The NZETC provides expertise and services to other institutions, including commercial organisations, in XML, document conversion and repurposing, digitisation, Open Source e-publishing, metadata, digital imaging, and digitisation project development and management.

The income earned from commercial projects is used to support research and digitisation.

Digitisation, project-management and consultancy services

• Full imaging services
• Conversion from print to XML or other desired formats
• Expertise across a range of metadata standards and protocols, including TEI, EAD, Dublin Core, MADS , OAI-PMH , MARC
• Migration between metadata standards, dynamic creation of multiple metadata records
• Expertise in XML and XSLT (stylesheets for manipulating and delivering XML)
• Expertise in configuring proven open source XML-based platforms for managing and delivering digital content online, features can include:
  • Versioning control repository
  • Multiple format delivery, accessible formats for visually impaired community
  • dynamic thumbnail generation
  • full text searching
  • image galleries and searching
  • topic mapping of resources (semantic web)

XML-based publishing solutions

• DocBook and TEI -based systems
• Maintenance of technical manuals and large catalogues
• Adding value to existing content with structured tagging
• Schema and taxonomy development
• XML for content exchange
• Migration between schemas
• Content management
• Stylesheet ( CSS / XSLT / XSL-FO ) development for templating and transformation
• Single-source multi-channel publishing - Automated web publishing; Systems/database integration