Label in Use: Te Roroa
Jun 17, 2024
Te Roroa, a Māori Iwi from the region between the Kaipara Harbour and the Hokianga Harbour in Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand, has a number of
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Maine Archives & Museums conference
Our Executive Director and Council Chair will be presenting and attending the Maine Archives and Museums annual conference on Wabanaki Homelands in Lewiston, Maine, US, on October 4. Dr. Stephany RunningHawk Johnson (Oglala Lakota Nation) and James Eric Francis, Sr. (Penobscot Nation) will present “Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Cultural Authority and Intellectual Property in Maine …
Hawai’i Network Meeting
The next Local Contexts Hawai’i Network meeting will be held October 15. For this meeting, we will plan to walk through the Local Contexts Hub website. We suggest signing up for the live or sandbox Hub site prior to your session so you can bring specific questions with you. See also the Hub guides available …
Persistent Identifiers for Projects Community Dialogue Workshop
Local Contexts team members will join an upcoming community dialogue session hosted by DataCite in partnership with Metadata Game Changers. This dialogue is designed to engage the broader Life Sciences and Astronomy communities in co-developing metadata enhancements supporting the development and use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for instruments and projects. Metadata creators and users are …
Local Contexts Hub Demonstration Session
Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!
MCN 2024
Anne M. Young, Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, will present a session, “Grounding Indigenous Rights in Redesigning Newfields’ Online Collections,” at Museum Computer Network 2024, held in Lawrence, Kansas. This in-person session will highlight how Newfields integrated the Local Contexts system into their new online …
Labels in Use
Labels in use: Waiata app
Jun 13, 2023
Whakatōhea Iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand has added some of their Traditional Knowledge Labels to waiata (traditional songs/chants) in the Whakatōhea Waiata App. The TK
Labels and Notices in Manaaki Whenua
Oct 5, 2022
Last updated April 12, 2023
The first Biocultural Labels and Notices have been applied to an open biodiversity database using the Local Contexts Hub.
Manaaki Whenua is
Labels in Use: Oriana TV
Jun 17, 2022
The Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels were recently applied in a film project produced by Aotearoa (New Zealand)-based television platform, Oriana TV, “E Reo Noku –
Labels in Use: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Jun 3, 2022
Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels are customized by Indigenous communities to give specificity and context, and suit their needs. Label customization is an
Labels in Use: Sq’éwlets TK Family
May 13, 2022
Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels are customized by Indigenous communities to give specificity and context, and suit their needs. Label customization is an
Labels in Use: Elsie Paul
Apr 6, 2022
Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels are customized by Indigenous communities to give specificity and context, and suit their needs. Label customization is an
TK Label in use: Passamaquoddy
Mar 18, 2022
The Passamaquoddy Tribe utilizes Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels on their Passamaquoddy Peoples’ Knowledge Portal website to connect their community to their cultural heritage, and to
Read how the Oma People in Laos are integrating the Labels into their own Traditional Knowledge work
Sep 20, 2021
Within the Database, “In addition to standard archive metadata, including a unique identification format of each piece of content, all content is tagged with a
Whakatōhea Traditional Knowledge Labels Presentation
Sep 9, 2021
This presentation by Whakatōhea showcases how they implemented the Traditional Knowledge Labels for their Iwi. They share some fun strategies to teach the Labels through
Karuk Tribe TK Labels
Nov 23, 2020
Local Contexts is working together with the Karuk Tribe to design intellectual property strategies with agreements for researchers; to develop transfer of ownership forms for
Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal TK Labels
Nov 23, 2020
The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal — a collaboration between the Spokane Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes Of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of
