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17 18 19 20 21 <link rel="canonical" href="https://info.omeka.net/news/"> 22 <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Omeka.net" href="/feed.xml"> 23 24</head> 25 26 27 <body class="news"> 28 29 <header aria-label="Site header" id="site-header" role="banner"> 30 31 <a href="#content" id="skip-link">Skip to content</a> 32 33 <a class="site-title" href="https://www.omeka.net"><img src="/assets/omeka-long-transparent.png" title="Omeka.net"></a> 34 35 <nav class="site-nav" aria-label="Primary"> 36 <div class="trigger"> 37 <ul> 38 <li><a href="https://www.omeka.net/signup">Pricing</a></li> 39 <li><a href="/showcase">Showcase</a></li> 40 <li><a href="/help">Help</a></li> 41 <li><a href="/news">News</a></li> 42 </ul> 43 <a href="https://www.omeka.net/dashboard" class="login">My Account</a> 44 45 <div id="global-search"> 46 <form method="get" action="/lunrsearch"> 47 <input type="text" name="q" placeholder="Search Omeka.net"> 48 <button>Go</button> 49 </form> 50 </div> 51 </div> 52 </nav> 53 54</header> 55 56 57 58 <main class="page-content" aria-label="Content" id="content"> 59 <header aria-label="Post header" class="post-header"> 60 <p class="page-title">News</p> 61 <h1 class="post-title"><a class="post-link" href="/2025/09/local-contexts-plugin/">New Plugin: Local Contexts</a></h1> 62 <p class="post-meta"><time datetime="" itemprop="datePublished">Sep 17, 2025</time> ⢠<span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Omeka.net Team</span></span></p> 63 </header> 64 <div class="wrapper"> 65 66 <p>Today, Omeka.net adds a plugin that facilitate the integration with the Local Contexts project. <a href="https://localcontexts.org/labels/about-the-labels/">Local Contexts Labels</a> allow Indigenous communities and local organizations to clearly articulate the conditions for sharing, use, and future engagement around collections and data in which they have an interest. <a href="https://localcontexts.org/notices/about-the-notices/">Local Contexts Notices</a> enable data and collections holders to mark that they recognize Indigenous rights and interests in those materials and, furthermore, to signal that they want to collaborate with Indigenous stakeholders to articulate the appropriate terms and conditions related to those materials. Once the parties have embarked up on that collaboration, together they can display the results of their deliberations using the Local Contexts Labels.</p> 67 68<p>Since Omekaâs very first release, the platforms have been designed to support open access to both digitalized collections materials and the robust metadata that describes those collections. We have worked hard to encourage standards and protocols that facilitate the free exchange, aggregation, and reuse of materials. Our recent <a href="https://omeka.org/news/2025/08/13/omeka-and-FAIR/">post on supporting FAIR data principles</a> is just our latest articulation of this commitment to open access. However, the preferential option for open access cannot be absolute or uncritical. The sharing of collections and data involving Indigenous peoples, their interests, their archives, and their cultural heritage materials necessitates collaboration with those commmunities on the degree and manner of access which is appropriate. The Local Contexts Labels and Notices help facilitate that collaboration and will enable Omeka users to engage in more responsible collections stewardship.</p> 69 70<p>The availability of the Local Contexts Labels and Notices represents our effort not only to support FAIR data principles but also to support CARE data principles. In 2019, the Research Data Allianceâs International Indigengous Data Sovereignty Interest Group <a href="https://www.gida-global.org/care">defined those principles</a> as:</p> 71 72<blockquote> 73 <ol> 74 <li>Collective Benefit: Data ecosystems shall be designed and function in ways that enable Indigenous People to derive benef
74it from the data.</li> 75 <li>Authority to Control: Indigenous Peoplesâ rights and interests in Indigenous data must be recognised and their authority to control such data be empowered. Indigenous data governance enables Indigenous Peoples and governing bodies to determine how Indigenous Peoples, as well as Indigenous lands, territories, resources, knowledges and geographical indicators, are represented and identified within data.</li> 76 <li>Responsibility: Those working with Indigenous data have a responsibility to share how those data are used to support Indigenous Peoplesâ self-determination and collective benefit. Accountability requires meaningful and openly available evidence of these efforts and the benefits accruing to Indigenous Peoples.</li> 77 <li>Ethics: Indigenous Peoplesâ rights and wellbeing should be the primary concern at all stages of the data life cycle and across the data ecosystem.</li> 78 </ol> 79</blockquote> 80 81<p>We are pleased to be able to support our users in upholding these principles in their digital cultural heritage projects with <a href="https://info.omeka.net/build-a-website/manage-plugins/local-contexts/">Omeka.net</a>, <a href="https://omeka.org/classic/docs/Plugins/LocalContexts/">Omeka Classic</a>, and <a href="https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/modules/localcontexts/">Omeka S</a>.</p> 82 83 84 <h2 class="archive-heading">Previously…</h2> 85 <ul class="post-list"> 86 87 88 89 90 <li> 91 <span class="post-meta">Jul 30, 2025</span> 92 93 <h2> 94 <a class="post-link" href="/2025/07/ohms-embed-plugin/">New Plugin: OHMS Embed</a> 95 </h2> 96 </li> 97 98 99 100 <li> 101 <span class="post-meta">Aug 6, 2024</span> 102 103 <h2> 104 <a class="post-link" href="/2024/08/resource-metadata-plugin/">New Plugin: Resource Metadata</a> 105 </h2> 106 </li> 107 108 109 110 <li> 111 <span class="post-meta">Apr 9, 2024</span> 112 113 <h2> 114 <a class="post-link" href="/2024/04/freedom-theme/">New Theme: Freedom</a> 115 </h2> 116 </li> 117 118 119 120 <li> 121 <span class="post-meta">May 18, 2023</span> 122 123 <h2> 124 <a class="post-link" href="/2023/05/social-bookmarking-updates/">Social Bookmarking Updates</a> 125 </h2> 126 </li> 127 128 129 130 <li> 131 <span class="post-meta">Apr 5, 2023</span> 132 133 <h2> 134 <a class="post-link" href="/2023/04/new-and-updated-plugins/">New and Updated Plugins and a New Theme</a> 135 </h2> 136 </li> 137 138 139 140 <li> 141 <span class="post-meta">Sep 22, 2021</span> 142 143 <h2> 144 <a class="post-link" href="/2021/09/new-admin-look/">A New Admin Look Arrives</a> 145 </h2> 146 </li> 147 148 149 150 <li> 151 <span class="post-meta">Sep 14, 2021</span> 152 153 <h2> 154 <a class="post-link" href="/2021/09/new-admin-theme/">New Admin Theme!</a> 155 </h2> 156 </li> 157 158 159 160 <li> 161 <span class="post-meta">Dec 17, 2020</span> 162 163 <h2> 164 <a class="post-link" href="/2020/12/year-in-review/">2020 Year in Review</a> 165 </h2> 166 </li> 167 168 169 170 <li> 171 <span class="post-meta">Feb 6, 2019</span> 172 173 <h2> 174 <a class="post-link" href="/2019/02/down-for-maintenance/">Down for Maintenance</a> 175 </h2> 176 </li> 177 178 179 180 <li>
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