Digital Collections

Lesk, Michael. 2005, Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd edition. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Chapter twelve is discussing some important cultural issues when it comes to digitizing objects.  I found what museums are facing to be complex.   Chapter twelve (12.3 Multicultural Issues, p 328) discusses religious or cultural objects museums must return to specific Native American Indian tribes per [...]

As I was perusing my previous points, I realized it has been a while since I reflected on thte digital collections class and paper.  Intially, I thought I would not find much information with regard to American Indian tribes digitizing their archives.   After perusing sites and talking to various individuals, there are many worthwhile endeavors [...]

From my research, tribes are unlike libraries in they have an entire economic and social system impacting funding for digital collection initiatives.   From the various programs and resources based on federal resources which limits use to intratribal political priorities, digital collections may fall by the wayside.   The importance of economics for the tribe’s survival and increasing health costs [...]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2301063736330495553 (accessed November 3, 2008). This is a good effort by high school students in documenting Native American Indian language loss.   The title is “When it’s gone, it’s gone”.  Although there have been efforts to revive and teach the language in various formats over the last ten to fifteen years, there is still enormous work required [...]

One of my classmates is compiling a digital collection of her life utilizing various pictures.   As I continue to research obstacles for indigenous cultures in digitizing their archives, I came upon a change in the Absentee Shawnee Tribe with regard to pictures of ones life.   (I am a full blooded member of this tribe.)   I [...]