Quick Facts:

• Make public collections more accessible by getting them online
• Share responsibility for preserving a community’s cultural and history
• Showcase both historical and contemporary material
• Inspire a workforce of volunteers
• Foster collaboration and celebrate diversity with community created and monitored content

Community Digital Repository

Using Kete, users can easily build a repository of historical and contemporary artifacts related to a community. Kete has similar functionality to some of the popular collaborative Internet sites like Flickr and Wikipedia. Items in Kete can be uploaded and ‘stored’ similar to Flickr, but Kete also allows the descriptive information and meta-data content available in Wikipedia.

What can I do with Kete?

Use Kete to build genealogical resources...record and promote community events... preserve historical artifacts... or celebrate cultural heritage and talent. Kete offers a multimedia experience, supporting upload and storage of:

LibLime Kete services for public libraries:

• hosting
• installation
  
• support
• training

• images
• documents
• audio recordings
• video recordings
• web links

Endless Possibilities

Who's Using Kete?

Check out Orange County Library System's 'Orlando Memory Project'-- powered by Kete and supported by LibLime.

http://dc.ocls.info/

Accessible Collections • Virtual Exhibitions • Cultural Preservation & Celebration

With Kete, your library community can...

• Make public collections more accessible by getting them online

• Provide a way for private collections to be available to the public

• Share responsibility for preserving a community’s cultural and history

• Showcase both historical and contemporary material

• Create a ‘virtual’ exhibition space for artists and craftspeople

• Extend the responsibility for archiving beyond the limited resources of the library

• Inspire a workforce of volunteers

• Foster collaboration and celebrate diversity with community created and monitored content

Kete features

• Create topics and add content

• Customize the look and  layout of content they create using Kete’s HTML editing tools

• Upload and store images, documents, audio recordings, video recordings

• Link content by adding a related web link, or link to a web link that has already been added to Kete

• Use Kete Baskets to create complex hierarchies and permission-based content adds and edits

• Add items (images, documents, audio, and video) to existing Kete topics

• Moderate Kete by flagging content considered inappropriate, duplicate, or inaccurate

History of Kete

Kete was created and first deployed in 2006 by the Horowhenua Library Trust in New  Zealand-- the library who sponsored the original version of Koha. It was developed by Katipo Communications and has been released as open source.  The blog is available online at: http://kete.net.nz