Case Study: Yirrkala School Literature Production Centre Digitisation Project (Summer School 2025)

The Indigenous Data Network shares a case study outlining collaboration to help preserve and document data held by the Yirrkala Literature Production Centre in the Northern Territory.

Presenters
Kristen Smith (University of Melbourne)
Levi Murray (University of Melbourne)

Key Moments
00:00:01 Introduction
00:01:00 Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities Project
00:09:00 Yirrikala School: Literature Production Centre
00:16:23 Bilingual Education in the NT
00:17:43 Case study activities
00:22:04 Geographical and environmental activities
00:29:53 Technical complexities
00:30:33 Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property
00:33:08 Yolŋu Data Governance framework
00:34:23 Relationship with community, long term nature of project

This case study was presented at the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2025, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia 4-6 February 2025. The Summer School empowers participants with practical knowledge, helps them build digital skills, and inspires new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous fields of study. Participants collaborated in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts.

Recorded: 05/02/2025

Further ARDC resources
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons - https://ardc.edu.au/hass-and-indigeno...
Resources for HASS and Indigenous research - https://ardc.edu.au/researcher/accele...

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