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Using digital content Digital content is most effective when: DigitalNZ. Papers Past. Galleries. Skip to main content You are here Home » Multimedia » Galleries » Primary Sources galleries Join the conversation: Sign up or Log on Primary Sources galleries These galleries of primary sources cover a wide range of topics that invite exploration and browsing, adding to our understanding of New Zealand's past and present. Galleries Primary SourcesSchool libraries What's new EPIC for 2014 Gather Workshops - Building with jQuery Gather workshops: Building the Web Online First World War resource guide Blogs Create readers 11 April 2014 Bomb Girls by Jacky Hyams ‘They didn’t fire the bullets, but they filled them up with explosives’.
Read more Libraries and Learning 09 April 2014 Rethink, Recreate, Redefine Reflections on the Orewa BYOD Conference of 2014. Read more Back to Top. Primary sources - what are they? People leave clues about their lives in many forms, including letters, photos, even emails. These items are created as people experience events, and record what they saw, heard and felt. They are called primary sources. Primary sources are the raw material of history. They are original, firsthand and often unedited and are created continually. Primary sources can be digital like a blog post, tweet or a Facebook profile. A primary source is a record which has been: recorded after (or as response too) an event ora memoir of a person who was at the event orcreated by witnesses who experienced or viewed the event.
Primary sources can be in many formats including: letter, diary, newspaper, document, (eg: poster)photograph (including digital), video recordingmanuscript, journals, speeches, interviews, emaildocuments produced by government agenciesaudio recordings, research dataphysical artefacts, such as paintings, clothes, tools and buildings. Primary sources can be published or unpublished.