Events

Northeast Network and Technical Implementation Working Group Crossover Meeting

The next Northeast Network meeting will be a crossover meeting with the Technical Implementation Working Group. The meeting will be held 8 July UTC.

For this presentation, TIWG Co-Chair Joshua Shaw will present on his work to develop a Local Contexts plugin for ArchivesSpace. This presentation will cover some of the development of the tool in some technical detail, and will reserve plenty of time for discussion in the second half of the hour. 

This meeting will be recorded for group members, and available to stream for one month following the presentation. If you are unable to attend but have feedback or questions, please email the outreach team at outreach@localcontexts.org. 

Current members of the Network and Working Group should have an email and calendar invite with connection details. If you are interested in the group, you can read more and submit your interest on our Working Groups and Networks page.


The Local Contexts Northeast Network brings together Indigenous community members and citizens, institution and organization staff, and others located in or with connections to the region to see how we can together support the momentum and interest for the use of the Local Contexts Labels and Notices in the region.


The Local Contexts Technical Implementation Working Group (TIWG) connects institution and data repository staff, researchers, and others for technical discussions around implementing the Local Contexts Labels and Notices within metadata and databases.

Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

December 2, 2026
, 22:00 UTC
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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 Hub Information Session

October 14, 2026
, 19:00 UTC
“Information Session.” Text on decorative blue-green background.

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!

Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting

September 30, 2026
, 21:00 UTC
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The next Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting will be held September 30 UTC. For this meeting, we will host a brief presentation orienting the group to Local Contexts Labels and Notices as tools for operationalizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov). We will also work in breakout discussions about IDSov principles and terminology and to compile resources, knowledge, …

Climate Week 2026

September 22, 2026 - September 23, 2026
, 22:30 UTC - 00:30 UTC
Event poster. “Living Data, Living Land. More-Than-Human Rights, AI, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Tuesday, September 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218, NYU Law. Speakers: Jane Anderson, Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet), Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Erin Robinson, Neil Davies, Maheata White Davies (Raiatea), Mililani Ganivet (Tahiti).”

Building on last year’s inaugural Living Data, Living Lands, this year’s NYC Climate Week convening will center the question that the Global Indigenous Movement has been addressing for decades: How can Indigenous communities control the AI infrastructure itself? This gathering engages AI, which, left unchecked, could extend extractive logics that absorbs material without attribution, provenance, …