Collaborative Research: Digital Archives and Indigenous Afterlives of Scientific Objects

合作研究：数字档案和科学物品的本土遗骸

• 批准号: 2147258
• 负责人: Laura Graham
• 金额: $ 11.19万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147258&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Digital; Archives; Indigenous

At a moment when universities, museums, and archives are grappling with questions of how to responsibly manage and care for scientific collections created under unequal power dynamics, this project explores the role of digital access in understanding these histories, redressing associated harms, and envisioning new and more equitable forms of research for groups that have been marginalized. Through the collaborative construction of a digital archive, this project responds to requests from Indigenous communities for the return of scientific materials such as photographs, audio recordings, and publications that document their lives and communities. It explores the potential of digital infrastructures to enable communities’ control of materials that document them, according to their norms for sharing and protecting knowledge. Analysis of the ways participants experience and see themselves in relation to scientific research will help future researchers better respond to subjects’ and communities’ priorities. This project will provide resources, training, and a model for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue research in the social and natural sciences. It will contribute to broader initiatives that engage scientists, data repositories, and archival materials to democratize access and engagement in scholarly work while maintaining respect for Indigenous and local knowledge systems.Drawing on methodological insights from Indigenous studies that prioritize reciprocal foundations of knowledge, this project will develop a methodology to effectively examine asymmetries in knowledge production, helping scholars learn how to incorporate reciprocity and care into their work. Using data collected through community consultation, semi-structured interviews, and ethnography of the construction and use of the digital archive, this research will offer theoretical insights into: (1) The potentials and pitfalls of re-using already-collected materials; (2) How approaches to archives and collections that reconfigure power dynamics and permit community-based reinterpretation can result in new knowledge about history and science; (3) How digital returns of scientific materials can contribute to community-defined research and inform human sciences research with Indigenous communities more broadly. In addition to science and technology studies scholars and historians of science, this project will be of interest to librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and others dedicated to privacy and justice in the collection and use of human data. Findings will inform research design across a wide range of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as policy and practice related to human subject’s research regulation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

当前，大学、博物馆和档案馆正在努力解决如何负责任地管理和照顾在不平等权力动态下创建的科学藏品的问题，该项目探讨了数字访问在理解这些历史、纠正相关危害和设想新的方面的作用。通过合作建设数字档案，该项目响应了原住民社区要求归还记录其生活的照片、录音和出版物等科学材料的要求。它探索了数字基础设施的潜力，使社区能够根据其共享和保护知识的规范来控制记录材料。分析参与者在科学研究中的体验和看待自己的方式将有助于未来的研究人员更好地帮助他们。响应学科和社区的优先事项，该项目将为本科生和研究生提供资源、培训和模型，以开展社会和自然科学研究。它将有助于促进科学家、数据存储库和档案馆参与的更广泛的举措。使学术访问和参与民主化的材料在保持对土著和地方知识体系的尊重的同时开展工作。借鉴土著研究中优先考虑知识互惠基础的方法论见解，该项目将开发一种方法来有效检查知识生产中的不对称性，帮助学者学习如何将互惠和关怀纳入他们的研究中利用通过社区咨询、半结构化访谈以及数字档案的构建和使用的人种学收集的数据，本研究将提供以下方面的理论见解：（1）重复使用已收集的数据的潜力和陷阱。材料；（2）重新配置权力动态并允许基于社区的重新解释的档案和收藏方法如何能够产生有关历史和科学的新知识；（3）科学材料的数字返回如何有助于社区定义的研究并为人类提供信息除了科学技术研究学者和科学史学家之外，图书馆员、档案管理员、博物馆专业人员和其他致力于人类数据收集和使用中的隐私和正义的人也会对这个项目感兴趣。 .调查结果将告知涵盖人文、社会科学和自然科学等广泛领域的研究设计，以及与人类受试者研究监管相关的政策和实践。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。