Digital New Zealand is an initiative to “test new ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.” While Digital NZ is just getting started, today they’ve launched the Memory Maker to mark the 90th Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice ending World War One.
This interactive online video mashup uses EditorOne to let visitors create their own short videos using historic video images, still photographs, artifacts, music and audio clips. The content for the mashup video editor comes from the National Digital Forum which includes museums, historical societies, archives, and libraries from across the country. This marks the first time EditorOne has been used as way to connect together and highlight multiple collections. The full Digital New Zealand project launches in December. You can learn more and sign up for updates on the Digital NZ site.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a lot of history enthusiasts to put together short form documentaries. It is great that there is software out there for those who wouldn’t otherwise be editing video. Very empowering. I am responding to this blog post as a representative of Veeple technology, which is operating on a similar model, empowering the online video content creator to do more. I see how Digital NZ’s service would work great in combination with Veeple.com’s software and I wonder logistically how the two ideas could combine to create an even more interactive online video experience for the user. With Veeple the content creator can later upload images that serve as interactive links that can later be added ontop of the person’s video to provide additional information and portals to relevant websites.