SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum
NDF KAURI PARTNER
Tāmaki Paenga Hira is Auckland’s War Memorial Museum, home to an ongoing remembrance of New Zealand’s service personnel. The Museum is also New Zealand’s oldest research institution, actively contributing to societal and environmental understanding, with an international benchmark-setting focus on indigenous knowledge.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
NDF KAURI PARTNER
Te Papa is New Zealand's national museum, renowned for being bicultural, scholarly, innovative, and fun. Our success is built on our relationships with and our ability to represent our community.
Te Papa’s Collections Online and wider collections outreach mahi enables visibility, reach and reuse of our collections. View our collections online.
Our sector outreach team National Services Te Paerangi supports care of collections held by museums, galleries and iwi. Find out how we can help you here.
Our national collection sharing platform, Kōtuia ngā Kete, connects collections and taonga across Aotearoa with people, places and stories, with more than 1.4 million collection items shared to date. Visit Kōtuia.
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | National Library of New Zealand
NDF KAURI PARTNER
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa holds, collects protects and makes accessible the collective memory of the nation, for the people of Aotearoa and the Pacific. It's our job to collect, connect, and co-create knowledge to power New Zealand.
At our heart are the Alexander Turnbull collections, that includes Robert Louis Stevenson’s tanoa bowl, an art collection of over 100,000 watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, oil paintings and prints, a collection of 29,000 rare books, a cartoon archive that includes the entire comic works of Murray Ball and an archive of New Zealand music that holds all of Flying Nun’s master tapes.
We work with schools across the country, provide network access to communities in 40+ council libraries, support a number of online services including digitalnz.org and PapersPast, which has 93 million articles.
We’re currently digitising all books printed in te reo Māori from 1815 through to 1900, as well as over 400,000 audio-visual items as part of the Utaina project and our public engagement team cares for He Tohu, delivers public programmes and manages a conference centre.
Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage
NDF KAURI PARTNER
We lead government work in the arts, heritage, broadcasting and sports sectors providing advice on legislation, policy, and sector development to our Ministers.
Our websites include Te Ara – the Encylopedia of New Zealand, Te Tai Whakaea Treaty Settlement Stories and NZHistory. We work with national cultural agencies such as NZ On Air, Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission and Te Papa Tongarewa. We administer their funding, monitor their activities and support appointees to their boards. We administer key cultural and heritage legislation, including the Flags, Emblems and Names Protection Act and the Protected Objects Act 1975 (to protect taonga tūturu).
Auckland Council Libraries | Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau
NDF KAURI PARTNER
Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council Libraries is the largest public library system in Australasia, serving a third of New Zealand’s population with freely available public library collections and services, online and in-person.
A strong commitment to supporting and improving access and participation for all the communities in Tāmaki Makaurau is at the heart of driving inclusive, innovative, and customer-centred digital services.
Research and Heritage services include collections of regional, national and international significance. The ongoing digitisation of rare and unique resources, including photographs, manuscripts, maps, street name indices, passenger lists, oral histories and rare books, is increasing access to these resources through Kura Heritage Collections Online.
Goethe-Institut New Zealand
NDF25 SUPPORTER
Goethe-Institut have kindly supported NDF to bring keynote speaker Cade Diehm over from Germany
As a cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Goethe-Institut promotes cultural exchange, education and societal discourse in an international context, and supports the teaching and learning of the German language. The Goethe-Institut New Zealand, based in Wellington, offers German language classes in Wellington, Auckland, and online. It organises cultural events across the country and collaborates with institutions to foster cultural exchange between Germany and Aotearoa New Zealand.
REANNZ
NDF25 BRONZE SPONSOR - COFFEE CART
The Research Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) is a crown-owned membership organisation. REANNZ operates and supports a specialist digital network engineered to meet the unique demands of Aotearoa's research and education sector. As of 1 July this year, REANNZ will also provide specialised high-performance compute resources and analytics to researchers working on large-scale, highly complex projects.
Wellington Museum
NDF25 WORKSHOP VENUE PROVIDER
Coherent Digital
NDF25 VENDOR SPONSOR
Coherent Digital uncover critical content overlooked by traditional publishers and make it accessible, enriched, and useful. We specialize in finding and preserving endangered materials—grey literature, primary sources, voices from the Global South—and making them accessible. We index documents, datasets, podcasts, license blogs, videos, and other materials in danger of disappearing. We use hashtags and editorial curation to identify content of lasting value and then preserve it. We target at risk materials wherever it may exist.
Hundreds of new reports are added every hour, creating a repository of vulnerable material and driving use of these valuable resources.
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
NDF25 VENDOR SPONSOR
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand is the New Zealand affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. As an independent, not-for-profit organisation and registered charity, we support our members, the broader editing community, and partner organisations to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wikimedia Foundation projects through events, training and partnerships.
We can provide funding to support people and organisations to improve and increase contributions to Wikipedia, build engagement with the Wikimedia movement, and ultimately increase our editor base in size and diversity, so we can tell more of Aotearoa New Zealand's stories. We're open to all kinds of applications and ideas.
STQRY
NDF25 VENDOR SPONSOR
STQRY provides world class digital solutions for destinations with stories to share. Using the no-code STQRY app builder, you can choose from a range of amazing features to create location-based tours, virtual tours, mobile and web apps, audio guides, games, digital labels and kiosks, and online collections to allow your visitors to engage deeper, explore further, and discover more.
Vernon Systems
NDF25 VENDOR SPONSOR
Vernon Systems has over 35 years’ experience in creating software for the heritage sector. Our systems are used around the world to catalogue, manage and publish information about collections.
Vernon CMS covers all collection activities, including acquisitions, loans, conservation, and rights management. Multi-user access can be controlled through the security and data auditing features, making it particularly suited for organisations with a collection management team. eHive is our simple to use web-based cataloguing and public access system.
Both systems support contributing to Digital NZ and Trove. We also provide helpful support, training, and data conversion services.
NZMS
NDF25 VENDOR SPONSOR
NZMS has over 30 years of experience digitising cultural heritage collections, and we understand the immeasurable value archives can offer communities. Our team are committed to the preservation of Aotearoa’s taonga, and we offer a wide range of services including digitisation, consultancy, microfilm, equipment, and printing. We have branches in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, and Ōtautahi Christchurch which allow us to assist clients right across the country.
As the sole New Zealand resellers of Recollect, a cloud-based collection management and community engagement platform, we provide our clients with a complete end-to-end solution, ensuring collections are accessible, managed, and protected for future generations.
CURIO
NDF25 SPONSOR
Curio can’t make it to NDF25, but are sponsoring us all the same. Check out their website!
Curio Publisher is software that lets you make your own interactive displays.
It was created so that interactives in galleries could be cheaper, and way more agile. And importantly, so you can do it yourself. You don't need any specialist skills; you just need a story to tell. We support you where you need it and share our decades of experience in museum story-telling to help your interactive be fabulous!
Curio was born at Te Papa and its now in use around the globe.
BARON HASSELHOF
NDF25 CHOCOLATE PROVIDER
Baron Hasselhof are very kindly gifting us a chocolate tasting at NDF Connect!
Check out their website, visit a local stockist, or explore their Chocolate Emporium in Wellington!