Indigenous Ecological Knowledges and Geographic Information Systems: Exploring ontologically compatible techniques and technologies - Hilo, Hawaii - November 2010

土著学者和其他人参加的这一讲习班将探讨在土著本体的基础上建立空间数据基础设施。讲习班的重点是讨论利用许多土著群体的文化原则、习俗和协议中所包含的空间知识系统，为管理空间数据格式化地理信息系统、全球定位系统和遥感技术的新方法的可能性。PI和CoPI是来自不同土著群体，阿拉斯加原住民，美洲印第安人，毛利人和夏威夷人的博士科学家，研讨会与会者将包括来自这些以及其他群体的学者。汇集的专业知识将包括制图学、文化生态学、人类学、口述历史、计算机科学、地理信息系统技术、人文地理学、语言学和医学。 将通过公开呼吁邀请与会者参加，其中包括土著学者和文化领袖、社会科学家、计算机科学家、空间数据基础设施专家和其他具有相关知识和兴趣的人;将特别注意接触来自代表性不足群体的新职业科学家。指出其他国际努力（ESRI保护计划，原住民测绘网络，土著测绘网络，和综合方法的可持续发展项目），土著社区正在与空间技术，以映射他们的领土的方式，他们认为反映了自己的知识，研究小组成功地认为，有可能探索一种不同的方式组织空间数据。组织者指出，在与土著文化知识的关系中，GIS因其有限的潜力或有害影响而受到批评，因为它不强调，忽视或贬低对土著文化至关重要的概念，包括普遍存在的相关性，非经验经验的价值，控制地理知识水平的必要性，以及二元思想的模糊性。本次研讨会将更进一步，而不仅仅是比较文化空间知识的差异，并探讨什么样的系统可以基于土著空间现实，实践和协议，以及这样一个系统会是什么样子？不仅要研究土著知识与西方知识体系的不同之处，还要研究如何实际构建基于土著概念化的空间信息系统。

This workshop of indigenous scholars and others will explore the creation of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) based on indigenous ontology. The focus of the workshop is to discuss the possibility of new ways to format Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Remote Sensing (RS) technology for managing spatial data by drawing upon the spatial knowledge systems imbedded in the cultural principles, practices, and protocols of many indigenous groups. The PIs and CoPIs are PhD scientists from diverse indigenous groups, Alaska Native, American Indian, Maori, and Hawaiian, and the workshop attendees will include scholars from these, as well as other groups. The expertise assembled will be cartography, cultural ecology, anthropology, oral history, computer science, GIS technology, human geography, linguistics, and medical sciences. Participants will be invited through an open call for participation that will include Indigenous academics and cultural leaders, social scientists, computer scientists, SDI specialist, and others with relevant knowledge and interest; special attention will be made to reach out to new career scientists from underrepresented groups. Pointing to other international efforts (ESRI Conservation Program, Aboriginal Mapping network, Indigenous Mapping Network, and the Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development Project) where indigenous communities are engaging with spatial technologies in order to map their territories in a way they feel reflects their own knowledge, the research team successfully argues that there is potential to explore a different way of organizing spatial data. The organizers point out that in relationship to Indigenous cultural knowledges, GIS has been critiques for its limited potential or detrimental effects because it de-emphasized, ignores, or devalues concepts that are of central importance to Indigenous cultures, including the ubiquity of relatedness, the value of non-empirical experience, the need to control access to levels of geographical knowledge, and the value of ambiguity over binary thought. This workshop will go one step further than simply comparing the differences in cultural spatial knowledge and explore what kind of system could be based on Indigenous spatial realities, practices, and protocols and what would such a system look like? Not just looking at how indigenous knowledge differs from Western knowledge systems but at how one can actually structure a spatial information system that is based on indigenous conceptualizations.