Documenting Movements: Introducing Mukurtu CMS

  • March 27, 2023
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 CST
  • Loyola Hall, Conference Room 318
  • Dr. Elizabeth Hopwood, ehopwood@luc.edu
  • $0
  • ALL
     Open to the public.
  • https://www.luc.edu/ctsdh/
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    Mukurtu CMS, an open-source digital access platform, was designed for Indigenous communities to determine and enact cultural protocols in a digital space by managing the access and use of cultural materials and knowledge. What about for political action that Indigenous communities are engaged in and documenting right now? This presentation will provide an overview of Mukurtu CMS, and showcase a partnership between an academic institution and an Indigenous legal advocacy organization to create a portal for students and researchers to their video archive featuring documentation of environmental justice movements. Considerations include privacy and surveillance, ease of use for different purposes by stakeholders including students at tribal colleges, accessibility, and content governance. We will share the limitations for using Mukurtu for such a project and different technical models that projects can use for self-hosting or cloud hosting video content.
    Please register for this event presented by Margaret Heller and Greer Martin using this link: https://tinyurl.com/MukurtuCMS . Food will be provided.