Each year the nitrate film collection of Ngā Taonga is ‘wound through’ as an essential part of its safe keeping.
9 June 2020
Moving out of their long-term premises proved to both a logistical and emotional challenge for Ngā Taonga staff – and that’s without including the COVID-19 pandemic.
1 June 2020
Our Kaupapa Māori Gareth Seymour was the recipient of the 2019 Paul Reynolds 'No Numpties' Grant.
19 May 2020
What do you do when you’re working on a special archiving project in another country and a pandemic hits?
27 February 2020
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving?
3 November 2019
Archive Fives is a series that looks at the five Preservation Services teams that are part of Collection Services at Ngā Taonga.
23 October 2019
Working in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector (or GLAM as it is known), it is really special when unexpected links are formed.
1 May 2019
Boxes and boxes and boxes. Archives collect a huge amount of material – it’s all part of caring for the nation’s audiovisual memories.
8 April 2019
Adam Sondej is a big fan of videotape. Most of his career has involved working with the stuff and he can rattle off all sorts of details about it.
5 December 2016
Learn about New Zealand's earliest surviving piece of film and our work to restore it.
11 November 2016
Charlie Chilcott's unique record of projectionists, projectors and cinemas.
27 October 2016
Ngā Taonga archivists have unravelled the mystery of New Zealand’s second-oldest surviving film.
25 May 2016
Restored footage of the Bastion Point occupation and eviction is returned to the people and place it was filmed.
16 May 2016
Fixtures such as staples, wiro bindings, bull clips, pins, and metal clasps can – over many years – damage archival documents by creating indents, tears and rust residue.
17 December 2014
This year, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision became caretaker of a powerful piece of film restoration technology.
1 July 2014
We are preserving a unique series of around 300 discs of music by New Zealand composers and early broadcasts by the National Orchestra.
28 November 2013
A story of ethics and values with modern day archivists.
24 October 2013
It begins in 1975 in Germany. I was in my late teens when I set out to upgrade my film hobby from S8 film to 16mm.
