Implementing CARE Principles: Indigenous Data Governance using the Local Contexts Hub

Local Contexts is a global non-profit that provides Indigenous communities with tools to reassert sovereignty and cultural authority in collections and data. In an increasingly complex legal, social, and cultural environment, the Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels offer Indigenous communities a way to add cultural and historical context and cultural authority to cultural heritage content in their own local digital heritage archives and in digital archives, libraries, museums and other digital repositories globally. Local Contexts supports institutions and researchers to disclose Indigenous rights and interests. Local Contexts will give an overview of the Traditional Knowledge Labels, Biocultural Labels, Notices, and Hub. The Local Contexts Hub enables the customization of Labels and the application of Notices directly to Indigenous data. The Hub works with already existing information/collections management systems and tools by generating Labels and Notices that can be added to already existing catalog and collections management systems.