[LINK] Capturing expert knowledge in Arnhem Land, Canberra, 15 June 2007

[Tom Worthington]

Recommended:

>Please join us for the next in our Digital Culture series of talks:
>
>Bidwern: capturing expert knowledge
>
>Most scientific research is based on examining objects from a 
>specific perspective. The danger in this approach is that some 
>information, which might be considered non-relevant to the specific 
>discipline, can be omitted. Researchers are good at capturing data 
>and metadata in their field, but they might unwittingly neglect 
>other usable data.
>
>Bidwern is a tool that discovers and captures knowledge by using 
>experts' field knowledge. It provides a way of bringing together 
>research data from various sources and integrating them under one 
>discovery system via implicit or explicit relationships.
>
>Users can tag objects with appropriate metadata, for example 
>Indigenous knowledge (ecoterms), language, mythology or geographic 
>location, to trace and discover relationships. Bidwern uses standard 
>metadata capture and access tools that make archiving the information easy.
>
>Time: 12.30 to 13.30
>Date: Friday, 15 June 2007
>Venue: Library Theatre
>Entry: Free
>Speakers: Kim Mackenzie and Leo Monus
>Introduced by Colin Webb, Director Web Archiving & Digital 
>Preservation Branch,
>National Library of Australia
>
>This talk is open to the public.

More on the project from <http://www.anu.edu.au/bidwern/>:


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  Bidwern is the name of an ARC eResearch Project funded through 
2005-6 that will develop processes and tools to manage digital data 
associated with multidisciplinary projects in remote locations in 
Northern Australia.

     A pilot project will use a selection of visual and audio data 
created by social and environmental scientists working with 
Indigenous communities on a major land management project across the 
western Arnhem Land Plateau.

     The key innovations of the research will be to develop new 
methods for cataloging and preparing digital data for uploading to 
the DSpace digital repository at the Australian National University. 
Once in the repository, the data will be preserved for long term 
access by researchers and Indigenous communities in the western 
Arnhem Land Plateau.
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ps: See also my "Ten Canoes: From Samoa to Arafura Swamp" 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/12/ten-canoes-from-samoa-to-arafura-swamp.html>.



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