Nicola Harwood: Maintaining momentum: keeping a collaborative digital project alive and kicking
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 2015-10-18

Day 2 of NDF 2015, 2.00pm Wednesday 14 October 2015

The Prow website, a collaborative digital project showcasing stories from the Top of the South, is seven years old. This presentation will discuss the challenges associated with keeping the site going, with continued input from partners and the community, adding new stories, and keeping it fresh.

Currently Community Engagement Librarian at Nelson Public Libraries, Nicola been working in libraries for most of her career in the UK, Australia and New Zealand – in public, University, law, and school libraries. She has been involved in a number of digital projects, from early experiments with online information literacy tutorials to more recent digitisation projects (Nelson Photo News), and has been involved with the Prow from set up to date.