Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor Jane Anderson and Executive Director Hop Hopkins will present a keynote at the upcoming @edinitiative.bsky.social Townhall. For registration and more information, see the EDI website: ethicaldatainitiative.org/2025/12/18/j...

As a part of Love Data Week at New York University, on February 12, NYU Libraries will have an in-person screen E Kore Au E Ngaro | The Connection Remains and discussion with filmmakers Andreas Burgess and Jane Anderson (Local Contexts Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor). nyu.libcal.com/event/16242801

Please meet Outreach Coordinator Monique Tyndall (she/they/naakmãawã). Monique supports Local Contexts’ outreach efforts associated with the CBIKS. Read more about Monique on our website! localcontexts.org/about/the-lo...

Our team will present alongside representatives from the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Sciences & Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields as a part of the Association on American Indian Affairs’ 11th Annual Repatriation Conference. Learn more: www.indian-affairs.org/11thannualre...

The first-ever international standard that calls for “appropriate disclosure of Indigenous peoples’ relationships and/or links to all data” is now available for free download. 🔥 Register on the IEEE site for access. standards.ieee.org/ieee/2890/10...

📣 The Local Contexts team will be away from our desks Dec 24-Jan 2. If you have any Qs, please contact us through our website, & we will get back to you when we return to our desks on January 5. Our team sends best wishes for a happy Solstice, winter/summer season, & start to the new year!

Thank you to those who donated to support Local Contexts during #GivingTuesday! We launched our donation program to establish the Local Contexts Label Development Fund. To support, you can: 🌿 share this post/our donation page (localcontexts.org/donate/) 🌿 give 1-time 🌿 give monthly

Please meet Strategy and Operations Manager Liz Kinnmark (she/they)! Liz supports Local Contexts’ day-to-day operations and long-term planning, helping strengthen workflows, budgeting, and internal coordination across the team. localcontexts.org/about/the-lo...

📣 We are pleased to share an update from our partner @localcontexts.bsky.social. 📌 Researcher accounts in the Local Contexts Hub can now be added to #ORCID records. Read more on the blog by @shawnasadler.bsky.social: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9mp#ORCID #Researchsky #LocalContexts

Dr. Lydia Jennings @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social (Pascua Yaqui Tribe (Yoeme) and Huichol (Wixáritari)) is an environmental soil scientist with a vast number of research projects.

On this #GivingTuesday, we are excited to begin accepting donations to sustain our work & directly support Indigenous communities to uphold their sovereignty. Through your donations, the Local Contexts Label Development Fund provides capacity support for Indigenous communities.

Among her many roles, Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl (Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne ki Wairau) serves on Rūnaka Executive Committee of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, as Associate Professor & Dean at the University of Otago, & Local Contexts Councilor Community Member. 💬: Local Contexts Summit Aotearoa (November 2023)

41 Indigenous communities around the world are using the Local Contexts Labels to safeguard their culture, data, and rights. Communities’ use of Labels clearly defines the provenance, protocols, and permissions around their materials and knowledge, making their authority and rights clear.

@ncig2013.bsky.social @indigenousdatalab.bsky.social @scbegonias.bsky.social @mediaindigena.bsky.social NativeBio, Indigenous Data Alliance, US Indigenous Sovereignty Network, GIDA and @localcontexts.bsky.social have been saying all of this since 2009. www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-nove...

Local Contexts is connected with Indigenous communities, institutions, researchers, and integration partners around the world. For the past 15 years, our relationships have helped us to build out the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as practical tools for supporting Indigenous rights.

⚡The GBIF Indigenous Data Governance task group led by @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty. Contribute to the survey! 🔗 gbif.link/Indigenous-d... @localcontexts.bsky.social

The newly adopted IEEE Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data is the first-ever international standard that calls for “appropriate disclosure of Indigenous peoples’ relationships and/or links to all data.” 🔥#IDSov Read more: nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...

The Local Contexts team is excited to share a series of short videos that introduce the Local Contexts Hub and how you use it to apply Labels and Notices. Each video is 1-5 min & is captioned in English. Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

➡️ See you at #NEMA2025? Next week, Local Contexts will join representatives from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Wilson Museum, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, & UMass Amherst as part of a session at the New England Museum Association annual conference. nemanet.org/page/Confere...

Overflowing room for our session on Indigenous data governance and the @localcontexts.bsky.social labeling tools. People are eager to learn tools to support Indigenous communities governance of their data #LivingData2025

"It is clear that the #biodiversity data community is ready to engage on this topic and genuinely interested to learn more. Thank you to the @gbif.org #Indigenous Data Task Force and @localcontexts.bsky.social for their leadership in this space." - Katie Jones on #LivingData2025 in Bogotá

🔶 For National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’re happy to spotlight the RavenSpace project (@ubcpress.bsky.social) 📚 By leveraging digital technologies, the editorial process of this platform adapts to indigenous modes of knowledge ! 📌 Learn more: shorturl.at/vObqX

Part of this week's Hub update was an expansion of the Hub’s connection to @orcid.org. Researchers can now connect their Local Contexts account to their ORCID record as an external ID. Learn how to utilize this update in our blog: localcontexts.org/october-2025...

The Local Contexts Hub will undergo scheduled service on October 1 UTC. The Hub will be unavailable during the update, which will introduce new features for the ORCID connection for researcher accounts, Project contributors, & Project identifiers. localcontexts.org/october-2025...

Reminder: Happening tomorrow! #ClimateWeek #ClimateWeekNYC

We are ecstatic to have @omeka.org become the first certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. Read more: localcontexts.org/omeka-certif...

