Events
Upcoming Events
NYU Film Screening and Discussion
In partnership with Local Contexts and Center CIRCL, NYU Libraries is excited to present a screening of the short documentary Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home, followed by a discussion with Dr. Jordan Kinder, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communications. The film charts the groundbreaking work undertaken by the Penobscot Nation to restore Penobscot …
Cultural Institutions Working Group meeting
The next Cultural Institution Working Group meeting will be held November 17 UTC. For this meeting, we will hear from the group’s Chair, Gwen Saul, and colleagues at the New York State Museum. Their team has engaged in a long term effort to implement Local Contexts Notices, and have launched their use within their collections …
Local Contexts Hub Information 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!
Local Contexts Virtual Office Closed
The Local Contexts team will be away from our desks December 28-January 1 for a year-end break. If you have any questions during this time, please contact us through our website, and we will get back to you when we return to our desks on January 4, 2027.
TUM Project Week: Data Ethics in Practice
The Technical University of Munich’s Project Weeks create a framework in which students and lecturers work on innovative solutions to current problems across disciplines, curricula, and locations. Local Contexts is thrilled to collaborate with TUM to offer students a chance to engage in a shared space of theoretical and practical technical problem-solving with the goal …
Organic Seed Growers Conference 2027
Save the date! The biannual Organic Seed Growers Conference, hosted by the Organic Seed Alliance, will be held March 24-31, in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, and virtually. This will be the first time this longstanding event is hosted outside of Oregon. There will be a focus on farmer’s rights, intellectual property, seed stories and their …
Past Events
Biodiversity Genomics Academy (BGA24)
Local Contexts team members Stephany RunningHawk Johnson (Oglala Lakota Nation), Ashley Rojas, Corrie Roe, and Emily Santhanam (Chickasaw/Choctaw/Tamilian) and University of California Santa Cruz researcher Ann Mc Cartney will lead a two-hour workshop, “Actioning the CARE Principles in Biodiversity Genomics Data and Metadata using Local Contexts Labels and Notices,” as a part of this year’s …
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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
Supporting Indigenous Relationships and Acknowledgements in Scientific Research with BC Labels
Indigenous Peoples have the right to make decisions about the future use of information, biological collections, data, and digital sequence information that derives from associated lands, waters, and territories. The Local Contexts Biocultural (BC) Labels support this right by defining community expectations around appropriate use of biocultural collections and data. The BC Labels focus on …
VRA 2024
Emma Carter, Rights Specialist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, will present a session, “Grounding Indigenous Rights in Redesigning Newfields’ Online Collections,” at Visual Resources Association 2024, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This in-person session will highlight how Newfields integrated the Local Contexts system into their new online collections portal: “Indianapolis Museum of Art …
Local Contexts Information 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!
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 …
Research and Innovation Week at UQ
“Indigenous Data Governance: A Discussion” will present a panel of Indigenous researchers, data custodians and data stewards discussing current developments in this field, including the importance of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property concerns, governance of Indigenous Data Framework for the HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons, and tools and methods for data governance (including Local …
