THE NEW-ZEALAND-DIGITAL-LIBRARY - COLLECTIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The New Zealand Digital Library project aims to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available for others to use to create Their own collections. We have built a large number of d emonstration collections. Because our policy is to avoid manual proces sing of material, full-text indexing and - to a lesser degree - automa tically created browsing structures provide the primary point of acces s to the material. As well as conventional textual collections, we are experimenting with collections of musical and audio material. This ar ticle describes the library structure and present and planned collecti ons, and summarises our experiences in the project.