Stuart Yeates, the Lead Architect from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, Victoria University, is visiting the university to work with Paul Millar at the Humanities Computing Unit.

The NZETC aims to create a digital library of New Zealand and Pacific material and hosts an expanding online library. The standards-based collection is delivered through an Open Source framework and offers full and free access to a range of materials in multiple formats for download or online browsing. Today the NZETC collection contains over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and receives over 10,000 visits each day.

Some of the key technologies used are XML and TEI as the document mark-up standards which underpin the work of the NZETC. Other key technologies used at the NZETC include topic maps and XTM, XSLT, Apache Cocoon and Lucene.

Stuart will talk about the NZTEC, the projects they are adopting, and how this has opened up possibilities for further reuse and repurposing of the information in interesting ways.

Please register to attend this presentation.