OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series talk

We Have Never Been Neutral"

Transcript

1. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN NEUTRAL: SEARCH, DISCOVERY, AND THE POLITICS OF ACCESS Dr. Kim Christen | Director, Digital Technology and Culture Program Co-Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation Washington State University | @mukurtu Water Protector at Standing Rock, November 2016, www.nodal.life.com
6. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
14. “Indian appropriation is the process by which the U.S. legal system has historically facilitated and normalized the taking of all things Indian for other use', from lands to sacred objects, and bodies and identities.” -Angela Riley 2016
16. “libraries also fail to achieve any mythical state of neutrality because we contribute to bias and inequality in scholarship, and publishing, and information access. - Chris Bourg 2015
19. find an ancestor. gain a nation.
22. access = accountability discovery = reciprocity search = engagements
23. Leanne Campbell, Coeur d’Alene, tule mat weaving demonstration
32. mukurtu: ’a safe keeping place’ dilly bag South Australian Museum
37. alternatives to copyright Creative Commons
39. Mukurtu’s Three C’s communities, cultural protocols, and categories
40. communities cultural protocols the ‘who’ the ‘how’ categories the ‘what’
49. collaborative curation
57. Ancestral Voices Project Collaboration between the Passamaquoddy Nation, the Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Washington State University and New York University
59. archeophone and sonic restoration, Library of Congress
61. The ‘Traders Song’ recorded March 18, 1890, Passamaquoddy tribe -Newell Josephs , Calais Maine
65. MARC record American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Bibliographic Record #18989315
67. Passamaquoddy TK Labels in Mukurtu CMS
68. Zig Jackson “Shooting Them, Shooting Us”
69. Memorandums of Understanding Add Multiple Voices Redefine Access Policies TK Labels for public domain material
70. kachristen@wsu.edu @mukurtu