This is an exciting time for digitizing indigenous history. Leading digital humanists are engaging tribal communities in the creation of powerful online archives. The groundbreaking Mukurtu content management system (CMS), for example, is built on the very premise of indigenous curation or co-curation; it lets indigenous people control exactly what […]
2014 • archive • curation • digital collections • indigenous • indigenous communities • language | preservation • Mukurtu • postcolonial • revitalizationDigital Repatriation and Reciprocal Curation: the Ethics of Circulating Native Knowledge in the Plateau Region
Presented by Kim Christen at The University of Arizona’s Knowledge River Program and at the Arizona Archives Summit, January 2011. About Kim Christen From her website: “I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital […]
2011 • cultural protocols • curation • database • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual property • Plateau Peoples • repatriationFOSS Digital Curation, Asset Management & Community Archiving Systems
A list of over 25 free and open source digital curation, asset management & community archiving systems that may be of interest to communities (Indigenous or not) seeking to sustain and share words, images, videos, sounds, collections, etc. These tools are free in that you can download the source files […]
archive • asset management • community memory • curation • digital tools • open sourceDigitising and handling Indigenous cultural resources in libraries, archives and museums
Abstract Indigenous cultural resources expose long memory trails which extend from understandings of origins to engagement with contemporary challenges. The tangible traces of aeons old intangible experience, they include practical and ceremonial artefacts housed in museums, sites of cultural significance, testimony and stories collected in libraries, and records of experience […]
2008 • cultural heritage • cultural protocols • curation • digital collections • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intangibleDigital Cultural Communication: Enabling new media and cocreation in SouthEast Asia
Abstract Digital Cultural Communication (DCC) is a new field of research and design which seeks to build a cocreative relationship between the cultural institution and the community by using new media to produce audiencefocused cultural interactive experiences (Russo and Watkins 2005). By situating the development of cultural communities within DCC, […]
2005 • Asia • collaboration • culture • curation • digital collections • information literacy • new mediaFree & Open Source Digital Curation, Asset Management & Community Archiving Systems
Updates 12/30/11: Added Archon, Kete, and Open Exhibits. 5/12/12: Added DAITSS, DPSP, HOPPLA, and RODA. 6/8/12: Added Vannotea & Indigenous Knowledge Management Software. 5/13/13: Added ELAN. 7/5/15: Added ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, Islandora. In honor of the new year, I thought I’d offer a list of (now 29) free and open source […]
application • archive • asset management • content management system • curation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • open source