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Building a Web Curator Tool for The National Library of New Zealand
| More and more of New Zealand’s documentary heritage is only available online. Users find this content valuable and convenient, but its impermanence, lack of clear ownership, and dynamic nature pose significant challenges to any for collecting professional or researcher attempting to acquire it.
To solve these problems, The National library of New Zealand and The British Library initiated a project to design and build a Web Curator Tool that supports the selection, harvesting and quality assessment of online material by collaborating users in a library environment. The Web Curator Tool enables selective web harvesting, where a selector identifies parts of or whole websites for harvest, usually in relation to a focused subject area, or a significant event or theme. This is a high-quality, crafted approach to harvesting web content.
The tool supports a workflow comprising a series of specialised tasks: selecting an online resource; seeking permission to harvest it and make it publicly accessible; describing it; determining its scope and boundaries; scheduling a web harvest or a series of web harvests; performing the harvests; performing quality review and endorsing or rejecting the harvested material; and depositing endorsed material in a digital repository or archive. In the case of the National Library of New Zealand, the web content once harvested with the Web Curator Tool, will be deposited and archived in the National Digital Heritage Archive. |
| Series Title: |
LIANZA Conference 2006 Papers |
| Author: |
Gordon Paynter |
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