Benefits of the DigitalNZ data sharing gateway (API access)

We surveyed people providing content to DigitalNZ earlier this year to find out what they thought could be developed further or worked on next by DigitalNZ. One organisation responded: “I like the idea of a map interface”.

So did we! But with just a small team, we knew that finding resource for this over all the other possible things we could be doing wasn’t going to be easy.

Then Paul Hagon, an Australian developer, got in touch. He’d come across the DigitalNZ API in his travels and built a map interface - without any extra effort required on our part.

Read the Paul Hagon interview

Coming Home – a customised search widget

The Coming Home search experience went live on 11 November 2008, to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the World War One Armistice. This was a sneak preview of the DigitalNZ tools that allow users to build their own NZ search tool, finding hidden and buried NZ content about their topic of interest.

We undertook to connect together content from a whole range of sources, and in the process learn about how to open up more of NZ's rich digital treasures.

Read the Coming Home case study

Other DigitalNZ content projects you can contribute to

In 2008, we ran the 'Coming Home' Memory Maker campaign to demonstrate what is possible when content providers ‘free up’ selected public cultural content for people to remix with permission; and used the remix editor to deliver the content to users.

Read the Memory Maker case study