Local Contexts
@localcontexts.bsky.social
Grounding Indigenous rights - Supporting Indigenous knowledge & data sovereignty - Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels & Notices
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📣 We are pleased to share an update from our partner @localcontexts.bsky.social.
📌 Researcher accounts in the Local Contexts Hub can now be added to #ORCID records.
Read more on the blog by @shawnasadler.bsky.social: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9mp
#Researchsky #LocalContexts
📌 Researcher accounts in the Local Contexts Hub can now be added to #ORCID records.
Read more on the blog by @shawnasadler.bsky.social: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9mp
#Researchsky #LocalContexts
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📣 We are pleased to share an update from our partner @localcontexts.bsky.social.
📌 Researcher accounts in the Local Contexts Hub can now be added to #ORCID records.
Read more on the blog by @shawnasadler.bsky.social: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9mp
#Researchsky #LocalContexts
📌 Researcher accounts in the Local Contexts Hub can now be added to #ORCID records.
Read more on the blog by @shawnasadler.bsky.social: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9mp
#Researchsky #LocalContexts
Dr. Lydia Jennings @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social (Pascua Yaqui Tribe (Yoeme) and Huichol (Wixáritari)) is an environmental soil scientist with a vast number of research projects.
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dr. Lydia Jennings @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social (Pascua Yaqui Tribe (Yoeme) and Huichol (Wixáritari)) is an environmental soil scientist with a vast number of research projects.
On this #GivingTuesday, we are excited to begin accepting donations to sustain our work & directly support Indigenous communities to uphold their sovereignty. Through your donations, the Local Contexts Label Development Fund provides capacity support for Indigenous communities.
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
On this #GivingTuesday, we are excited to begin accepting donations to sustain our work & directly support Indigenous communities to uphold their sovereignty. Through your donations, the Local Contexts Label Development Fund provides capacity support for Indigenous communities.
Among her many roles, Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl (Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne ki Wairau) serves on Rūnaka Executive Committee of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, as Associate Professor & Dean at the University of Otago, & Local Contexts Councilor Community Member.
💬: Local Contexts Summit Aotearoa (November 2023)
💬: Local Contexts Summit Aotearoa (November 2023)
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Among her many roles, Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl (Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne ki Wairau) serves on Rūnaka Executive Committee of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, as Associate Professor & Dean at the University of Otago, & Local Contexts Councilor Community Member.
💬: Local Contexts Summit Aotearoa (November 2023)
💬: Local Contexts Summit Aotearoa (November 2023)
41 Indigenous communities around the world are using the Local Contexts Labels to safeguard their culture, data, and rights. Communities’ use of Labels clearly defines the provenance, protocols, and permissions around their materials and knowledge, making their authority and rights clear.
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
41 Indigenous communities around the world are using the Local Contexts Labels to safeguard their culture, data, and rights. Communities’ use of Labels clearly defines the provenance, protocols, and permissions around their materials and knowledge, making their authority and rights clear.
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@ncig2013.bsky.social @indigenousdatalab.bsky.social @scbegonias.bsky.social @mediaindigena.bsky.social NativeBio, Indigenous Data Alliance, US Indigenous Sovereignty Network, GIDA and @localcontexts.bsky.social have been saying all of this since 2009. www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-nove...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – For all its promise, AI is a potential threat to culture » Native America Calling
On the cusp of what could be a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some researchers are urging caution and the need for deliberate controls to keep the developing technology from robbing Indigeno...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@ncig2013.bsky.social @indigenousdatalab.bsky.social @scbegonias.bsky.social @mediaindigena.bsky.social NativeBio, Indigenous Data Alliance, US Indigenous Sovereignty Network, GIDA and @localcontexts.bsky.social have been saying all of this since 2009. www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-nove...
Local Contexts is connected with Indigenous communities, institutions, researchers, and integration partners around the world.
For the past 15 years, our relationships have helped us to build out the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as practical tools for supporting Indigenous rights.
For the past 15 years, our relationships have helped us to build out the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as practical tools for supporting Indigenous rights.
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Local Contexts is connected with Indigenous communities, institutions, researchers, and integration partners around the world.
For the past 15 years, our relationships have helped us to build out the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as practical tools for supporting Indigenous rights.
For the past 15 years, our relationships have helped us to build out the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as practical tools for supporting Indigenous rights.
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⚡The GBIF Indigenous Data Governance task group led by
@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty.
