Indigenous Knowledges: a Digital Residency Exchange and Best Practices Pilot

土著知识数字居住交流和最佳做法试点项目大大促进了英国关于土著知识协议和土著研究道德在档案和收藏品数字编目中的地位的对话。它也不可避免地揭示了一些障碍，以实现最佳做法，在不断尝试解决部分，缺失，和不正确的代表土著物体，故事和知识，在数字空间连接到英国机构。鉴于英国对土著社区的影响长期存在，而且仍然没有得到充分解决，这项工作必须以全面和合乎道德的方式继续下去。在这些障碍中，我们寻求克服的三个障碍都与传播我们的核心研究结果有关，其中包括：1。英国机构受到物质和智力因素的严重制约，无论是策展时间不足，还是对土著财产的文化和历史背景及其与当今社区的关系的了解有限。2.数字编目的复杂性（在较大的机构）或缺乏（在区域网站）进一步阻碍了英国目录中土著财产的代表性。在某些情况下，多个CMS管理单个集合;在其他情况下，数字化仍然是一个遥远的目标。在这两方面，通过数字化工具实现土著参与的“快速解决办法”的实施都很复杂。3.最后，英国机构在很大程度上缺乏必要的知识，如何建立有意义的关系，与社区绝对必要的工作，在数字空间的土著知识的道德待遇，这样，即使在机构的意愿和/或知识存在，进展停滞。我们提议的活动将直接涉及所有这三个方面。成立一个工作组的目的是使英国馆长和档案管理员与土著同行和其他专家进行持续对话。这将是一个实践和理解的横向交流，以建立对协议及其应用的理解;探索个人和机构知识的差距;并探索策展人在这一领域面临的问题的集体解决方案。虽然这将对英国策展人带来一些非常直接的教育利益，但对于土著策展人和档案管理员，特别是部落学院的策展人和档案管理员，在建立国际网络和发展最佳实践方面也具有巨大的价值。以这种方式共同努力将解决策展团队大幅减少的机构所面临的挑战，同时保持低物质承诺。这也将解决第三个问题，既可以在工作组的土著和非土著成员之间建立联系，又可以确保英国的GLAM专业人员了解与社区建立联系的途径。后者将通过建立跨机构的Mukurtu门户网站得到进一步发展。按照高原人民门户网站的模式，该网站将把与一系列英国财产的来源社区有关的物品纳入一个单一的空间，使这些社区能够参与其祖先财产的数字管理，而无需对自己的CMS进行技术修复。这一进程将使策展人与社区代表接触，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择：通过我们的IK网络研讨会的评估调查进行自我选择;直接接触，以确保充分的土著代表性，并纳入学术GLAM计划，以包括下一代馆长和档案管理员。我们将特别鼓励较小的区域收藏参与。

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.