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AAIA 11th Annual Repatriation Conference
The Association on American Indian Affairs’ 11th Annual Repatriation Conference will focus on “Feeding the Fire: Advancing the Movement.” Taking place virtually across the month of February, this conference will provide a “space to exchange strategies, sharpen skills, share tools, build community, and chart clear pathways forward.” The Local Contexts team will present “Supporting Indigenous …
Hub and API Updates
Here you can see posts on major updates to the Hub or API that can affect your workflow. View our Changelog for smaller patches throughout the year.
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The Local Contexts team and Council members walked through these updates, reviewed how these changes might affect you, and fielded questions and feedback. 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This change to a new domain will allow all instances of the Hub to be consistent. The anth-ja77-lc-dev-42d5.uc.r.appspot.com URL will be deactivated on November 7th, 2023. You can now use the sandbox.localcontextshub.org link to login to the test Hub!"},{"id":9379,"link":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/project-sharing-and-new-notices\/","name":"project-sharing-and-new-notices","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hub-Updates.png","alt":"\u201cHub Updates, white text on decorative orange background."},"title":"Project Sharing and New Notices","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Local Contexts","link":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/author\/localcontexts\/"},"date":"Ao\u00fbt 16, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-08-16 21:13:33","modifiedDate":"2025-02-19 22:16:56","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-02-19 22:16:56","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/category\/blog\/hub-updates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hub Updates<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/category\/blog\/hub-updates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hub Updates<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","translation_priority":"<a href='https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/?taxonomy=translation_priority&term=facultatif' rel='translation_priority'>Facultatif<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":37},"status":"publish","content":"The Local Contexts Hub will receive a major update on August 17, 2023 (US Pacific Time). The latest version of the Hub introduces the Projects Board, Collections Care Notices, Notice translations, and new ways to share a Project. 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For more detailed information visit our API Guide or Changelog. New Calls: Multi-Project Detail: Loads the project information for all projects whose unique_id is included at the end of the path. Institution Projects by Providers ID: Get a list of all projects of"},{"id":9409,"link":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/sub-and-related-projects\/","name":"sub-and-related-projects","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Untitled-design-1.png","alt":"Composite of screenshots of the Local Contexts Hub showing the Sub Projects and Related Projects section of the Project page."},"title":"Sub and Related Projects","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Local Contexts","link":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/author\/localcontexts\/"},"date":"Avr 19, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-04-19 20:03:59","modifiedDate":"2023-04-19 20:03:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-04-19 20:03:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/category\/blog\/hub-updates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hub Updates<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/category\/blog\/hub-updates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hub Updates<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","translation_priority":"<a href='https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/?taxonomy=translation_priority&term=facultatif' rel='translation_priority'>Facultatif<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":10},"status":"publish","content":"The Local Contexts Hub received a major update on April 10, 2023 (US Pacific Time). The latest version of the Hub introduces Source, Sub, and Related Projects features. Sub Projects and Related Projects show different types of relationships between Projects. 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The latest version of the Hub introduces new features and Project workflow, in addition to improved general functionality and bug fixes. Highlights from this update include: Simplified Projects list The information shown on your list of Projects has been"}]
