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Local Contexts Summit

Sep 15, 2023

November 28, 2023 NZT The second Local Contexts Summit will be held November 28 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand). The Summit will bring

Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science launch

Sep 15, 2023

Photo Credit: Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Launched last week, the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) “will

ATALM 2023

Sep 15, 2023

October 24-26, 2023 Local Contexts team will be attending and presenting at the 2023 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM 2023). On

Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck conference

Sep 15, 2023

October 13, 2023 EST Contexts as part of the second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. The conference will focus on “Indigenous Research Methods &

TDWG 2023

Sep 15, 2023

October 9-13, 2023 AEST Council Founding Member Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, and Te Māhurehure) will be the presenting author for “Recognising Indigenous Provenance in Biodiversity

Poster for Glam Hack 2023 Local Contexts presentation, “Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Cultural Authority in Collections and Data. Online pre-event. September 13. 18:00 CEST.”

GLAMhack23

Aug 1, 2023

September 13, 2023, 12pm ET Local Contexts will be presenting a virtual pre-event webinar for GLAMhack23, the Swiss OpenGLAM data hackathon. On September 13 at

We are hiring!

Jul 19, 2023

Join our team! Visit our Jobs page for more information on how to apply.

Local Contexts for Researchers

Jun 22, 2023

July 19, 2023, 5pm-6:30pm ET Are you a researcher excited about supporting Indigenous rights in your data and publications? Do you want to know how the

Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home

May 26, 2023

Check out this film by the Penobscot Nation and Local Contexts that charts the groundbreaking work undertaken by the Penobscot Nation to restore Penobscot cultural

Generational Sustainability of Local Contexts

May 23, 2023

Founded in 2010, Local Contexts is a community initiative that partners with Indigenous communities, organizations, information infrastructure providers, universities, and scholarly associations to fundamentally change

Local Contexts Summit

Apr 19, 2023

May 10, 2023, 10am-4pm ET The first Local Contexts Summit will be held on May 10 in Lenapehoking (New York City). The Summit will bring together

Local Contexts Newsletter

Apr 19, 2023

We are excited to launch the Local Contexts newsletter! In each newsletter, you will find a collection of the tools and support Local Contexts has to

NMLA Spring Symposium

Mar 29, 2023

April 14, 2023, 9:15am MT (12:15pm ET) Local Contexts will be presenting at the New Mexico Library Association’s (NMLA) Spring Symposium, held virtually this year.

Left: White text on a decorative green background: “The rise of digital archaeology highlights questions about whose archaeological heritage is collected and digitized, who decides what information is stored and where, what is shareable and shared, with whom digital data are shared, how they are cared for, and how they are curated for future use. Gupta, N., Martindale, A., Supernant, K., & Elvidge, M. (2023). The CARE Principles and the Reuse, Sharing, and Curation of Indigenous Data in Canadian Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(1), 76-89. doi:10.1017/aap.2022.33” Middle: White text on a decorative green background: “The CARE framework can guide archaeologists in redressing problematic practices that distance Indigenous peoples from the entire ‘data life cycle—that is, in the collection, interpretation, preservation, curation, circulation, and reuse of archaeological and other heritage data. Gupta, N., Martindale, A., Supernant, K., & Elvidge, M. (2023). The CARE Principles and the Reuse, Sharing, and Curation of Indigenous Data in Canadian Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(1), 76-89. doi:10.1017/aap.2022.33” Right: White text on a decorative green background: “The burden of changing unethical processes, policies, and practice in archaeology often falls on Indigenous peoples, nations, communities, and scholars. Greater efforts must be made in all sectors within the archaeological community to bring data practice into alignment with the CARE principles, which can begin to shift this burden. Gupta, N., Martindale, A., Supernant, K., & Elvidge, M. (2023). The CARE Principles and the Reuse, Sharing, and Curation of Indigenous Data in Canadian Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(1), 76-89. doi:10.1017/aap.2022.33”

CARE Principles in Archaeology

Mar 9, 2023

The Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels were recently included in an article published by Advances in Archaeological Practice about the application of the CARE Principles

Text on a decorative background: [Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities] have grown tired of gifting their time, resources, and knowledge to research under the auspices of the public-good without involvement, benefits, and fair attribution,” from A. Mc Cartney, Innovating Tools To Create A Future For Biodiversity Genomic Data Governance To Support A New Era Of Ethical Genomic Research Practitioners With The Help Of EOSC Future And RDA (2023).

Operationalizing CARE Principles and Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Genomic Research

Mar 1, 2023

The Research Data Alliance recently published a blog about operationalizing the CARE Principles and Indigenous Data Sovereignty in a genomic research project. Written by genomicist Dr.

