Inuvialuit Voices: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Access through Digital Storytelling in Digital Libraries

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- Shiri, Ali
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) communities in the Western Arctic face significant challenges in engaging with and utilizing digital technologies to interactively and systematically preserve, transmit, revitalize, and provide access to oral cultural heritage. This project directly addresses two SSHRC's future challenge areas:1) the role of digital technologies in preserving diverse First Nations, Métis and Inuit heritage, memory and identity and 2) the ways in which Canadians can benefit from emerging technologies in an increasingly digital and interconnected landscape. The objective of this study is to investigate, develop, and evaluate a real-time, audio-recording digital storytelling user interface for the Inuvialuit Digital Library in the ISR region in order to facilitate live capturing of Inuit community stories while they are interacting with the Digital Library. The proposed study will focus on the ISR region of the Northwest Territories, comprised of six communities: Paulatuk, Ulukhaktok, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik and Aklavik. Informed by Indigenous research methodologies, this study will adopt a community-based research methodology consisting of ethnography and participatory design.
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2018-09-28
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https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-r55r-yv72