Mukurtu Content Management System (CMS) - Free to use data management system
Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is a free, mobile, and open-source content management system built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage. This grassroots platform is designed to support communities in sharing and preserving their stories, knowledge, and media in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. Mukurtu prioritizes community control, customizable cultural protocols, and respectful access settings to help ensure that digital heritage is shared on the community’s own terms.
Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is a free, mobile, and open-source content management system built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage. This grassroots platform is designed to support communities in sharing and preserving their stories, knowledge, and media in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. Mukurtu prioritizes community control, customizable cultural protocols, and respectful access settings to help ensure that digital heritage is shared on the community’s own terms.
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Indigenous Research Engagement Guide
The Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) has developed an Indigenous (Inuit, Métis, and First Nation) Engagement Guide (The Guide or Guide) to facilitate efforts toward respectful and meaningful engagement with Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations (Indigenous groups). This initiative recognizes and seeks to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action, Education for Reconciliation, calls 62: ii (TRC 2015), The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans, 2nd Edition: Chapter 9 (TCPS 2 2018) and aspires to align with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP 2008).
The Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) has developed an Indigenous (Inuit, Métis, and First Nation) Engagement Guide (The Guide or Guide) to facilitate efforts toward respectful and meaningful engagement with Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations (Indigenous groups). This initiative recognizes and seeks to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action, Education for Reconciliation, calls 62: ii (TRC 2015), The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans, 2nd Edition: Chapter 9 (TCPS 2 2018) and aspires to align with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP 2008).
Data Governance and Management Toolkit
This Toolkit has been created by and for Self-Governing Indigenous Governments (SGIGs). While some of the content is specific to this context, much of it will be useful for other Indigenous governments and organizations as well.
The toolkit includes resources such as, but not limited to:
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Data Governance and Management Toolkit
*One featured component of this toolkit is a Research Agreement Template, which communities may refer to, adapt, or use to establish clear terms with research partners. The template can be found in Appendix 1, starting on page 57 of the following file: Protocol_FN-Research-Protocol-in-Labrador-and-Quebec (1)
This Toolkit has been created by and for Self-Governing Indigenous Governments (SGIGs). While some of the content is specific to this context, much of it will be useful for other Indigenous governments and organizations as well.
The toolkit includes resources such as, but not limited to:
- Introduction to Information Governance & Management
- Templates for developing contracts and agreements (MOUs, disclaimers, research agreements etc.)*
- Data quality and privacy
- Acquiring and working with data
- Capacity building supports
Explore the toolkit:
Data Governance and Management Toolkit
*One featured component of this toolkit is a Research Agreement Template, which communities may refer to, adapt, or use to establish clear terms with research partners. The template can be found in Appendix 1, starting on page 57 of the following file: Protocol_FN-Research-Protocol-in-Labrador-and-Quebec (1)
Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan provides potential applicants and grant holders with guidance on how to prepare a data management plan (DMP).
The guide includes:
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Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan provides potential applicants and grant holders with guidance on how to prepare a data management plan (DMP).
The guide includes:
- Key questions to consider when preparing a DMP
- A sample data management plan template
- Considerations related to Indigenous research data
- Information about institutional supports, including free to use training resources
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Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: How Researchers can Empower Data Governance
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In this seminar talk, Dr. Lydia Jennings discusses what constitutes Indigenous data, how to apply an Indigenous data sovereignty framework to environmental research, examples of Indigenous data governance, Tribal Nations’ leading the scientific inquiry process, and how environmental scientists can co-create with Indigenous communities to answer community driven research questions.
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The CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance
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The current shift to big data, open science, and open data does not fully engage with Indigenous Peoples rights and interests. Over the past five years, Indigenous data sovereignty has become a movement to increase both Indigenous access to Indigenous data and Indigenous leadership within data governance. Given that most Indigenous data are held by non-Indigenous governments, institutions, and agencies, increasing Indigenous Peoples participation in data governance activities is central to realizing Indigenous data sovereignty. How can organizations like CGIAR (1) support the creation of new institutional frameworks that center the terms of Indigenous communities around research and data partnerships and (2) enact policy and practice changes that protect and strengthen Indigenous Peoples’ relationships with their data, information, and knowledge?
SPEAKERS Dr. Stephanie Russo Carroll - Assistant Professor and Associate Director at the University of Arizona Talia Anderson - PhD student at the University of Arizona |
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DataStream:
Dive into data - Excel tips and tricks for working with data Improve your Excel skills for working with data in this webinar with DataStream's Water Data Specialist, Mary Kruk. Topics that will be covered include data cleaning, pivot tables, graphing and general statistics. This webinar is for those with beginner to intermediate knowledge of Excel who want to get more out of their water quality data. |
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Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS):
Community Ice Thickness Data Collection Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is starting a community ice thickness data collection project to help regional Great Lakes ice models. A webinar will be hosted on Thursday, February 6 at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT to provide an overview of the proposed project, current ice modeling work and gaps, and answer questions from interested participants. If you know of anyone who ice fishes or does other forms of ice recreation on the Great Lakes proper and may be interested in being part of this project, please share this information and link to the webinar stream.
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty of Indigenous People's Earth Observations
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Indigenous data sovereignty refers to the right of Indigenous peoples to control the collection, ownership and application of data about themselves, their communities, lands, territories and waters. In Earth sciences, the observations of Indigenous Peoples represent an important source of information to understand natural phenomena but the ability of indigenous peoples, communities and nations to steward and control data that is created with or about themselves, has been mismanaged and, sometimes, overlooked. In this webinar we will explore cases from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples on how to better recognize the inherent rights to their knowledges. Panelists will deepen our understanding on the ethical use of data to advance the collective well-being and self-determination of Indigenous groups and to redefine indigenous roles to research. Some challenges and key principles will be explored including the collective benefit and authority control of the data, ethics, responsibility and accountability.
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