Shaping of a digital library in Canada's North

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Shiri, Ali
  • Stobbs, Robyn
  • Farnel, Sharon
  • Cockney, Cathy
  • Rathi, Dinesh
  • Campbell, Sandy

• This project seeks to: 1. Investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. 2. Identify and select cultural heritage information. 3. Create a culturally appropriate metadata framework for resource description. 4. Develop requirements for multilingual user interfaces that support the dominant languages. 5. Conduct a user centred evaluation of the digital library. 6. Develop a sustainability strategy for the digital library to ensure long-term access to information. 6. Provide training in information management to local project participants.

• Date created

  2015-06-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Digital Library North Project - University of Alberta
  • Posters
  • Digital Libraries - Canada - Northern Regions
  • Culturally Appropriate Metadata
  • Multilingual User Interfaces
  • Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre - Information Services
  • Inuvialuit Settlement Region - Library Services
  • 2014 - 2018
  • Inuvialuit Settlement Region - Canada

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3BR8MG66

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International