Aboriginal Knowledge, Digital Technologies and Cultural Collections: Policy, Protocols, Practice

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de Souza, Poppy
Edmonds, Fran
McQuire, Scott
Evans, Michelle
Chenhall, Richard
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This report arises from research conducted for the ARC LP (130100733), Aboriginal young people in Victoria and Digital Storytelling. It responds to the increasing use of digital technologies to provide access to all kinds of information that reside in collecting institutions, which relates specifically to Indigenous people, their culture and heritage. While individual collecting institutions have their own policies, procedures and protocols concerning access and distribution of digitised material, there remain many new avenues for consideration regarding the production and control of digital content. This is particularly the case with respect to the explosion of digital-born material (such as the digital stories made by Aboriginal young people for the ARC LP) and how it is collected and managed now and into the future. Here, we discuss the management and use of digital collections in relation to the experiences of curators, collections managers, archivists, production managers and librarians, including members of the Aboriginal community in southeast Australia, who currently work in collecting institutions or with digital collections. We highlight their concerns and ambitions as we seek to understand how the current suite of collection policies and protocols contributes to new and progressive approaches to the care of these collections.

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© The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.

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de Souza, P; Edmonds, F; McQuire, S; Evans, M; Chenhall, R, Aboriginal Knowledge, Digital Technologies and Cultural Collections: Policy, Protocols, Practice, 2016

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