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- Title: Indigenous Digital Collections: An Early Look at the Organisation and Culture Interface.
- Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 219 KB
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In 2004, researchers from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) conducted a review of the ATSILIRN (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Libraries and Information Resource Network) Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services. (1) The protocols had been available for a decade, but no assessment had been made of their usefulness or impact. The findings were presented in 2005 to the ATSILIRN conference in Canberra. Many participants in that review expressed, or confirmed, a need for an additional section to give guidance on the digitisation of Indigenous materials. It was clear from these comments by professionals, and confirmed by a subsequent exploration of the issues in a 2005 evaluation of the Northern Territory Library's model for Library and Knowledge Centres, (2) that digitisation of Indigenous materials posed some complex issues for organisations. Briefly, for the purposes of this study, these complexities emerge in the intersections of Indigenous and Western knowledge management systems and between the expectations of Indigenous communities and professionals in collecting institutions. They include, for example, the challenges posed by the need to accommodate different access conditions for materials that contain sensitive Indigenous knowledge and by the need for institutions and communities to deal with conflicts around different concepts of intellectual property associated with Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. These complexities emerged in addition to the routine challenges being dealt with in the evolving area of digitisation practice. The general literature has been growing in the digitisation area, as have national and international activities that focus on the digitisation of collections for enhanced access and preservation of high-demand, fragile or rare materials. The literature generally indicates a concern in the information profession about the need for consistent standards and protocols in digital repositories across institutions (3) and includes discussion of the role of digital libraries and archives, (4) intellectual property (5) and copyright issues, (6) digital rights management, (7) knowledge webs (8) and banks, (9) changing technologies, and more.