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QuakeStudies now available for all to use

QuakeStudies is the high-spec research repository and University of Canterbury node of UC CEISMIC (http://www.ceismic.org.nz).

It has been created to help people memorialise, understand, and learn from the Canterbury earthquakes.

The UC QuakeStudies go-live collections contain material from Fairfax Media, Environment Canterbury and the NZ Historic Places Trust. The links at the bottom of this email provide a small sampling of the range of significant material the repository already contains.

In the coming weeks and months, Quakestudies will add further content from a variety of sources and expand exponentially. Notably, we will soon be ready to present in QuakeStudies a significant research-based collection from the NCW Women's Voices project co-ordinated by Assoc. Professor Rosemary Du Plessis, stories from people interviewed at the Quakebox, and the outcomes of a range of projects supported by the CEISMIC Contestable Research Fund. The resource will also be available to promote and underpin University of Canterbury research into earthquake related risk, resilience and renewal.

Here are some samples of the content in Quakestudies from our three Go-Live partners.

Fairfax Media's rich set of newspapers, photographs and video includes:

• 'In Memoriam: Those We Lost'
• Richard Cosgrove's remarkable images of the moment the Press building began to collapse
• Aerial footage after 4 September 2010

Environment Canterbury's collections include:

• Regional Earthquake and Hazard Risk Assessment Studies
• A staff photograph collection

Material from the NZ Historic Places Trust includes:

• Heritage register records
• Archaeological reports on deconstructed buildings, including the discovery of a time capsule in a nugget factory in Ferry Road
• Six kilns beneath 550 Colombo St from the old Atlas range factory