NZ Museums http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/and KRIS (Kiwi Research Information Service) http://nzresearch.org.nz/both show lots of promise. KRIS already has several thousand academic works available (looks like you have to register to access more than just the abstracts) while NZ Museums has just been set up by the National Museum in conjunction with NZLive and is still awaiting what may be a huge amount of content from the various museums large and small around the country. NZ museums has a blog attached from which here is one entry...
29 March 2009
By Anna Butterfield, NZLive
I’m about to race out the door to a workshop with Shelley Bernstein. This is a name that every New Zealand cultural organisation should be aware of. Shelley’s work at the Brooklyn Museum is revolutionising the way museums interact with their audiences.
Yesterday, about 400 people were treated to a talk at the National Library. Shelley went through her key points for engaging and retaining audiences with emerging technologies such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter.
Matapihi is a rich resource (I have used it a few times). It is a quite formal and static tool that lacks the dynamism and 'two way traffic' character of some of the Web 2.0 sites like NZMuseums and KRIS. Matapihi is like viewing the world through a pin-hole camera. What would help it to deliver on it's potential are gadgets that constantly update and refresh it's content, RSS feeds that pull in various news and content from diverse sources and utilities like a blog for feedback and ideas from users and possibly mashups to allow creativity and flexibility of use by both users and hosts.
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