Events

April 29, 2025, 22:00 UTC This webinar will focus on recent updates to the Local Contexts Hub, including the launch of the Membership, Subscription, and Integration Partner programs. The Local Contexts team and Council members will walk through these updates, review how these changes might affect you, and field any questions and feedback. Attendees are …

On April 29, Strategic Advisor Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea) will present as part of “Data-Driven Decolonisation? AI and Metadata in the AV Archive,” a workshop hosted by Queen Mary University of London. Maui will join panel 1, “Decolonising Archival Metadata: Institutional Experiments.” This event will be hybrid, with in-person attendance at QMUL in London, UK. For …

On March 26, Local Contexts, in partnership with UMass Amherst and the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science staff, will present the workshop, “What is Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Why Does it Matter for Public Historians?”, at the 2025 National Council on Public History (NCPH) Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This workshop introduces …

On March 20, Local Contexts team members Māui Hudson, Emily Santhanam, and Ashley Rojas will present a virtual webinar for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, titled “Tools to Support Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Cultural Authority.” In this webinar, the team will introduce the Labels and Notices and how they can be used to support …

Local Contexts is excited to participate in RightsCon 2025, taking place from February 24 to 27 online and in Taipei, Taiwan. This global summit focuses on human rights in the digital age, bringing together experts and advocates to discuss pressing issues. Our session, “Supporting Indigenous Cultural Authority and Data Sovereignty,” will explore: Join us to …

Local Contexts is thrilled to join an incredible lineup at Indigenous Futures: Capacity Building for Data Sovereignty in the Great Plains, presented by the Office of Sovereign Partnerships and Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Kansas. This three-day in-person event, February 3-5, will focus on advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) with a particular lens for …

On December 3, Local Contexts Executive Director Stephany RunningHawk Johnson will present as part of a panel, “Where Indigenous knowledge and methodologies intersect with research infrastructure,” at International Conference on Research Infrastructures, held in Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD, Australia, with online participation available for those not invited as delegates. This session will focus on the intersection of …

Ana Te Whaiti, Ejay Gillies, and Airini Gillies of Ngā Hapū o Waimārama and Xavier Forde of Ministry for Culture and Heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand will present a session, “Te Taunaha i ngā Tapuwae ō mātou Tīpuna: Piloting Traditional Knowledge Labels” at International Indigenous Research Conference 2024, held in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. This …

On November 14, Local Contexts’ Operations Manager Laure Haak, and Software Developer Ashley Rojas, along with World Data System International Technology Office’s Associate Director Reyna Jenkyns, will present a breakout session, “Implementing CARE Principles: Indigenous Data Governance using the Local Contexts Hub,” at Research Data Alliance 23rd Plenary Meeting, held in San José, Costa Rica …

The Local Contexts team is thrilled to be attending and presenting at the 2024 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM 2024), taking place in Palm Springs, CA, from November 12-14.  Take a look at the workshop and sessions our team will be presenting: Tuesday, November 12, 1:30-4:30 PMWorkshop 18: Tools for Sharing …

On November 5, 7:00 pm UTC, Local Contexts Executive Director Stephany RunningHawk Johnson will be presenting at “Biodiversity Beyond Boundaries: Mobilizing Data for the Future of Our Shared Waters.” A key topic of the session will focus on the implementation of Local Contexts in research projects, particularly in biodiversity and eDNA research. Attendees will learn …

On day one of the Institutional Repositories and Open Access Community Days 2024, Local Contexts team members Dr Janette Hamilton-Pearce (Te Whānau a Apanui) and Ashley Rojas will present a keynote, “Supporting Māori Rights and Interests in Data and Repositories.” This presentation will focus on introducing the Local Contexts tools for managing, sharing, and supporting …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

On May 21, 2024, Local Contexts team members will present at a webinar for the Ethical Open Science for Past Global Change FAIROS RCN. The webinar will have an introduction to Local Contexts, examples of its use, and discussion of implementation. To register, visit the Ethical Open Science for Past Global Change page.

Every Indigenous community has cultural and biological knowledge within educational systems, archives, libraries, and museums that they do not own, do not control, and cannot govern circulation over. In this webinar, which is being hosted by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Rights Statements Working Group, the Local Contexts team will introduce the Labels …

Members of the Local Contexts team will be attending and presenting at the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit 2024. The Summit, organized by US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, will be held April 11-12 in Tucson, Arizona, with virtual attendance options available. The Summit “will convene Indigenous leaders, Indigenous community programs, academics, policy experts, …

Strategic Advisor Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea) will be presenting a keynote about Local Contexts at an upcoming free webinar. The webinar, “Music Collections, Ownership and Community Involvement,” will be held on April 10 at 15:00 EET (UTC+2). Following UNESCO’s Convention for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH), community participation is essential in any actions related to ICH. …

On January 17, members of the Local Contexts leadership team will be a part of “Whose Open Culture? Decolonization, Indigenization, and Restitution,” a webinar from Creative Commons’ Open Culture Program. There is growing awareness in the open culture movement about issues related to the acquisition, preservation, access, and reuse of cultural heritage of Indigenous people, …

The second Local Contexts Summit and film premiere will be held 28 November in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand). The Summit will bring together people from across the Local Contexts community with a focus on Indigenous authority, control, and governance in the archive and sciences.

