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database • DFID • researchNurturing Indigenous Knowledge Experts (NIKE) – Ifugaos Indigenous Knowledge Database
Our library is being developed to safeguard Ifugao’s intellectual heritage and to provide information materials to researchers, students, and teachers. The library is based at the NCIP Office-Lagawe, Ifugao. Materials may be brought out from the office with permission from the library in- charge. You may contact us to avail […]
culture | preservation • database • Ifugao • indigenous / traditional knowledgeUNESDOC database (UNESCO documents)
Knowledge Traditions of Aboriginal Australians: Questions & Answers arising in a Databasing Project
In answering some questions about the place and role of databasing in Aboriginal Australian Knowledge Traditions, the paper gives some interesting insights into the nature and workings of Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions. I consider knowledge traditions of Aboriginal Australians comparatively, by referring to a particular contemporary way of ‘doing knowledge’. The […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • database • knowledge traditionComputer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge
At a recent workshop on Aboriginal knowledge in Darwin, several women from the local Larrakia community talked about putting their elders’ knowledge onto a database. One cautious non-indigenous researcher voiced some doubts about the overenthusiastic embrace of digital technology: “Indigenous knowledge lives in country, and in doing things together in […]
2005 • aboriginal • culture | preservation • database • digital tools • elder • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Larrakia • transmissionWords, Ontologies and Aboriginal databases
This paper tells of a group of people working in the increasingly digitised context of teaching and researching Aboriginal languages and cultures in a university context, and in remote Aboriginal communities. The first phase involved the development of digital archives with CDs and a website for university teaching purposes. The […]
2004 • aboriginal • database • indigenous communities • knowledge systems • ontologies • ruralAboriginal Knowledge Traditions in Digital Environments
According to Manovich, the database and the narrative are natural enemies, each competing for the same territory of human culture. Aboriginal knowledge traditions depend upon narrative through storytelling and other shared performances. The database objectifies and commodifies distillations of such performances and absorbs them into data structures according to a […]
2005 • aboriginal • database • digital collections • knowledge management • knowledge tradition • performance • storytellingSouth Africa To Launch National Traditional Knowledge Recording System
Published on ip-watch.org 10 May 2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch While diplomats are trying to find consensus on an international instrument to protect traditional knowledge at the World Intellectual Property Organization, some countries are establishing systems to protect their traditional knowledge domestically. South Africa will be launching on 24 […]
database • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual propertyThe Ulwazi Programme
The Ulwazi Programme is an initiative of the eThekwini Municipal Library to preserve the indigenous knowledge of local communities in the greater Durban area. This innovation, developed and implemented by the Software Applications Section of the Libraries, is based on a bottom-up model through which online indigenous knowledge resources are […]
database • Durban | South Africa • education • eThekwini • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • libraries • Ulwazi ProgrammeOrganization Highlight: The Ulwazi Programme
The Ulwazi Programme is several things: a collection of technologies, social initiatives and research endeavors. On one hand, it is an online community-sourced website database and informative blog. On the other hand, Ulwazi involves programmatic aspects such as the School’s Project, a certificate project for secondary school students. A wonderful […]
database • Durban | South Africa • education • eThekwini • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Ulwazi ProgrammeIndigenous Knowledge & Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA)
Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA) was a three year 2003-2006 ARC Linkage Project to support and develop Indigenous databases that maintain and enhance the strength of local languages, cultures and environments in Northern Australia. The project was coordinated through the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems […]
2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • database • design • IKRMNA • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • representation • TAMI • YolnguIKRMNA: Making Collective Memories with Computers
This post contains abstracts and links to a selection of papers written about Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA). From their website: IKRMNA was a three year 2003-2006 ARC Linkage Project to support and develop Indigenous databases that maintain and enhance the strength of local languages, cultures […]
2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • database • design • IKRMNA • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • representation • TAMI • YolnguA Value Sensitive Design Approach to Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems
Indigenous cultures across the planet are disappearing. In 2007, Wade Davis, a Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, presented at the TED conference on the (subject of endangered cultures). He said, “When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet . . . and of those […]
2008 • database • design • endangered language • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • modernity • oral tradition • western culture