Contexts of Collection - understanding the material record of Yolngu cultures

该项目旨在发现从传教之初到现在Yolngu社会材料记录的制作者的动机，以及Yolngu自己在收藏和参与拍摄方面的动机。该项目在将物质记录（电影、摄影和物质文化）作为一个整体处理和调查所涉土著人民的机构方面是激进的。 该项目将产生许多出版物和基于网络的资源，这些出版物和资源对研究人员和Yolngu都非常有用，并可以为基于收藏的研究提供模型。<br /> 该研究项目将使人们认识到Yolngu社会的物质记录的协作性质，这些记录是研究人员、收藏家、电影制作人和Yolngu人自己长期参与制作的。它将展示如何将数字技术用作研究过程的一个组成部分，以产生可供各种不同用户使用的结果。它将帮助人们了解导致目前博物馆和档案记录的复杂历史过程，并促进其使用。

The project aims to discover the motivations of the makers of the material record of Yolngu society from the beginning of missionisation to the present, and those of the Yolngu themselves, in contributing to collections and taking part in filming. The project is radical in treating the material record (film, photography, and material culture) as a whole and in investigating the agency of the Indigenous people involved. The project will result in a number of publications and a web-based resource that will be of great utility to researchers and Yolngu alike and can provide a model for collections based research.<br /> The research project will make people aware of the collaborative nature of the material record of Yolngu societies that has been made over time by the participation of researchers, collectors, filmmakers and Yolngu people themselves. It will demonstrate the ways in which digital technology can be used as an integral part of a research process to produce outcomes that can be made accessible to a wide range of different users. It will help people understand the complex historical processes that have resulted in the present museum and archival record and facilitate their use.