Hybrid Event: “Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Archives”

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Hybrid Event: “Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Archives”

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Event schedule and format subject to change, please check The Baldy Center event website for updates and registration: http://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/calendar.html

DSSN Symposium: “Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Archives”
Co-Sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy


May 10, 2022
509 O'Brian Hall; 1:00pm-4:00pm
This lecture will be in person and over Zoom.

Register here: https://booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/8766357
Contact: Stacy Snyder, ssperson@buffalo.edu


In recent decades, digital technologies for information dissemination have vastly altered the ways in which materials can be accessed by diverse users. For resources with archival value, in particular, their digital surrogates can now be made available globally via the Web at low cost, thus removing barriers to accessibility that previously existed when their only versions were located in a physical archive. At the same time, it is important to recognize that dominant models of digital accessibility are, both implicitly and explicitly, based around a specific, culturally contingent set of values around the control of data that are largely informed by Western notions of intellectual property. These foreground ownership of data by individual creators and the economic value associated with being able to make copies of the data. They also operate on the assumption that universal access to data is generally desirable, at least for those with the ability to pay for it.

However, such assumptions do not apply in many contexts, especially in Indigenous ones where communal notions of ownership of intellectual property will often take precedence over individual rights and where access to information may be regulated by cultural conventions that fall outside the protections associated with Western intellectual property laws, in particular those associated with copyright. The goal of this symposium is to address these concerns by bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with an interest in social and technical systems for managing access to, and disseminating, digital materials documenting Indigenous cultural and linguistic practices in the local region and beyond.

This will be a hybrid event. The in-person venue will be the Cellino & Barnes Conference Room, 509 O'Brian Hall, North Campus.
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
511 O'Brian Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu
http://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter.html
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