Topic: User Manual
Topic type:
A guide to how to use different parts of Kete.
Introduction
Kete Taranaki Reo is a community built digital library of language, history and traditions of Taranaki Māori of Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
The Site is about managing two distinct types of content or information. Firstly, the site facilitates the sharing of permitted content and therefore we have adopted the Creative Commons Licence to govern how material is used on the Kete site. You should read the Kete Terms and Conditions for further detail. Further, the Site is also about contributing groups, such as iwi, hapū and whānau protecting and managing their restricted information for their communities. To assist this, separate, 'locked' kete or sections are created that permit access to, and management of information by members of a group only.
The Kete library contains items:
- Images
- Audio recordings
- Video recordings
- Documents
- URLs of web resources
Items are uploaded to Kete by anybody with an internet connection, and in any common file format.
The digital library also contains:
- Topics (articles on a subject, person, place, event or thing)
- Discussion or comments
Topics are like collaboratively written encyclopedia articles. They are written online by anyone at all, and can be edited by other Kete users. Wikipedia is a good example of collaboratively written material.
All Topics and Items can be 'flagged' to the attention of the Kete administrators if, you think it contains inappropriate material.
There are many ways to use Kete Taranaki Reo:
- Search or browse the collection
- Register for RSS feeds of changes to items or topics
- Comment and discuss items and topics
- Tag existing items and topics with keyword search terms
- Edit existing items and topics
- Link existing items and topics together
- Link existing topics together
- Add new items of any format
- Write new topics or articles on any subject you like
There is no need to register if you just want to look at the collection, but if you want to participate you will need to register. This is a very simple procedure and we collect only the bare minimum information about you. Our Privacy Policy explains why we collect what we do.
Before you get started you should also read our House Rules.
Note:
Kete is being developed very rapidly; more rapidly than this manual, so keep coming back!
