This paper deals with a subset of indigenous knowledge systems called ethnobotanical knowledge. It reports some creative ways in which documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge can be carried out without losing community ownership over intellectual property rights. It also presents the general findings of the documentation, current and future uses of […]
2005 • documenting • ethnobotany • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual propertyBoundaries and accountabilities in computer-assisted ethnobotany
Designing software alongside ethnobotanists, and Indigenous owners and practitioners of traditional knowledge brings to light a range of issues which expose some of the assumptions underlying both western ethnobotany, and software design. Collaborating over the development of software to facilitate the use of digital objects in knowledge work, issues of […]
2008 • collaboration • design • ethnobotany • knowledge tradition • software