The Churchill Community of Knowledge: An Open Access Digital Archive

• Main Authors: Untershats, Netta, Kosavic, Andrea, Cooke, Fred, Jefferies, Susan, Sivakumaran, Jeevika, Bekit, Natan, Bazely, Dawn
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Poster presented at the 7th International Biocuration Conference 6-9 April 2014, Toronto, Canada 2014
• Subjects: Wapusk National Park; Arctic Ecology; Tundra; Institutional Repository; Open Access; Science Pedagogy; Fred Cooke; Bob Jefferies; Digital Archive; Digital Pedagogy; Hudson Bay; Arctic; Canada; Hudson; Churchill; Wapusk national park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35727

This poster won an award at the conference at the semi-final judging stage. This poster was presented at the 7th International Biocuration Conference (ISB2014), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 6-9, 2014. The Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive is a YorkSpace Institutional Repository research project led by IRIS (Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability) and York University Libraries. Its overall goal is to document, coalesce and mobilize long-term ecological research from Wapusk National Park and, more broadly, Churchill, Manitoba. To date, the project has engaged 10 undergraduate & graduate Biology students in developing metadata for copyright‑cleared digital media & uploading items. Diverse communities, including the public, can access the Open Access archive via Google searches Parks Canada Grant to Churchill Northern Studies Centre, held by Dawn Bazely at IRIS, Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability