Website Projects
Te Ara, the award-winning online encyclopedia of New Zealand, will be a comprehensive guide to this country's natural environment, history, culture and development. The first of three themes are now online.. A 'Places' section currently features nine entries on regions of New Zealand (of the 22 planned). Also the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand has been digitised and made available through Te Ara. This site run by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Check their website: www.teara.govt.nz
Your first port of call for information about New Zealand history. Includes a wide range of featured topics, a calendar of events, resources for teachers and hundreds of selected, annotated links.
Check their website: www.nzhistory.net.nz
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography contains the life stories of over 3000 New Zealanders. It includes images and sound files and a general history section, Our Land Our People.This site run by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Check the website: www.dnzb.govt.nz
The first stage of the Cultural Portal, due to go live mid-2006, will be to develop, an events-based website on cultural events of national, regional and local interest.