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A need to manage and preserve indigenous knowledge is widely recognised. This is because it is understood to have the potential to promote sustainable development while also preserving indigenous peoples' rights, interests, and cultural identity. To understand the challenges of preserving and integrating digitized indigenous knowledge into open science platforms, a qualitative study was carried out. The study's theoretical underpinnings were based on the ideas that data must be discoverable, accessible, interoperable, and usable (FAIR) and that indigenous people have the power to control their data and the duty to disclose how it is used to advance and defend their rights and general well-being (CARE). The data were analysed thematically. The results demonstrate that indigenous knowledge is stored in separate databases at institutions in various countries. Additionally, there was no standardization in the organizations that were collecting the metadata. Because of a lack of metadata, the digital divide, and poor digital and indigenous librarian abilities, indigenous knowledge and data were practically inaccessible and unfindable. In the aftermath of the digital revolution and open research, this article brings a new viewpoint to the conversation about maintaining indigenous knowledge in sub-Saharan Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institutions that house Indigenous oral histories are often ignorant to the harm they perpetuate by treating these materials without rooting curatorial considerations in Indigenous approaches to knowledge. Issues of categorization, attribution, and access, among many others, often go unaddressed, causing serious harm to Indigenous peoples and their cultural resources. It is imperative that Western archives, libraries, and museums seek out alternatives to systems that perpetuate settler-colonialism, and work to place control of oral histories back in Indigenous hands. In this paper we present several considerations for working with Indigenous oral histories in Western archives, provide case studies that promote the ethical curation and sharing of Indigenous materials, and close with an overview of our current work to revitalize and redress a large collection of Native American oral histories presently housed at the University of Florida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In July 2020, The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries began work towards building a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization. One of the ways in which the organization set out to achieve this goal is through the digitization of materials by and about underrepresented and diverse peoples as well as the accurate representation of these individuals and groups in our metadata. This paper describes how the UTA Libraries’ Committee for Metadata and Digitization approached this charge through the creation of three subgroups. There is discussion of the committee’s goals and processes, an evaluation of progress toward meeting objectives, plans for sustaining this work, and a list of proposed strategies for other institutions interested in implementing similar efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a case study of privacy considerations in the adoption of a Research Information Management (RIM) System. RIM Systems collect, store, and link together metadata for research, service, grants, and teaching activities. Sometimes called Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) or Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR), these systems enable institutions to collect data from different internal systems and combine it with external information, providing a more holistic perspective on university activity. They provide a single, authoritative source of this data and allow for multiple stakeholders (i.e. faculty, administration, IT, HR, library, communications) to query, analyze, download, visualize, and share it. Oklahoma State University (OSU) recently adopted a RIM System, which is being implemented and supported by the OSU Libraries. A defining factor in the decision making process for product selection was how each system addressed issues around privacy. This case study will review some of the central data privacy considerations at play in the adoption of RIM Systems at both the institutional and individual level. This will include data sharing, ownership, retention, right to reuse data, data deletion obligations upon contract termination, user access to privacy policies, and user data controls. Questions to ask before adoption, key institutional players in discussions of privacy, and issues that may arise after adoption of a Research Information Management System will also be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]