Jointly Authored

Using digital technologies in doing Indigenous places in Australia
pdf 320K

Paper by Helen and Michael delivered at the European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology conference in Lausanne, August 2006 for a panel on “ICTs, Development and Indigenous Knowledges”. It tells the story of a particular Aboriginal performance/construction of places, and follows its journey into the digital world. The idea of place as performed in knowledge production is developed through a close look at the notion of development and its historically original primary term, envelopment. Envelopment can be seen as the most fundamental work of Yolngu place making, always prior to, and significantly circumscribing and enabling development on Yolngu terms.

Michael Christie

Draft of paper Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Desert Aboriginal Knowledge pdf 232K
submitted to Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Practices and Politics Edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart

draft of paper
Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions in Digital Environments pdf 760K

draft of paper
Words, Ontologies and Aboriginal databases pdf 476K

draft of paper
Fracturing the Skeleton of Principle: Australian Law,
Aboriginal Law, and Digital Technology pdf 220K

draft of paper
Aboriginal Knowledge on the Internet pdf 208K
ultimately published in: Ngoondjook June 2001, #19, pp33-51

draft of paper
Computer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge pdf 220K
ultimately published in: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts Number 1, pp 4-12

Helen Verran

Software for Educating Aboriginal Children about Place pdf 616 K
This is a near final version of a paper that will be published in 2007 by Lexington Books, USA, a division of Rowan and Littlefield in an edited collection 'Education and Technology: Critical Perspectives and Possible Futures' edited by David Kritt and Lucien Winegar."

Ninteenth Century British Explorers and Twenty first Century Australian Databasers pdf 728K
Text of a paper presented 10/12/04 School of Australian Indigenous
Knowledge Systems, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT.
Abstract: The paper tells how an unlikely analogy between IKRMNA and the Matthew Flinders scientific expedition in HMS Investigator in 1803 gives insight into our research work and research products.

Knowledge Traditions of Aboriginal Australians:
Questions and Answers arising in a Databasing Project pdf 284K
Draft of a paper to be published in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science and Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, H Selin (ed), Kluwer Academic Publications, 2005.
Abstract: In answering some questions about the place and role of
databasing in Aboriginal Australian Knowledge Traditions, the paper gives some interesting insights into the nature and workings of Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions.

Christian Clark

The Indigenous Knowledge Resource Management Northern Australia Project: Garma 2004 pdf 392K
Christian Clarke submitted this paper for a directed study unit he carried out under the supervision of Helen Verran. This was his final paper in completing an undergraduate major in HPS. He is currently an honours student in HPS.
Abstract: The paper tells of an ethnographic study of the production of digital objects and their incorporation in the Garma database at the 2004 Garma Festival (Link to Garma website page). It compares and contrasts the complexity of the process by which Yolngu researchers generated some Indigenous digital objects and the seeming ease with which students recording the Garma academic forum produced data items.

Gary Scott

Indigenous Knowledge Database Audit