Anna Naruta-Moya, PhDMuseum of Indian Arts and Culture

University of New Mexico

Society of American Archivists Research ForumWashington, DCAugust 14, 2018

#SAA18@NativeDocs@AnnaNaruta

Effective Online Access to Historic Documents: The

Indigenous Digital ArchiveToolkit

The Indigenous Digital ArchiveCollaborative project of

State of New Mexico's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture(MIAC)

NM State Library Tribal Libraries Program Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, jointly run by all 19 Pueblo

Tribes

Funded by * IMLS National Leadership Grant(2017-9)* Knight Foundation Prototyping Grant

Rolling launch http://IndigenousDigitalArchive.org

Twitter: @NativeDocs

1) An online resource hosted by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture to provide effective access to historic government documents related to the early US government boarding schools and Native rights to land and water

The Indigenous Digital Archive is

Santa Fe, New Mexico

World Café session,

constituents asked for:

• More archives education

• More online accessibility

Project originated from tribal constituents expressing need

Tribal Libraries ProgramNew Mexico State Library

Partnerships to: • Spread training• Create stronger links in

communities to institutional resources

Attended Santa Fe Indian Industrial Schoolfrom age 5 (in 1909) to age 18 (in 1922)

Feliciana Tapia

The Indigenous Digital Archive is also

1)2) A toolkit for an opensource repository software (such as Omeka-S) to take advantage of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Open Annotationstandards to allow automated and community-sourced tagging of scanned documents, adding comments, and other socially-oriented functionality

Online Collaboration

Natural Language Processing

Annotate

Make Collections Share & Discuss

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Interest in researching Government Indian Boarding School records

• To understand impacts on communities today

To interpret the records with the benefit of perspective of elders and others who attended or who have stories from their parents or grandparents

CC BY Einar E.

Department of War

Territorial GovernmentBureau of Indian Affairs

Individual, Family, and Community Experience

US Geological Survey

Department of Veterans Affairs

Government Boarding Schools

Secretary of Indian AffairsSmithsonian Institution; other researchers & collectors

US Senate Indian Claims Commission

Bureau of Land Management

Native

IIIF Model:

Large series can be mass digitized, from microfilm or originals

Automated (Natural Language Processing) tagging plus crowdsourced and managed tagging and annotation help create effective navigation

Child labor: students carted 1400 tons of coal, 7000 cubic feet of cement

Emerging Partnerships

2018-9 IDA Fellows

http://IndigenousDigitalArchive.org

Indigenous Digital Archive

@NativeDocs@AnnaNaruta