Indigenous digital archiving wananga - October 22 & 23 - New Plymouth
Te Paerangi National Services & Te Reo o Taranaki invite you to be part of a Mukurtu digital archive site building and community engagement workshop in New Plymouth, October 22 - 23.
Centre for Digital Archaeology (CoDA) developers Michael Ashley and Kelley Shanahan are in Australasia next month to train tribal communities in using Mukurtu 2.0 digital archiving software and its mobile application, Mukurtu mobile. For two years, Te Reo o Taranaki has been working with the CoDA team to develop a digital archive for Te Pūtē Routiriata o Taranaki. Michael and Kelley will visit New Plymouth to run a two-day workshop for iwi, hapū & whānau around Aotearoa working on digital archiving projects. The first part of day one (9.30am - 1pm, Thursday 22nd) is a seminar-style walk through of the Mukurtu programme designed to answer questions on how it can serve community digital archiving initiatives. The second part of day one (2pm - 4pm) offers an introduction to Mukurtu mobile. There will be time at the end of this session to talk one-on-one with Michael & Kelley about individual projects. Day one is open to anyone and costs $25+GST including lunch. Day two (9am - 5pm, Friday 23rd) is an intensive site-building workshop and numbers are limited. This session is hands-on and covers site building, working with different types of media (images, audio visual, documents), digitisation workflows, setting up security protocols and communities, importing your archives, Mukurtu hosting and team training options. The cost for day two is $50+GST including lunch. A small number of subsidised places are available for students, and Te Paerangi’s travel subsidy grant is open for applications from iwi and hapū organisations. Interested? Fill out the contact form below or email Te Reo o Taranaki [email protected] to reserve your place. Please indicate the day/s you wish to attend, and the number of people coming from your organisation. Both sessions are being held at the Western Institute of Technology campus in New Plymouth. |
What is Mukurtu?Mukurtu is an open source content management system designed to help indigenous communities securely store and manage digital heritage and traditional knowledge. It allows users to set cultural protocols around sharing and access, and can serve as a secure online hub for engaging whānau, hapū and iwi with taonga tuku iho. The Centre for Digital Archaeology (CoDA) team can advise on hosting, training and service options which enable iwi, whānau & hapū to own & independently manage their digital data.
Who is using Mukurtu software?Many indigenous communities around the world are using Mukurtu software to manage their tribal archives. Mukurtu (which means dilly bag, or safe keeping place) was initially developed alongside an Australian aboriginal community intent on managed access to sacred knowledge. A few examples of digital archives built on Mukurtu:
Te Reo o Taranaki - digital archiveThe Plateau Peoples' web portal |