Mapping traditional knowledge: Digital cartography in the Canadian north

Digital cartography offers exciting opportunities for recording indigenous knowledge, particularly in contexts where a people's relationship to the land has high cultural significance. Canada's north offers a useful case study of both the opportunities and challenges of such projects. Thro...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
Main Authors: Engler, N.J. (Nate J.), Scassa, T. (Teresa), Taylor, D.R. (Fraser)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
cartographie autochtone
consentement éclairé
cybercartographie
cybercartography
indigenous mapping
informed consent
intellectual property
privacy
propriété intellectuelle
savoir ancestral
traditional knowledge
vie privée
inuit
Sea ice
Tundra
Online Access:https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/12100
https://doi.org/10.3138/carto.48.3.1685
Description
Summary:Digital cartography offers exciting opportunities for recording indigenous knowledge, particularly in contexts where a people's relationship to the land has high cultural significance. Canada's north offers a useful case study of both the opportunities and challenges of such projects. Through the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), Inuit peoples have been invited to become partners in innovative digital mapping projects, including creating atlases of traditional place names, recording the patterns and movement of sea ice, and recording previously uncharted and often shifting traditional routes over ice and tundra. Such projects have generated interest in local communities because of their potential to record and preserve traditional knowledge and because they offer an attractive visual and multimedia interface that can address linguistic and cultural concerns. But given corporations' growing interest in the natural resource

Similar Items