Have you ever thought about what Tribal derived data is and the big questions surrounding its use? youtu.be/twp6lABlTM8?... #DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #videoseries #TribalSovereignty #Research

Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL, & MOTH at NYU are excited to host the panel “Living Data, Living Lands: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Biodiversity Monitoring” at Climate Week on Sept 23. RSVP: forms.gle/X1PjNd5V3va6...

We are pleased to share that Hop Hopkins @hop1972.bsky.social (he/him) has joined Local Contexts as our Executive Director. Hop is a social movement strategist and scholar who has been at the forefront of social justice campaigns for over 25 years. Read more: localcontexts.org/press-releas...

❓Do you have questions about Local Contexts or using the Hub? Our next information and Hub sessions have been scheduled for September, November, and December! More info & sign-up on our website. localcontexts.org/events/info-...

Local Contexts is thrilled to have @umasslibraries.bsky.social join as a Hub Subscriber! With this subscription, UMass is leading the way for transformational practice that connects Indigenous cultural authority to existing collections & ongoing research. www.library.umass.edu/news/umass-a...

There are billions of #biodiversity observations worldwide 🌱🐞. Yet, almost none of them have associated #IndigenousDataSovereignty rights assigned to the data. I'm looking forward to participating in this upcoming panel at #ClimateWeekNYC on these issues. RSVP to join: lnkd.in/g6zb_TXr

NYC 2025 Climate week! Excited to be there in the action and for this session hosted by @localcontexts.bsky.social

Dynamic consent can promote Tribal sovereignty, this video provides an overview of different informed consent types. youtu.be/_4j8kKh4Zjc?... #Datasovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #TribalSovereignty #Consent

📣 The Local Contexts team will be away from our desks August 18-22, 2025, taking a short winter/summer break. If you have any questions, please contact us through our website, and we will get back to you when we return to our desks on August 25. #LocalContextsTeam

Please meet our new Subscriptions Coordinator L.E. Brown (she/her)! L.E. offers support for Hub subscribers, manages subscription data, and implements strategic frameworks to help grow the Hub’s subscriptions system. localcontexts.org/about/the-lo...

💭 Cómic sobre Local Contexts disponible en español “Contextos Locales: Restablecer la soberanía con nuestros parientes las plantas” es un cómic que ilustra la colaboración entre la Nación Shinnecock, Local Contexts & el Jardín Botánico de Nueva York. Lee: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Indígena #LandBack

We are thrilled that @gbif.org has established an Indigenous Data Governance Task Group, and that the Task Group will oversee a pilot testing application of Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels within #GBIF! #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousRights #BeFAIRandCARE

As a descendant of the #Stockbridge-#Munsee #Mahican, #Oneida, #Lenape, #Brothertown and #Montauk peoples, I struggle to express how much it means—personally and professionally—to support the work of the task group and @localcontexts.bsky.social in shaping #IDGov #IDSov within the @gbif.org network.

Members of the Local Contexts team will present a workshop and symposium in-person in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of Living Data 2025 in Oct, a joint conference of @gbif.org, TDWG, OBIS, and @geobon.org. If you will attending & interested in connecting, please chat/email us! www.livingdata2025.com

If you are not signed up for Animikii’s News River, you are missing out on a curated IDSov weekly news digest! We were ecstatic & grateful to see Animikii highlight a recent webinar with Local Contexts Co-Founder Jane Anderson in their June 18 message. buttondown.com/newsriver

Mānawatia a Matariki mā Puanga! Ngā mihi o te tau hou! Hail, Matariki and Puanga! Happy Māori New Year! To celebrate the new lunar year I created this piece of Te Whānau o Matariki and Puanga, who both form part of the great constellation, Te Waka o Rangi. ✨✨✨🌙✨

On this #Juneteenth, we uplift the brilliance, resilience, and joy of Black communities. The bonds between Indigenous and Black relatives run deep, rooted in generations of shared resistance and collective vision for justice. #HappyJuneteenth

As Wend Wendland attends his last WIPO IGC, we want to join the celebrations of his leadership over the past 20+ yrs & thank Wend for his early support of Local Contexts. Seed funding from WIPO TK Division set us on our path so 15 yrs later, we are going strong to support #IDSov across the world.

Starting off the #Dataverse2025 community meeting with workshops! We have an all day Use Cases workshop starting with sharing Indigenous Data and the DV integration with @localcontexts.bsky.social

Center CIRCL at NYU and Local Contexts are seeking a highly organized, creative, proactive, & detail-oriented individual to join the Center CIRCL Staff as the Associate Research Scientist/Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Please share widely! Reviews to begin June 20. apply.interfolio.com/168898

The Local Contexts team is planning to attend and present half-day workshop 21 and session 302 at ATALM 2025. These will be focused on introducing the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as potential tools for managing and protecting cultural heritage. www.atalm.org/conference-2...

“Local Contexts: Restorying Sovereignty with Plant Relatives” is a new comic that illustrates the collaboration between Shinnecock Nation, Local Contexts, & @nybg.bsky.social (@alexmcalvay.bsky.social) around reconnection & sovereignty with plant relatives. Read ➡️ doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

❓Do you have questions about Local Contexts or using the Hub? Our next information and Hub sessions have been scheduled for June, July, & August! More info & sign-up on our website. localcontexts.org/events/info-...

We are excited to share that a TK Notice is included in Marana Dyargali, a thoughtfully designed collection of zines on Indigenous research ethics published by UTS ePress 👏 Read: doi.org/10.5130/aam