Online Cenotaph: Transcribing the Archives - Victoria Passau
Central Library, Level 2, 44 Lorne Street, CBD, Auckland
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Online Cenotaph: transcribing the archives with Victoria Passau, Auckland Museum
Online Cenotaph is a military database of Aotearoa New Zealand service personnel. Managed by Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, the database includes more than 262,000 individual records spanning the South African Wars to today. It is utilised by veterans, whānau, genealogists and researchers alike.
Join Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph & Enquiry Services Manager, in an overview of the recent project to transcribe an extensive number of archival records. This transcription project has enabled the creation of more than 15,000 new Online Cenotaph records and enrichment of tens of thousands more. In Commemoration of Anzac Day.
About the speaker
Victoria Passau has been Collection Manager, Online Cenotaph at Auckland War Memorial Museum since 2014. She is responsible for the management of Online Cenotaph as a digital product and works with Auckland Museum’s diverse content partners and collaborators. She has also developed a deep understanding of how personal memory and commemoration can enrich official histories.
Victoria also manages the Museum’s Research Library and the enquiries received by the Collections and Research Directorate. Victoria obtained a Masters of Library and Information Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.
Image: The page is from the Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers (R21346617) Archives NZ https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/item/aims-archive/R21346617
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