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Download AudioTe ao Māori has been given top priority in the new strategic plan for Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision out to 2030.
Strategic advisor Stephanie Lay says the national audio and visual archive houses nearly 800-thousand different historical items, and it’s currently running the largest mass digitisation process for magnetic media in the world.
She says the collection provides access not only to official histories but societal and family histories.
It has developed frameworks to work with the appropriate kaitiaki when they take in or deal with Maori content.
“We go through a whakawaatea clearance process to work with kaitiaki to gauge what they are comfortable with and what they will approve for the use of that material. We make those relationships on a ling-lasting basis because it’s important to us that the taonga Maori in our care are treated with the respect they are due. They really are taonga for the entire country and they’re unique to us as a country as well,” Ms Lay says.
The strategy also includes recognition of population change, as well as building up the technological capacity to story and manage an estimated 46 petabytes of data.
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