Building Community Into How Local Contexts Does Its Work

Jan 30, 2023

The Local Contexts project grew from the needs of Indigenous and local organizations who wanted a practical method to deal with the range of intellectual

SSILA Annual Meeting

Jan 17, 2023

January 20, 2023, 6pm-7pm ET Local Contexts Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia will be presenting at the Society for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Local Contexts initiative and integration plugin for ArchivesSpace

Nov 18, 2022

January 18, 2023, 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET (11:00am – 12:00pm PT) In this webinar, Jane Anderson of New York University and Co-Director of Local Contexts

Grounding Indigenous Rights in DataCite metadata

Nov 16, 2022

DataCite is an organization that provides and helps to manage and share DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers, a persistent identifier) for research data and outputs. By

Natives in Tech Conference 2022

Nov 2, 2022

November 5, 2022 6:30pm PT Local Contexts will be part of the two-day virtual Natives in Tech Conference 2022: Developing Sovereignty in Tech. Join us

On a decorative blue background, title and diagram. Title: “Guidelines on the Implementation of the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices in the European Reference Genome Atlas for Biodiversity Researchers.” The diagram shows Figure 1, the ERGA Label and Notice Implementation Workflow, steps 1 to 6. Step 1, metadata manifest upload by sample ambassador. Step 2, metadata brokering. Step 3, alert ERGA managers. Step 4, internal/public metadata sharing. Step 5, internal sequence data and data manifest upload. Step 6, internal/public repository selected.

Guidance Documentation for Implementing Labels in ERGA

Oct 19, 2022

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) in partnership with COPO and Local Contexts has created a guide for biodiversity researchers to support the inclusion of

Black text on a decorative blue-green background: “If Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) are not connected to their information and data, then there are limits to how IPLC can govern, make decisions and derive benefits from its future use. Golan, Riddle, Hudson, Anderson, Kusabs & Coltman, Benefit sharing: Why inclusive provenance metadata matter (2022).”

Benefit sharing: Why inclusive provenance metadata matter

Sep 21, 2022

A new journal article published today speaks to the need to establish Indigenous data provenance in genetic research. Co-authored by Local Contexts team members and collaborators,

We All Count’s “Talking Data Equity”

Sep 16, 2022

October 28, 2022, 12pm EDT Join Local Contexts Co-Director Jane Anderson for a free and open webinar in We All Count’s “Talking Data Equity” series! “Talking

The Problem of Property

Aug 11, 2022

In this film, Dr. Jane Anderson, Founder of Local Contexts, discusses the language of “property,” “ownership,” and the real, tangible questions around culture and cultural

Supporting Indigenous Data: Introducing the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels

May 11, 2022

May 17, 9am AEST (May 16, 7pm EDT) Register to attend the next People, Plants and the Law online lecture from the University of Queensland

Virtual Seminar on Promoting and Protecting the Arts and Cultural Expressions of Indigenous Peoples

May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022 Earlier this week, Institution Outreach Manager Corrie Roe and Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia presented for “Virtual Seminar on Promoting and Protecting

Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Rights and Interests in Data and Collections

Apr 28, 2022

May 10, 2022, 3pm-4:30pm EDT Join Local Contexts’ Programme Lead Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce (Te Whānau-Ā-Āpanui), Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia (Samala Chumash), and Institution Outreach

Sciences and the Sacred: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Knowledge Stewardship

Apr 5, 2022

April 7, 2022, 6:00pm HST The Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Ulana ‘Ike Center of Excellence and the Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific are hosting an online

Finding Just Solutions to Appropriation of Indigenous Creation

Mar 29, 2022

March 31, 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm MDT Join Local Contexts Co-Director, Jane Anderson, in conversation with Trevor Reed and Madhavi Sunder for “Finding

Using Indigenous Standards to Implement the CARE Principles: Setting Expectations through Tribal Research Codes

Mar 15, 2022

Maui Hudson, Co-Founder of Local Contexts, and several others published an article in Frontiers in Genetics titled “Using Indigenous Standards to Implement the CARE Principles:

eCampusOntario: An Overview with Local Contexts

Mar 4, 2022

March 8, 2022, 3pm-4pm ET Interested in learning more about Local Contexts? Join us on Tuesday, March 8th at 3pm ET for a free hour-long

Indigenous Research Ethics in a Digital World

Jan 14, 2022

January 20, 2022, 3:00pm – 5:00pm ET Local Contexts co-director Māui Hudson will speak with Dr. Robyn Rowe (Anishinaabe-kwe, Health Data Research Network Canada, ICES)

Molecular Ecology: “Creating space for Indigenous perspectives on access and benefit-sharing: Encouraging researcher use of the Local Contexts Notices”

Apr 21, 2021

Libby Higgins, Maui Hudson, and Jane Anderson encourage researchers to use TK, BC, and CI Labels and Notices to help Indigenous communities gain visibility

Listen to a Penobscot Community Perspective

Sep 20, 2020

James Francis, Sr. (Penobscot Nation) discusses using the Traditional Knowledge Labels in the Penobscot community. Click to watch the video here.

“Indigenous Data Sovereignty” Seminar at ASU

Dec 17, 2018

“Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of Indigenous peoples to govern the collection, ownership, and application of data about Indigenous communities, nations, peoples, lands, and

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