Webinar: Archives without Borders: Trove, DigitalPasifik, and DigitalNZ

The webinar explored how digital technologies are transforming the ways communities access and interact with historical archives, focusing on the online cultural heritage platforms of Trove (National Library of Australia), DigitalPasifik, and DigitalNZ (National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa). 

A key theme of the webinar was empowering communities to undertake community-driven curation of the collections. On this topic, the webinar speakers discussed platform features that enable communities to contribute their knowledge and memories to archival records, correct inaccurate information, and curate items from different collections to tell new personal stories through these archives. This process facilitates the creation of new shared histories, helping to build stronger community ownership of these collections, and foster a more inclusive and diverse understanding of the histories of Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

Thank you again to everyone who joined us and participated in the discussion on how these cultural heritage platforms are reimagining community connections to cultural heritage.