Using Local and Traditional Knowledge to Define a Digital Library for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Rathi, Dinesh
  • Piltingsrud, Anastasia
  • Farnel, Sharon
  • Maloney, Elaine
  • Shiri, Ali
  • Cockney, Cathy
  • Stobbs, Robyn
  • Campbell, Sandy

• This poster was presented at the University of the Arctic Scientific Congress held in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 16 - 19, 2016. The poster describes the developments in the Digital Library North project, a collaboration between the University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies and the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), to build a digital library for the ICRC. This poster focuses on frameworks for incorporating community input, methods used to incorporate local and traditional knowledge, development of culturally appropriate metadata and future plans.

• Date created

  2016-09-05

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Inuvialuit Settlement Region - Library Resources
  • Digital Libraries
  • Community Led Research Projects - Arctic Regions

• Type of Item

  Conference Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3KS02

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International