Towards Guidelines and Practices in Australian Indigenous Digital Collections

Prof Martin Nakata, Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning & Chair of Australian Indigenous, UTS, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Public Collecting Institutions traverse complex terrains in the digital environment when dealing with Indigenous collections, copyright and Intellectual property regimes, and Indigenous people’s needs and concerns. The need for consistent standards and protocols for digital repositories across the Collections sector is now urgent. Prof Nakata will speak to these issues in his Keynote Address, and report findings of a research collaboration with three Australian State Libraries into potential standards and protocols for progressing consistent digitisation practices with Indigenous materials in public institutions.