New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Type of site
Digital library
Available inEnglish
URLnzetc.victoria.ac.nz Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
RegistrationFree
Launched2002 (2002)
Current statusActive

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC; Māori: Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) is a freely accessible online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012.[1]

At the beginning of 2012 the collection contained over 1,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day.[2] It is one of two similar collections of older New Zealand publications that have been digitised, the other being the Early New Zealand Books collection from the University of Auckland Library.[3]

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection was transferred from Victoria University of Wellington to the National Library of New Zealand on 2 July 2024. The National Library makes it available in its web archive.[4][5]

Projects and activities

The Library worked with partners within Victoria University on projects for the NZETC including:

The NZETC worked with external partners, such as:

Copyrights

When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).[7]

Methodology and technology

The NZETC is a part of the Text Encoding Initiative community of practice. They encode all their textual content in TEI XML which is transformed dynamically into HTML using XSLT.[8] Authority files are maintained for works, people, places, organisations and, unusually, ships.[9] Topic Maps are used for the main website structure.

References

  1. ^ "The NZETC has a new look". The Blog of the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Victoria University of Wellington. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ About NZETC on the official website
  3. ^ Brown, Russell (22 October 2014). "Digital media and the internet – Information". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  4. ^ "The NZETC is now hosted by the National Library of New Zealand". Victoria University of Wellington. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  5. ^ "New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC)". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  6. ^ "About the NZETC projects". Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  7. ^ "About copyrights". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz.
  8. ^ "Technology". NZETC. 2005-05-05. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  9. ^ "About the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 10 June 2019.