Sue Sutherland
No written paper accompanies it because need to read the strategy itself.

It’s a whole of government / whole of country strategy. Genesis in Digital Strategy 2005 with three Cs – connection, content, confidence. NatLib given task of developing digital content strategy. Received 90 submissions inuding composite submissions so huge amount of info to absorb.Won’t be a strategy for five years as everything changing. Virtual strategy so will be updated/modified as things cchange.

Four influencing factors

• public digital space – formal/informal, public/rivate
• high-speed broadband
• digital convergence
• content on demand – ease of use and easy of discovery – if not, won’t be used – how do we ensure our content is visible?

Five element framework

• creating and protecting digital content

  • need to think about access and protection directly when it’s being created – tension between control of rights and availability of information
  • responses include creative commons for NZ – building iCT skills and knowledge individually, not just the techies. – participate in debate on cultural content

• accessible and discoverable content

  • challenge to optimise content for search (standards etc) and others
  • new initiatives: te reo maori and pacific languages metadata project (between NatLib, Te Papa, Archives NZ to develop metadata standard); digital NZ; research NZ (funded TEC and unis fudning institutional repositories)
  • responses include: digisation, adoption of interoperable standards, indexes online, repositories, accessibility on other devices eg cellphones

• sharing and using content

  • new initiatives – stats NZ to get data online and accessible; national heritage; people’s Network;
  • responses: unlock public content, free internet access, web 2.0 strategies

• managing and preserving

  • digital archives preservation, documenting creative and performing arts project

• digital content is understood

  • world internet project – international study out of AUT to get data on impact of internet on everyday lives
  • responses – read, read, think!