Indigenous Knowledges: a Digital Residency Exchange and Best Practices Pilot

土著知识数字居留交流和最佳做法试点大大促进了关于土著知识协议和土著研究伦理在档案和藏品数字编目中的地位的讨论。它还不可避免地揭示了在英国机构附属的数字空间中解决土著对象、故事和知识的部分、缺失和不正确表示的持续努力中实现最佳做法的一些障碍。鉴于英国对土著社区的长期影响仍未得到充分解决，这项工作必须以整体和合乎道德的方式继续下去。在这些障碍中，我们试图克服的三个障碍都与我们核心调查结果的传播有关，其中包括：1.英国机构受到物质和智力因素的严重制约，无论是缺乏策展时间，还是对土著领地的文化和历史背景或其与当今社区的关系了解有限。2.由于数字编目的复杂性(在较大的机构中)或没有数字编目(在区域地点中)，解决土著财产在英国目录中的代表性问题进一步受到阻碍。在某些情况下，多个CMS管理单个藏品；在另一些情况下，数字化仍然是一个遥远的目标。在这两个国家，通过数字工具实现原住民参与的“快速解决办法”的实施都很复杂。3.最后，英国机构在如何与社区建立有意义的关系方面基本上缺乏必要的知识--这对于在数字空间以道德方式对待土著知识来说是绝对必要的工作--以至于即使在机构意愿和/或知识存在的地方，进展也停滞不前。我们提议的活动将直接解决所有这三个问题。成立一个工作组的目的是让英国馆长和档案保管员与其土著同行和其他专家进行持续的对话。这将是一次横向的实践和理解交流，目的是加深对议定书及其适用的理解；探索个人和机构知识方面的差距；探索馆长在这一领域面临的问题的集体解决办法。虽然这将给英国馆长带来一些非常直接的教育益处，但在建立国际网络和发展最佳做法方面，它也将对土著馆长和档案保管员--特别是部落学院的馆长和档案保管员--具有巨大价值。以这种方式合作将解决各机构面临的挑战，在这些机构中，策展团队已大幅减少，同时也保持较低的物质承诺。这也将解决第三个问题，既建立工作组土著和非土著成员之间的联系，又确保英国的GLAM专业人员了解与社区建立联系的途径。后者将通过建立一个跨机构的Mukurtu门户网站得到进一步发展。遵循高原人民门户网站的模式，该网站将把一系列英国财产中与来源社区相连的物品放到一个单一的空间中，允许这些社区参与其祖先财产的数字管理，而不需要在他们自己的CMS上实施技术修复。这一进程将使馆长与社区代表接触，并将有助于启动建立互惠关系的工作。工作组的参与者将通过两种方式选出：通过评估调查为我们的知识网络研讨会进行自我选择；直接接触以确保充分的土著代表和纳入学术魅力方案，包括下一代馆长和档案保管员。我们将特别鼓励规模较小的地区性藏品参与。

The Indigenous Knowledges Digital Residency Exchange and Best Practice Pilot has significantly furthered conversation in the UK around the place of Indigenous Knowledge Protocols and Indigenous Research ethics in the digital cataloguing of archives and collections. It has also-inevitably-revealed some of the blocks to achieving best practice in ongoing attempts to address partial, missing, and incorrect representation of Indigenous objects, stories, and knowledges, in digital spaces attached to British institutions. Given the long and still under-addressed legacy of British impacts on Indigenous communities it is essential that this work continues in holistic and ethical ways. Among those blocks, the three that we seek to overcome all relate to the dissemination of our core findings, which include: 1. British institutions are severely constrained by material and intellectual factors, whether that be an insufficiency of curatorial time or limited knowledge about the cultural and historical contexts of Indigenous holdings or their relationships to present-day communities. 2. Addressing the representation of Indigenous belongings in British catalogues is further hindered by the complexity (in the larger institutions) or absence (in regional sites) of digital cataloguing. In some cases, multiple CMSs govern single collections; in others, digitization remains a distant objective. In both, the implementation of "quick fixes" that allow for Indigenous engagement through digital tools is complex. 3. Finally, British institutions largely lack the necessary knowledge as to how to build meaningful relationships with communities-absolutely essential work for the ethical treatment of Indigenous knowledges in digital spaces-such that even where institutional will and/or knowledge is present, progress stalls. Our proposed activities will directly address all three of these. The formation of a working group is intended to bring British curators and archivists into sustained conversation with their Indigenous counterparts and other experts. It will be a horizontal exchange of practice and understanding in order to build comprehension of the protocols and their application; to explore gaps in personal and institutional knowledge; and to explore collective solutions to the problems curators face in this area. While there will be some very direct educational benefit to British curators in this, it will also be of immense value to Indigenous curators and archivists-especially those at tribal colleges-in terms of building an international network and developing best practice. Working together in this way will address the challenges faced by institutions where curatorial teams have been significantly reduced, while also keeping material commitment low. This will also address that third problem, by both generating connections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the working group and ensuring GLAM professionals in Britain understand the routes to connection with communities. This latter will be further developed through the establishing of a cross-institutional Mukurtu portal. Following the Plateau Peoples' Web Portal model, this site will bring items connected to source communities from a range of British holdings into a single space, allowing those communities to engage with the digital curation of their ancestral belongings without the need to implement technological fixes on their own CMSs. This process will bring curators into contact with community representatives and will help to initiate the work of building reciprocal relationships. Participants in the working group will be selected by two means: self-selection via the evaluation survey for our IK webinars; and direct reach-out to ensure adequate Indigenous representation and the inclusion of academic GLAM programmes to include the next generation of curators and archivists. We will particularly encourage participation from smaller, regional collections.