[1] The website provides federated access to a broad range of earthquake-related research material, gathered by leading New Zealand cultural and educational organisations.
It was inspired by the September 11 Digital Archive project developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
[2] Content providers include UC QuakeStudies, Kete Christchurch, Ross Becker & Moira Fraser and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
It is a secure, access-controlled repository, built and hosted at the University of Canterbury,[2] with the purpose of preserving a digital record of the earthquakes and the rebuild, and to facilitate future research.
The QuakeStudies archive includes large content collections such as Fairfax Media, Environment Canterbury, Gap Filler, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, QuakeBox, urban regeneration projects and a digitised copy of The Pledge.