The failure of the Government’s
digital archive programme is putting at risk a cornerstone
project that is part of centenary commemorations of New
Zealand’s involvement in World War One, Labour’s
Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Spokesperson Grant
Robertson says.
“In December it was revealed the
Government’s flagship $12 million digital archive
programme had failed and was to be canned.
“One of the
results of this is that a project to make the diaries,
personnel and other records of New Zealand World War One
veterans searchable online by the time the commemorations
start is in jeopardy.
“A new tool to ‘ingest’ the
data was to be developed as part of the digital archive
programme. That is now not happening, and I have been told
the existing tool could take up to four years to make the
records searchable.
“The searchable records have been
described as the ‘cornerstone’ of a number of the
centenary projects, and were announced by the Minister with
great fanfare last August.
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