This presentation considers protocol-based digital access management to Ajamurnda, a collection and access system for language and cultural items of the Indigenous Anindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt, Australia. Ajamurnda will be a ‘living’ collection facilitating and regulating access and circulation of resources, based around protocol – consideration of the personal, communal, cultural, property and privacy interests of individuals, families and other culturally-relevant groupings. In the specific, highly traditional context of Groote Eylandt, standard regulation of access using accounts and passwords are ineffective. Ajamurnda will instead use a ‘sanctions before barriers’ strategy based on the fact that in such Aboriginal communities, acquiring and holding knowledge has consequences, and that these consequences will be best known by users themselves, and act as constraints on choice. For those of us seeking to implement a fully authentic implementation of protocol, such a ‘sanctions before barriers’ approach is probably the only way that access protocol can be fully informed, nuanced, authentic, appropriate to, and responsive to dynamics of change in the community.
@InProceedings{NATHAN18.19, author = {David Nathan}, title = {Beyond Protocol: Indigenous Knowledge Resource Circulation in the Digital Age}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Claudia Soria and Laurent Besacier and Laurette Pretorius}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-22-1}, language = {english} }
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