Anzac Day 2020 special screening
With the COVID-19 pandemic and related disruptions, Anzac Day 2020 turned out quite different to previous years. In person commemorations
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A brief history of Māori cinema
With the Māoriland Film Festival having to drastically reduce its programme due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ngā Taonga wanted to
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Home schooling through the 1948 polio epidemic
Empty classrooms, parents struggling to home-school and teachers trying to work out ways to deliver feedback to students remotely… it
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Ngā Taonga staff #WorkingFromHome
Due to the Level 4 lockdown, all Ngā Taonga staff are working from home. We caught up with a few
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Repatriating memory and the Korean War
How much can a country know about itself without a record of its history? For a variety of reasons, films,
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Enjoying the Tararua Ranges
This post originally ran in Ōtaki Today in December 2019 The Ōtaki region has long been a gateway to the
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Ngāti Porou intern Lady Pokai
Ko Hikurangi te maunga Ko Waiapu te awa Ko Tu Au Au te tipuna whare Ko Horouta te waka Ko
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Archive Fives – Digital Workflow
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives is a
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Kura visit for a great day
Ngā Taonga and a number of fellow heritage organisations were pleased recently to host a visit from an Ōtaki kura
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Software and tear: the challenge of archiving born-digital content
A computer hard drive arrives on Tom Ackroyd’s desk. Ackroyd, the Digital Collection Team Leader at Ngā Taonga, deals with
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