Podcasts about mukurtu

Join us for our Season 3 kickoff of Archives and Communities where Trevor Bond and Lotus Norton of Washington State University join Laura Daly to discuss the Mukurtu CMS Project! The Mukurtu CMS software focuses on outreach and connection with Indigenous communities in an effort to support indigenous communities and their digital archives in ways that support and respect their wants and needs. CDSC website https://cdsc.libraries.wsu.edu/ Dr. Christen's publications (and co-authored work) about Mukurtu and related projects https://www.kimchristen.com/publications/ Mukurtu CMS project website https://mukurtu.org/, Showcase https://mukurtu.org/showcase-2/ and Support https://mukurtu.org/support/ Plateau Peoples' Web Portal https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/ and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Wetxuuwíitin' collection https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/collection/wetxuuwiitin-formerly-spalding-allen-collection-nez-perce WSU's Center for Native American Research and Collaboration https://native.wsu.edu/cnrc/ NSF funded project “Culturally Responsive Indigenous Science: Connecting Land, Language, and Culture” https://cadrek12.org/projects/culturally-responsive-indigenous-science-connecting-land-language-and-culture

Discover Mukurtu, the online database helping Indigenous communities achieve self-determination through the conservation of digital archive material.

Discover Mukurtu, the online database helping Indigenous communities achieve self-determination through the conservation of digital archive material.

Mukurtu is a Warumungu word meaning “dilly bag” or a safe keeping place for sacred materials. Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation CC-NY-BDReader advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article may contain images of people who have died. A few years ago, the State Library of NSW was working with Moree’s Dhiiyaan Centre to pull together archival photographs of the 1965 Freedom Rides, an Aboriginal-led protest against racist segregationist policies in NSW. Moree – where Aboriginal people were once banned from swimming in the public pool – was an important site in the history of protest against official segregation in Australia, and a key stop on the Freedom Rides route. Demonstrating outside the Council Chambers at Moree, February 1965 Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606003. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation, Author provided (No reuse) Kirsten Thorpe - a Worimi woman, professional archivist and now a researcher at UTS – was then at the State Library, working with Mitchell Librarian Richard Neville to dig out old protest photos to share with the Moree community in the lead up to an exhibition. But in practice, collecting, sharing and storing such digital archives in perpetuity is no simple matter. Surveying at Bowraville, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606019. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) How to ensure the material is stored safely, so the whole process doesn’t need to be repeated in a few years time? How to capture the outpouring of memories and stories that such an exhibition evokes? What if the exhibition inspires more people to come forward with important historical material or accounts – where does that material end up? And how to ensure Indigenous people are empowered to tell their own stories and have a say over how digital archives are managed? Enter Mukurtu. Moree residents look on as the students protest outside the Moree Council Chambers, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606004. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is an online system that aims to help Indigenous communities conserve stories, videos, photographs, songs, word lists and other digital archives. Mukurtu is a Warumungu word meaning “dilly bag” or a safe keeping place for sacred materials. It’s a free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities in mind to manage and share digital cultural heritage. Kirsten Thorpe says it’s the kind of thing that would have been really useful back when she was collating Freedom Rides material for the Moree community. Conserving Indigenous archives for future generations Mukurtu is/are already being used by Native American communities to store and preserve digital archives, and Kirsten Thorpe – now a senior researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS – is involved in making Mukurtu more widely accessible in Australia. She works with other key players, such as Professor Kimberly Christen at the Centre for Digital Curation and Scholarship in the US and Richard Neville at the State Library of NSW, to ensure the Mukurtu Project has the institutional support it needs to help Indigenous communities protect their cultural heritage for generations to come. On today’s episode of the podcast, Kirsten Thorpe and Richard Neville explain why Mukurtu is needed, how it’s being used and what’s at stake if we don’t find better ways to empower Indigenous people with the skills and tech to conserve and manage digital archives. Freedom rider Charles Perkins (right) surveying members of the Moree community about living conditions, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5605027. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) New to podcasts? Podcasts are often best enjoyed using a podcast app. All iPhones come with the Apple Podcasts app already installed, or you may want to listen and subscribe on another app such as Pocket Casts (click here to listen to Trust Me, I’m An Expert on Pocket Casts). You can also hear us on Stitcher, Spotify or any of the apps below. Just pick a service from one of those listed below and click on the icon to find Trust Me, I’m An Expert. Additional audio Kindergarten by Unkle Ho, from Elefant Traks ABC News 1965 intro music. Lee Rosevere, Betrayal. Lead image: Nina Maile Gordon

Thabi is a public genre of individually-composed song indigenous to the west Pilbara region. The songs are sung by one or two singers without dance accompaniment, and are held by members of the Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Palyku, Martuthunira, Kurrama, Nyiyaparli, Banyjima, Yinhawangka, Kariyarra, Nyamal and Ngarla language groups – collectively referred to as Ngarda-ngarli. While performances thrived from at least the 1930s to the 1960s and were recorded up until the 1980s, today only a small number of elders hold knowledge and perform the songs. In this workshop we examine the process of building a song database that draws on legacy recordings of thabi, text sources and photos, for use by contemporary and future nyinirri (singers). In the first half, Ngarluma PhD student Andrew Dowding discusses how the project came about, starting over ten years ago when he first came across recordings of his maternal grandfather and prolific thabi composer Robert Churnside among hundreds of thabi songs in the AIATSIS archives, and how initial play back sessions conducted by Dowding, Treloyn and Brown with thabi custodians and elders informed the concept of an online digital archive to support revitalisation. In the second half, Jared Kuvent and Reuben Brown will discuss the workflow for digitising text sources, splitting audio files and consolidating audio metadata, and demonstrate the project’s database in File Maker Pro, as a rapid prototype for a song database and as a step toward future migration of the project’s data to public content management systems such as Mukurtu for community use and ownership beyond the life of the research project.

Michael Ashley talks about the amazing work his company is doing with indigenous tribes around the world through Mukurtu.net. He makes a point at the end that we sometimes need to slow down and think about our data storage and that some data, should be allowed to be erased.