Contribute to the survey! 🔗
gbif.link/Indigenous-d...
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@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty.
Contribute to the survey! 🔗
gbif.link/Indigenous-d...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
⚡The GBIF Indigenous Data Governance task group led by
@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty.
Contribute to the survey! 🔗
gbif.link/Indigenous-d...
@localcontexts.bsky.social
@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty.
Contribute to the survey! 🔗
gbif.link/Indigenous-d...
@localcontexts.bsky.social
The newly adopted IEEE Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data is the first-ever international standard that calls for “appropriate disclosure of Indigenous peoples’ relationships and/or links to all data.” 🔥#IDSov
Read more: nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...
Read more: nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...
U of A, NYU and Harvard experts lead process to codify world’s first global standard on Indigenous Peoples’ data
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The newly adopted IEEE Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data is the first-ever international standard that calls for “appropriate disclosure of Indigenous peoples’ relationships and/or links to all data.” 🔥#IDSov
Read more: nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...
Read more: nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...
The Local Contexts team is excited to share a series of short videos that introduce the Local Contexts Hub and how you use it to apply Labels and Notices. Each video is 1-5 min & is captioned in English.
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Local Contexts Hub Tutorials - YouTube
The Local Contexts Hub (https://localcontextshub.org/) is a website that facilitates the use of the Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labe...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Local Contexts team is excited to share a series of short videos that introduce the Local Contexts Hub and how you use it to apply Labels and Notices. Each video is 1-5 min & is captioned in English.
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
➡️ See you at #NEMA2025? Next week, Local Contexts will join representatives from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Wilson Museum, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, & UMass Amherst as part of a session at the New England Museum Association annual conference. nemanet.org/page/Confere...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
➡️ See you at #NEMA2025? Next week, Local Contexts will join representatives from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Wilson Museum, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, & UMass Amherst as part of a session at the New England Museum Association annual conference. nemanet.org/page/Confere...
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Overflowing room for our session on Indigenous data governance and the @localcontexts.bsky.social labeling tools. People are eager to learn tools to support Indigenous communities governance of their data #LivingData2025
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Overflowing room for our session on Indigenous data governance and the @localcontexts.bsky.social labeling tools. People are eager to learn tools to support Indigenous communities governance of their data #LivingData2025
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"It is clear that the #biodiversity data community is ready to engage on this topic and genuinely interested to learn more. Thank you to the @gbif.org #Indigenous Data Task Force and @localcontexts.bsky.social for their leadership in this space." - Katie Jones on #LivingData2025 in Bogotá
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"It is clear that the #biodiversity data community is ready to engage on this topic and genuinely interested to learn more. Thank you to the @gbif.org #Indigenous Data Task Force and @localcontexts.bsky.social for their leadership in this space." - Katie Jones on #LivingData2025 in Bogotá
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🔶 For National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’re happy to spotlight the RavenSpace project (@ubcpress.bsky.social)
📚 By leveraging digital technologies, the editorial process of this platform adapts to indigenous modes of knowledge !
📌 Learn more: shorturl.at/vObqX
📚 By leveraging digital technologies, the editorial process of this platform adapts to indigenous modes of knowledge !
📌 Learn more: shorturl.at/vObqX
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🔶 For National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’re happy to spotlight the RavenSpace project (@ubcpress.bsky.social)
📚 By leveraging digital technologies, the editorial process of this platform adapts to indigenous modes of knowledge !
📌 Learn more: shorturl.at/vObqX
📚 By leveraging digital technologies, the editorial process of this platform adapts to indigenous modes of knowledge !
📌 Learn more: shorturl.at/vObqX
Part of this week's Hub update was an expansion of the Hub’s connection to @orcid.org. Researchers can now connect their Local Contexts account to their ORCID record as an external ID. Learn how to utilize this update in our blog:
localcontexts.org/october-2025...
localcontexts.org/october-2025...
October 2025 Minor Hub Updates – Local Contexts
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October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Part of this week's Hub update was an expansion of the Hub’s connection to @orcid.org. Researchers can now connect their Local Contexts account to their ORCID record as an external ID. Learn how to utilize this update in our blog:
localcontexts.org/october-2025...
localcontexts.org/october-2025...
The Local Contexts Hub will undergo scheduled service on October 1 UTC. The Hub will be unavailable during the update, which will introduce new features for the ORCID connection for researcher accounts, Project contributors, & Project identifiers. localcontexts.org/october-2025...
