The title of this recording is "Introduction to Pride NZ". It is described as: Founder of Pride NZ, Gareth Watkins, introduces the Pride NZ collection and describes its deposit with the National Library of New Zealand. It was recorded in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand on the 9th July 2023. Gareth Watkins is presenting.  Their name is spelt correctly but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 5 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the proceedings. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: Founder of Pride NZ, Gareth Watkins, introduces the Pride NZ collection and describes its deposit with the National Library of New Zealand. The content in the recording covers the decades 1940s through to the 1990s. A brief summary of the recording is: The abstract presents an overview of a recording titled "Introduction to Pride NZ," made by Pride NZ founder Gareth Watkins, in which Watkins discusses the creation, mission, and significance of the Pride NZ collection. Pride NZ, which started in 2009, is a Wellington-based community website that is privately funded and features over 900 audio recordings from New Zealand's LGBTI+ Rainbow communities. The collection includes personal stories and community events, capturing memories that span from contemporary times back to personal accounts from the 1940s and 1950s. Watkins emphasizes the indispensable support received from the community, noting that the efforts of numerous individuals sharing their stories and event organizers permitting the use of their recordings have been critical to the project's success. The three objectives of Pride NZ are highlighted: celebrating the lives and stories of the Rainbow communities, enabling immediate access to content without embargoes, and acknowledging the need for a responsible strategy to preserve these important voices for posterity. Acknowledging the limitations in terms of people, infrastructure, and finances needed to sustain an archive indefinitely, Watkins outlines Pride NZ's approach to ensure the collection's preservation. This includes depositing digital snapshots with the National Library of New Zealand in annual harvests since 2011 and with the Internet Archive starting around the same time. Pride NZ has also taken steps to enhance the archive by adding high-resolution audio files and computer-generated transcriptions to improve accessibility and discoverability. In a pivotal event, the National Library of New Zealand acquired the Pride NZ collection in September 2022, which included an extensive array of master recordings and related materials. Watkins notes that accruals to the collection are ongoing, with new recordings regularly added. Furthermore, Pride NZ has released datasets under a Creative Commons license, enabling the public to access detailed metadata and geo-referenced information regarding Rainbow community locations. The National Library of New Zealand, described by Watkins as having the most robust digital infrastructure for managing cultural collections, serves as the primary repository for the long-term safeguarding of the collection. It has dedicated resources to manage the files indefinitely and a professional team tasked with describing the collection at the item level, furthering discoverability. An important aspect of this partnership is the library’s dedication to maintaining the collection's ethos of open access, as was the original intent of Pride NZ and its contributors. The library's efforts include utilizing specialized resources like the Homosaurus, an international thesaurus of terms related to Rainbow communities, to ensure respectful and accurate representation of the collection's content. Watkins expresses the importance of housing the archive in an institution that respects and gives voice to the diversity represented within the recordings. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  Kia ora koutou. My name's Gareth Watkins, the founder of PrideNZ. com. Pride NZ is a privately funded community website based in Wellington, New Zealand. The website was launched in 2009 and now contains over 900 audio recordings of interviews and local community events, showcasing the stories and opinions of New Zealand's LGBTI+ Rainbow communities. While the earliest recordings [00:00:30] date back to the 1990s, some of the content goes back even further, with some interviewees remembering growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. Pride NZ wouldn't exist without community support. There have been hundreds of interviewees from the community telling their own stories, as well as event organisers allowing their events to be recorded and shared. The website has three aims. [00:01:00] The Pride NZ collection is not only seen as a treasure today, but will also become a touchstone for generations to come. It's going to allow for people to hear who we were, how we spoke, what our dreams and our aspirations were. Pride NZ is about open, immediate dissemination of content. We don't [00:01:30] embargo or limit access to material. Pride NZ has never seen itself as a permanent forever, archive. We simply don't have the people or digital infrastructure or finance to do this. So as the years