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Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Demonstration Session

September 17, 2024
, 15:00 UTC

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!

Research and Innovation Week at UQ

September 30, 2024
, 06:00 UTC - 08:00 UTC

“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 …

Maine Archives & Museums conference

October 4, 2024 - November 14, 2024
, 02:00 UTC - 22:30 UTC

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 …

Local Contexts Information Session

October 9, 2024
, 18:00 UTC

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

October 15, 2024 - October 16, 2024
, 22:00 UTC - 00:00 UTC

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 …

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Notices in Use


Text and screenshot on decorative red background. “Notices in use. European Reference Genome Atlas.” Screenshot showing the European Reference Genome Atlas website, “A Genome Atlas of European Biodiversity,” with the Open to Collaborate Notice. The icon is a black square with two hands reaching towards each other over a box.

Notices in use: ERGA

Mar 8, 2023
The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) has applied an Open to Collaborate Notice. ERGA, the pan-European partner of the Earth BioGenome Project, is an international consortium

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Left: Text and screenshot on decorative red background. “Notices in use. Fortepan.us.” Below the title is a screenshot of the Fortepan website showing the TK and Attribution Incomplete Notice icons in the information about a sepia photograph. Right:

Notices in use: Fortepan.us

Feb 1, 2023
Fortepan.us has applied Local Contexts Notices in its digital photograph archive. Fortepan.us is an open source archival platform presenting an alternative public history based on snapshots

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Notices in Use: OpenTEK

Jul 20, 2022
The four Local Contexts Notices — Traditional Knowledge, Biocultural, Attribution Incomplete, and Open to Collaborate — have been applied to the OpenTEK platform. OpenTEK is a

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