October 2025 Minor Hub Updates – Local Contexts
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September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Local Contexts Hub will undergo scheduled service on October 1 UTC. The Hub will be unavailable during the update, which will introduce new features for the ORCID connection for researcher accounts, Project contributors, & Project identifiers. localcontexts.org/october-2025...
Reminder: Happening tomorrow! #ClimateWeek #ClimateWeekNYC
Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL, & MOTH at NYU are excited to host the panel “Living Data, Living Lands: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Biodiversity Monitoring” at Climate Week on Sept 23. RSVP: forms.gle/X1PjNd5V3va6...
Local Contexts - Climate Week RSVP
Biodiversity is in decline, yet most data remains extractive and disconnected from the communities it comes from. At 2025 NYC Climate Week, we reimagine this cycle with Indigenous-led biodiversity dat...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reminder: Happening tomorrow! #ClimateWeek #ClimateWeekNYC
We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...
Omeka certified as first Integration Partner – Local Contexts
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September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...
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Have you ever thought about what Tribal derived data is and the big questions surrounding its use? youtu.be/twp6lABlTM8?...
#DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #videoseries #TribalSovereignty #Research
#DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #videoseries #TribalSovereignty #Research
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Have you ever thought about what Tribal derived data is and the big questions surrounding its use? youtu.be/twp6lABlTM8?...
#DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #videoseries #TribalSovereignty #Research
#DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #videoseries #TribalSovereignty #Research
Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL, & MOTH at NYU are excited to host the panel “Living Data, Living Lands: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Biodiversity Monitoring” at Climate Week on Sept 23. RSVP: forms.gle/X1PjNd5V3va6...
Local Contexts - Climate Week RSVP
Biodiversity is in decline, yet most data remains extractive and disconnected from the communities it comes from. At 2025 NYC Climate Week, we reimagine this cycle with Indigenous-led biodiversity dat...
forms.gle
September 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL, & MOTH at NYU are excited to host the panel “Living Data, Living Lands: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Biodiversity Monitoring” at Climate Week on Sept 23. RSVP: forms.gle/X1PjNd5V3va6...
We are pleased to share that Hop Hopkins @hop1972.bsky.social (he/him) has joined Local Contexts as our Executive Director. Hop is a social movement strategist and scholar who has been at the forefront of social justice campaigns for over 25 years. Read more: localcontexts.org/press-releas...
September 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We are pleased to share that Hop Hopkins @hop1972.bsky.social (he/him) has joined Local Contexts as our Executive Director. Hop is a social movement strategist and scholar who has been at the forefront of social justice campaigns for over 25 years. Read more: localcontexts.org/press-releas...
❓Do you have questions about Local Contexts or using the Hub? Our next information and Hub sessions have been scheduled for September, November, and December! More info & sign-up on our website. localcontexts.org/events/info-...
Info and Hub Demo Sessions – Local Contexts
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August 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
❓Do you have questions about Local Contexts or using the Hub? Our next information and Hub sessions have been scheduled for September, November, and December! More info & sign-up on our website. localcontexts.org/events/info-...
Local Contexts is thrilled to have @umasslibraries.bsky.social join as a Hub Subscriber! With this subscription, UMass is leading the way for transformational practice that connects Indigenous cultural authority to existing collections & ongoing research. www.library.umass.edu/news/umass-a...
UMass Amherst Libraries Join Local Contexts as Subscriber
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August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Local Contexts is thrilled to have @umasslibraries.bsky.social join as a Hub Subscriber! With this subscription, UMass is leading the way for transformational practice that connects Indigenous cultural authority to existing collections & ongoing research. www.library.umass.edu/news/umass-a...
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There are billions of #biodiversity observations worldwide 🌱🐞. Yet, almost none of them have associated #IndigenousDataSovereignty rights assigned to the data. I'm looking forward to participating in this upcoming panel at #ClimateWeekNYC on these issues. RSVP to join: lnkd.in/g6zb_TXr
August 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There are billions of #biodiversity observations worldwide 🌱🐞. Yet, almost none of them have associated #IndigenousDataSovereignty rights assigned to the data. I'm looking forward to participating in this upcoming panel at #ClimateWeekNYC on these issues. RSVP to join: lnkd.in/g6zb_TXr
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NYC 2025 Climate week! Excited to be there in the action and for this session hosted by @localcontexts.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
NYC 2025 Climate week! Excited to be there in the action and for this session hosted by @localcontexts.bsky.social