Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group

ANZDEG 2008: 25-26 November 2008

When: Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 November 2008
Where: Cotton Lecture Theatre 118 (CO118) [Map]
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Cost: $75 for two days or $50 for one day. Lunch and refreshments provided. All welcome.
No advance registration required, but please RSVP if possible for numbers and food preferences.
Host: New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Hotels: Mercure Hotel, Comfort Hotel and Hotel Novotel are within walking distance of the venue.
More hotels close to the University (Kelburn) are listed on Google.
After: The New Zealand National Digital Forum is taking place in Auckland on the 27th and 28th November 2008.

9:30 am: Registration
10:00 am: The Dictionary of Sydney Project Concept Browser
Steven Haynes, Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney
10:30 am: Topic Maps and Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Jamie Norrish & Stuart Yeates, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
11:00 am: Morning tea
11:30 am: ‘Te Ara & Web 2.0’ things: Ways that ‘Encyclopedias’ can respond to the desire for community engagement and input while retaining their authoritative status.
Ross Sommerville, Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Noon: Is the Wikipedia model a threat to Google?
Alastair Smith, Victoria University of Wellington
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: DigitalNZ Wave I Implementation Project
Fiona Rigby & Andy Neale, National Library of New Zealand
2:00 pm: Historical events, maps and timelines in a Web 2.0 environment
Ian Johnson, Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney
2:30 pm: Afternoon tea
3:00 pm: WWI Embarkation Rolls: Name matching with Auckland War Memorial Museum
Jason Darwin, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
3:30 pm: Tools in use at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC)
Max Sullivan & Edmund King, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
4:15 pm: Open discussion
Evening: Conference dinner

9:00 am: Australian Women's Archives Project
Joanne Evans, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne
9:30 am: Entity Authority Tool Set
Jamie Norrish, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
10:00 am: Recent initiatives
Ross Coleman, Sydney eScholarship, University of Sydney
10:30 am: Digital libraries, digital archives and digital encyclopaedias
Stuart Yeates, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
11:00 am: Morning tea
11:30 am: An accelerated introduction to Heurist and the Heurist Application Programming Interface (HAPI)
Steven Haynes and Ian Johnson, Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney
Noon: Representing geo-temporal uncertainty: Amarna (c. 1350 BC) - a case study using Heurist
Cathy Campbell, Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Open discussion, tutorials and demonstrations