The Churchill Community of Knowledge: An Open Access Digital Archive

• Main Authors: Untershats, Netta, Kosavic, Andrea, Cooke, Fred, Jefferies, Susan, Sivakumaran, Jeevika, Bekit, Natan Z, Bazely, Dawn
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Wapusk National Park; Tundra; Institutional Repository; Open Access; Science Pedagogy; Fred Cooke; Bob Jefferies; Digital Archive; Digital Pedagogy; Canada; Churchill; Wapusk national park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36368

Biology Students participated in this project through the Biology Department Research Practicum Course. 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. This project was inititially supported by a Parks Canada Grant to Dawn Bazely at IRIS, Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, that was administered by the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Manitoba, Canada