{"id":925,"date":"2025-06-18T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/discovering-indigenous-records-leveraging-technology-for-reconciliation-based-approaches-in-archival-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:31:41","slug":"discovering-indigenous-records-leveraging-technology-for-reconciliation-based-approaches-in-archival-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/discovering-indigenous-records-leveraging-technology-for-reconciliation-based-approaches-in-archival-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering Indigenous Records: Leveraging Technology for Reconciliation-Based Approaches in Archival Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This presentation addresses the third thematic axis of the conference:&nbsp;<em>Experiences of adaptation and innovation in archives<\/em>. It focuses on a project aimed at making Indigenous-related content more accessible within the University of Alberta Archives. Using various tools\u2014including Local Contexts labels, the Whisper automatic speech recognition system, and reparative descriptions\u2014I will share preliminary results from this ongoing project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many documents in the holdings of the University of Alberta Archives (UAA) contain content related to Indigenous peoples. However, they are difficult\u2014if not impossible\u2014to locate. Most of these records were created by university departments and offices, or by researchers and faculty studying Indigenous communities. These records and their descriptions often contain derogatory or offensive language. Indigenous individuals in these documents are frequently unnamed or not mentioned at all, making it extremely difficult to search for specific communities or individuals.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghaddar and Caswell emphasize that Western colonialism and imperialism continue to shape archival practice, noting \u201cthe need to reflect on the structure and content of the records, collections, and archives we steward, the principles we uphold, and our intellectual and professional identities\u201d (p. 74). This project is one of UAA\u2019s responses to the Calls to Action of Canada\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration of the International Council on Archives, and the Canadian Archivists\u2019 Reconciliation Framework. It represents a small step in our commitment to reconciliation-based archival practice. This presentation will offer an example of how innovative technology can be leveraged to advance this work.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Confer\u00e8ncia de Maryna Chernyavska (Univ. d&#039;Alberta)\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7j2g65LRUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation addresses the third thematic axis of the conference:&nbsp;Experiences of adaptation and innovation in archives. 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Using various tools\u2014including Local Contexts labels, the Whisper automatic speech recognition system, and reparative descriptions\u2014I will share preliminary results from this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3028,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/jornadas-cau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}