Involving Source Communities in the Digitization and Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge

摘要: The digital era has transformed the ways people share information and preserve knowledge for future. Increasingly, Web 2.0 technologies have been used participatory practices aimed at constructing cultural heritage knowledge. Memory institutions, including libraries museums become keen on opportunities to engage with potential partners collaborators. For such construction of be successful however, some underlying contradictions between traditional documentary that privilege ‘expert knowledge’ distributed social emphasize allowance multiple (at times contradictory) perspectives need resolved. This interpretive qualitative study examines values challenges collaborating communities who are originators, owners and/or guardians beliefs, expressions other artifacts bear indigenous a group, as well recognized by hold Data was collected through 27 semi-structured interviews in Ghana.