A Community of Relations: Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes

Christen, Kimberly; Merrill, Alex; Wynne, Michael W.

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“…Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, narrate and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways (Mukurtu (a), n.d). Based at the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) at WSU in the USA, the project leads the development of the Mukurtu CMS, and more recently, support for a Hubs and Spokes model, which aims to support the continued development and use of the software (Christen, Merrill and Wynne, 2017). The main priority of the Mukurtu project is to build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust in relation to Indigenous digital cultural heritage.…”

Section: 'Mukurtu-a Safe Keeping Place' (Kimberly Christen)mentioning

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Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities

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I Indigenous peoples in Australia have been heavily documented in colonial archives and collections. The past two decades have seen significant materials from Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) institutions being returned to Indigenous communities in Australia through physical or digital repatriation of materials. The digital return of materials requires both appropriate systems for returning both the digital collections, metadata and contextual information that relates to them, and agreements, policies, and procedures for meaningfully engaging with Indigenous communities throughout the process. Importantly, the information returned needs to be accessible, readable, and usable in local community contexts based on understanding local community needs. This paper discusses priorities around engaging with Indigenous peoples to reshape and build archival information systems and access points that support community requirements for digital return and management of cultural heritage materials in local settings. The paper discusses future priorities for designing archival information systems to support Indigenous sovereignty, including data stewardship and preservation approaches. These concerns are discussed and raised as part of the research and development of the global Mukurtu Content Management System (CMS) project, including within the New South Wales (NSW) Australian Mukurtu Hub.

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“…Thom, Colombi, and Degai (2016) have worked with indigenous people in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula using Google Earth and other mapping tools to record and preserve traditional knowledge, on terms established by elders and other community members. Dozens of projects employing the Mukurtu platform have similarly based their work in local collaborations and employed the nested structures of access in the Mukurtu CMS to shield culturally sensitive information from outsiders (Christen 2012;Christen, Merrill, and Wynne 2017).…”

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Big Archaeology: Horizons and Blindspots

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Dufton

2020

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Big data have arrived in archaeology, in the form of both large-scale datasets themselves and in the analytics and approaches of data science. Aerial data collected from satellite-, airborne-and UAVmounted sensors have been particularly transformational, allowing us to capture more sites and features, over larger areas, at greater resolution, and in formerly inaccessible landscapes. However, these new means of collecting, processing, and visualizing datasets also present fresh challenges for archaeologists. What kinds of questions are these methods suited to answer, and where do they fall short? How do they articulate with the work of collecting smaller scale and lower resolution data? How are our relationships with "local" communities impacted by working at the scales of entire provinces, nation-states, and continents? This themed issue seeks to foster a conversation about how the unprecedented expansion of archaeological site detection, the globalization of archaeological data structures and databases, and the use of high-resolution aerial datasets are changing both the way archaeologists envision the past and the way we work in the present. In our introduction to the issue, presented here, we outline a series of conceptual and ethical issues posed by big data approaches in archaeology and provide an overview of how the nine essays that comprise this volume each address them.

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“…The history and the metadata management provided by Mukurtu are bound together. Mukurtu was conceived as a tool to "manage, circulate, and narrate the Warumungu Aboriginal community's digital materials using their own cultural protocols" [17]. The materials retained digitally in the original Mukurtu platform, the Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive, are culturally-sensitive objects that have been collected and archived without following Warumungu tribal protocols.…”

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“…Mukurtu is helping to fix the problematic archival practices of the National Archives that appropriated these materials from the Warumungu people. The second major installation of Mukurtu was the Plateau Peoples' CMS, which "sought to extend the alpha version of Mukurtu to incorporate existing library digital collections (with Dublin Core metadata), in a web-based platform including multiple tribes across several states who share common histories, but also unique tribal vales, languages, and collections" [17].…”

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Digital humanities projects and standards: Let’s get this conversation started!

Urberg¹

2020

ISU

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This article is in part about digital humanities projects and the metadata that supports them. It is also a call for project creators, publishers, aggregators, and professionals working on metadata and standards to start a conversation about how to incorporate digital humanities projects into the scholarly communications lifecycle in spaces where books and journal articles have dominated for decades. It begins this conversation by analyzing benefits and challenges of the metadata contributed to two projects - Preserve the Baltimore Uprising and The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon - and two platforms - Zooniverse and Mukurtu Content Management System. It proposes a couple of key pieces of metadata around which to build a standard for integrating digital humanities projects into publication.

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A Community of Relations: Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes

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Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities

Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities

Big Archaeology: Horizons and Blindspots

Digital humanities projects and standards: Let’s get this conversation started!

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