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Digital Archives and Community Collecting

The preservation of both physical and digital archives is crucial for the intergenerational transfer of knowledge within Indigenous communities in Australia. This initiative emphasizes the importance of accessible archives for maintaining identity, culture, and kinship ties, particularly among young people. By leveraging technology, community-based digital archives can engage youth through storytelling, language education, and cultural programs. With the growing digital economy, strategic support from government and institutions is essential for managing these archives and ensuring cultural rights are upheld, fostering inclusive digital participation.

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Digital Archives and Community Collecting

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  1. Digital Archives and Community Collecting Lyndon Ormond-Parker Centre for Health and Society Centre for Cultural Materials ConservationThe University of Melbourne

  2. Historical Archives

  3. Importance of Access to Archives • Identity and Culture • Maintain and Use Language • Maintain Kinship Ties • Relationship to Land and Waters

  4. Local Archives • Aboriginal Art Centre • Language and Cultural Centres • Land Councils and Native Title Bodies • Libraries and Museums • Historical Societies • Indigenous Knowledge Centres (Digital Archives)

  5. Digital Archives • The Ara Iritija Project • Northern Territory Libraries (Community Stories) • The Mulka Project (Yolngu Archive & Production)

  6. Australia’s Digital Economy Elements of a Successful Digital Economy • Government: lays the foundations for Australia's digital infrastructure • Government: facilitates innovation • Government: sets conducive regulatory frameworks • Industry: demonstrates business digital confidence and builds digital skills • Industry: adopts smarter use of technology to improve our environmental sustainability • Industry: develops sustainable online content models • Community: enjoys digital confidence and media literacy • Community: experiences inclusive digital participation • Community: benefits from online engagement

  7. Issues for Digital Archives • Technology changes and format shifting • Physical threats to local collections • Lack of IT Expertise • Financial constraints • Data Loss

  8. Issues for Physical Archives • Maintain archives in regional and remote locations • Preservation and storage • Technical support and training • Expertise in archiving

  9. Growing Up Digital • Two thirds under 30 • 49% aged under 20 years • over two-thirds (68%) of Indigenous people lived outside the major cities, • 44% living in regional areas and • 24% living in remote • (Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics)

  10. Preservation of physical and digital archive collections for the intergenerational transference of knowledge The digital economy offers relevance and importance for a growing up digital Indigenous population Community based digital archives provide a range of cultural and social programs for engaging young people IT and mobile technologies are an important delivery platform for content creation, distribution, viewing and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge Emerging Issues

  11. Areas of Support • A National body to support local community sector • Specific government policy and funding to ensure; • Management of physical and digital archives • Target young people for engagement in the IT sector • Support the collection, creation and delivery of content • Support institutions to return digital archives – film photos, manuscripts • Cultural rights of Indigenous Australians are incorporated into the development of the digital economy

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