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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 collections portal:

“In this session, Anne Young, Director of Legal Affairs & Intellectual Property, will provide attendees with an introduction to Local Contexts (https://localcontexts.org/), whose Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels “offer Indigenous communities a tool to add cultural and historical context and cultural authority to cultural heritage content in their own local digital heritage archives as well as in digital archives, libraries, museums and other digital repositories globally.” Following this introduction, Anne will detail Newfields’ implementation of Local Contexts’ Notices and Labels within the museum’s CMS and how that cataloged information is presented to increase understanding and respectfully care for the IMA collection while grounding Indigenous rights.”
See more details and register on the MCN 2024 website.