have gone by with more and more significant content being recorded, the responsibility of preserving these voices has weighed heavily. [00:02:00] Pride NZ's approach to archiving has been to make sure that the collection is in multiple locations both internationally and in New Zealand. Since 2011, the National Library of New Zealand has been collecting a digital snapshot of Pride NZ in its annual harvest of New Zealand websites. And around the same time, we began sending Pride NZ to the Internet Archive for snapshotting. [00:02:30] In 2019, to make sure high resolution versions of the audio were being archived, we added high quality MP3s to the website. And then a year later, to increase discoverability, we added computer generated transcriptions of the audio. In 2021, the Library of Congress took a snapshot of the website, and this then prompted a discussion with the National Library of New Zealand about depositing the master recordings. And [00:03:00] then in September 2022, the National Library acquired the Pride NZ collection, which was made up of 818 master recordings and 20 folders of related ephemera. So things like flyers, postcards, and programme notes. Accruals to the collection are continuing, with around five new recordings being deposited every month. The National Library deposit also prompted Pride NZ to develop and release a number of datasets [00:03:30] under a Creative Commons license. Now anyone can download detailed metadata about the collection, along with a dataset of geo-referenced locations relating to Rainbow communities. While it's beneficial having the audio in multiple institutions, there are real significant benefits in having the National Library of New Zealand as the primary long-term repository. The National Library has the most robust infrastructure for managing cultural digital collections in New [00:04:00] Zealand. It has a dedicated team committed to managing the files in perpetuity. Through an explicit wording in the deposit agreement and an ongoing face-to-face relationship with Pride NZ, the library understands and is committed to upholding the original intent of the website and participants, that is, open, free access to the content. The Arrangement and Description team at the National Library have professionally described the collection at item level, allowing for greater [00:04:30] discoverability and linking to other collections. They're also in the process of implementing the Homosaurus, an international thesaurus of terms relating to Rainbow communities. It was really important for Pride NZ to have the collection in an institution that cared equally for all of the diverse voices and opinions expressed in the recordings. And finally, Pride NZ believes it's important for heritage institutions, particularly heritage institutions [00:05:00] funded by the State to represent the diversity of experiences and voices in the country. Having the Pride NZ collection preserved by the National Library of New Zealand shows a tangible commitment from the State to honour the experiences of Rainbow communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. The tags are seperated by a semi-colon: 1940s ; 1950s ; 1990s ; Aotearoa New Zealand ; Events ; Gareth Watkins ; Homosaurus ; Internet Archive ; Library of Congress ; National Library of New Zealand ; People ; Wellington ; access ; benefits ; community ; community support ; diversity ; ephemera ; growing up ; heritage ; honour ; internet ; library ; metadata ; other ; pridenz. com ; programme ; rainbow ; support ; thesaurus ; time ; website. The original recording can be heard at this website https://www.pridenz.com/introduction_to_pride_nz.html. The master recording is also archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.  For more details visit their website https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.1107359. Gareth Watkins also features audibly in the following recordings: "Gareth Watkins - Rainbow Touchstones", "Rainbow Pride Community Honours (2015) - Part 3", "Emma Kelly and Gareth Watkins - POPCAANZ presentation", "Group Programme (March 2016)- Pride Audio Collective", "Leaving a Legacy", "Library of Congress archives PrideNZ.com", "Our Stonewall", "Resonance walk tour", "Turquoise walk tour - Wellington, New Zealand", "Yellow walk tour - Wellington, New Zealand", "Violet walk tour - Wellington, New Zealand", "Gareth Watkins and Roger Smith - Chrissy Witoko and Carmen Rupe memorial seats", "Gareth Watkins on Queer Radio Brisbane", "The beginnings of PrideNZ.com", "Chosen Family Night panel", "Tour of Out in the City 2024", "Gareth Watkins on PrideNZ and Artificial Intelligence", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2019 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2020 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2021 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2022 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2024 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2023 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2017" and "Conversations - Coast Access Radio". Please note that this document may contain errors or omissions - you should always refer back to the original recording to confirm content.