Topic: Launch of Coming Home
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A collaborative digital initiative by the NDF and powered by Digital New Zealand.
"In 2008 the National Digital Forum Board invited NDF Partners to participate in a content and discovery digital initiative with the theme of Coming Home Te Hokinga Mai in commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice. The response from NDF partners was fantastic with many great examples of the richness of our collections related to the theme.
Digital New Zealand, a collaborative programme led by the National Library, developed a unique application to produce a special Coming Home search widget that can be added to any website. You can use the widget to discover Coming Home content across all participating NDF partners.
All NDF partners were invited to embed the Coming Home search widget on their sites in time for Armistice Day on 11 November 2008 to promote our collaboration and showcase digital content commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice. The Digital NZ team also created a special Coming Home interactive Memory Maker that allows people to craft their own expression of what ‘Coming Home' means to them using a special video mixing tool. It is hosted on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Website and several National Digital Forum partners provided fantastic and unique pictures, sound, text and moving images for it.
Together the NDF and Digital New Zealand have shown how we can make it easier for New Zealanders to discover and interact with New Zealand's content in exciting new ways. This is a wonderful initiative and one that NDF is proud to lead and formally launch at this year's National Digital Forum."
Source: http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/downloads/NDF-2008-conference/NDF%202008%20Conference%20Handbook.pdf
