Auckland Museum Recognised As Global Leader | Scoop News

"Auckland War Memorial Museum has been recognised as an example of best practice in the World Wide Web Consortium’s most recent 'Data on the web'. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the W3C sets and maintains the standards that help make the web work.

The museum was named alongside the BBC, the World Bank, the Wellcome Trust, The European Union data portal, and both the US & UK government-data portals as an example of best practice for web standards.

David Reeves, Director of Collections & Research at Auckland War Memorial Museum, says the ever-growing collections are at the heart of Auckland Museum’s guiding principle of kaitiakitanga (guardianship). 'The Museum has a responsibility to make our collections globally accessible. Museum culture is ever changing and we are embracing a different kind of access to the museum collection, one that allows people to self-navigate, engage with and discover the wondrous landscape of our natural, social and cultural collections on their own terms,' he says."