The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC; mi, Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) is a freely accessible online archive of

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and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the

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Library. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012. The Library has an ongoing programme of digitisation and feature additions to the current holdings within the NZETC. In the beginning of 2012 the collection contained over 1,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day.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

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collection from the

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Library.

Projects and activities

The Library works 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) * ''

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architecture and design magazine from the late 1940s and early 1950s The NZETC has previously worked with external partners, such as: * Digitisation and e-publishing of the Transactions and Proceedings of the

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1868–1961 (in cooperation with the National Library of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library) * '' Learning Media'' (in cooperation with the

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) * '' La Trobe Journal'' (in cooperation with the Australian State Library of Victoria)

Copyrights

When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons

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License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).

Methodology and technology

The NZETC is a part of the

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community of practice. They encode all their textual content in TEI

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which is transformed dynamically into

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using XSLT.

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s are maintained for works, people, places, organisations and, unusually, ships.

Topic Maps A topic map is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. Topic maps were originally developed in the late 1990s as a way to represent back-of-the-book index structures ...

are used for the main website structure.

References

External links

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NZETC Blog

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868–1961
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