The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) is a unit of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. The NZETC has an ongoing programme of digitisation and feature additions to the current holdings. In the beginning of 2009 the collection contained over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) and received over 10,000 visits each day.[1]
Apart from providing texts and materials itself, NZETC also works on creating a community skilled in the use and creation of digital materials, through training and projects and works together with other organisations.[2]
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The NZETC works with partners within Victoria University on different projects, like
The NZETC has also projects with external partners, like:
When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).[4]
The NZETC is a part of the Text Encoding Initiative community of practice. They encoding all their textual content in TEI XML which is transformed dynamically into HTML using XSL.[5] Authority files are maintained for works, people, places and, unusually, ships.[6] Topic Maps are used for the main website structure.