The Local Contexts team will be attending and presenting at the 2023 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM 2023), held in Oklahoma City, OK. On Tuesday, October 24, the team will hold a full-day pre-conference workshop, “Tools and Strategies to Support Indigenous Intellectual Property.” This hands-on workshop focuses on identifying and finding …

On October 13, Director of Outreach & Strategy Corrie Roe and Director of Cultural Affairs for the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Monique Tyndall (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans) will present about Local Contexts as part of the second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. The conference will focus on “Indigenous Research Methods & Practice in the …

Council Founding Member Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, and Te Māhurehure) will be the presenting author for “Recognising Indigenous Provenance in Biodiversity Records,” co-authored by Council Vice Chair Jane Anderson, Riley Taitingfong (CHamoru), Andrew Martinez (Salt River Pima Maricopa), and 2020-2021 ENRICH Global Chair Stephanie Carroll (Ahtna), at the TDWG Annual Conference 2023. TDWG 2023 will …

Local Contexts will be presenting a virtual pre-event webinar for GLAMhack23, the Swiss OpenGLAM data hackathon. On September 13 at 18:00 CEST (12 pm EDT), Co-Director Jane Anderson and Outreach Manager Corrie Roe will present an introduction to Local Contexts’ digital labeling system for collections and cultural heritage. GLAMhack annually “brings together cultural institutions, software …

Are you a researcher excited about supporting Indigenous rights in your data and publications?  Do you want to know how the Local Contexts Notices help researchers to disclose Indigenous interests? This webinar will focus on how the Notices can be used to create pathways for partnership and collaboration, and support Indigenous cultural authority and data …

The first Local Contexts Summit will be held on May 10 in Lenapehoking (New York City). The Summit will bring together people from across the Local Contexts community with a focus on Indigenous authority, control, and governance in the archive and sciences.  This day-long event will showcase the current and potential use of Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices, as well as …

On April 14th at 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. This year’s symposium is a one-day online event focusing on intellectual freedom issues in libraries and literature. Join members of the Local Contexts team for a brief introduction to the …

On January 20th at 6pm ET, Local Contexts Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia will be presenting at the Society for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting, held virtually this year. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages. In this …

In this webinar, Jane Anderson of New York University and Co-Director of Local Contexts will give an introduction to the Local Contexts initiative and newly launched Local Contexts Hub. Local Contexts is an initiative offering digital strategies for Indigenous communities, institutions, and researchers through the TK (Traditional Knowledge) & BC (Biocultural) Labels and Notices. Local …

Local Contexts will be part of the two-day virtual Natives in Tech Conference 2022: Developing Sovereignty in Tech. Join us on Saturday, November 5, at 6:30 pm PT. Programme Lead, Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce, and Institution Outreach Manager, Corrie Roe, will share about Local Contexts: Digital infrastructures are not neutral, but carry and perpetrate the biases …

On October 28th at noon EDT, join Local Contexts Co-Director Jane Anderson for a free and open webinar in We All Count’s “Talking Data Equity” series!  “Talking Data Equity” is a series of weekly drop-in conversations addressing questions with people who are working on operationalizing data equity. Dr. Anderson will share about Local Contexts with …

The Local Contexts & ENRICH team are excited to be a part of ATALM’s 2022 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries & Museums, which will be held October 25-27 in Temecula, California.  Swipe through to read more about the workshop and sessions: See the complete program, confirm session times, and register on the conference website.

Register to attend the next People, Plants and the Law online lecture from the University of Queensland School of Law to be held May 17, 9 am AEST (May 16, 7 pm EDT). The lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. Co-Directors Jane Anderson and Māui Hudson will present …

Join Local Contexts’ Programme Lead Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce (Te Whānau-Ā-Āpanui), Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia (Samala Chumash), and Institution Outreach Manager Corrie Roe for a webinar hosted by Western University Libraries and Western University’s Indigenous Initiatives. The presentation will include an introduction to the Local Contexts initiative, practical applications, and a demo of the newly …

Earlier this week, Institution Outreach Manager Corrie Roe and Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia presented for “Virtual Seminar on Promoting and Protecting the Arts and Cultural Expressions of Indigenous Peoples: Perspectives on the Canadian Experience,” hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) and Canada. Their presentation, which was supported by Dr. Jane Anderson, provided …

The Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Ulana ‘Ike Center of Excellence and the Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific are hosting an online seminar series that will feature Indigenous practitioners from continental and oceanic nations to advance ’Ōiwi data sovereignty efforts. The series kicks off on April 7 at 6 pm HST with O Ke Kahua Ma Mua, …

Join Local Contexts Co-Director, Jane Anderson, in conversation with Trevor Reed and Madhavi Sunder for “Finding Just Solutions to Appropriation of Indigenous Creation.” Hosted by the School for Advanced Research, this online presentation and live Q&A will be moderated by SAR President, Michael F. Brown. Exploring the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation, this …

Interested in learning more about Local Contexts? Join us on Tuesday, March 8th at 3pm ET for a free hour-long webinar with eCampusOntario. This presentation will give an introduction to the Local Contexts initiative and demonstration of the newly launched Local Contexts Hub. The Local Contexts team will explore the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels …

On January 18-20, Trent University Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies is hosting a free, virtual symposium, “Indigenous Research Ethics in a Digital World.” Local Contexts co-director Māui Hudson will speak with Dr. Robyn Rowe (Anishinaabe-kwe, Health Data Research Network Canada, ICES) and Kristine Neglia (Curve Lake First Nation, First Nations Information Governance Centre) on …