Wikiproject Local Contexts

Introduction

Traditional Knowledge labels (TK Labels) are an initiative for Indigenous communities and local organizations that allows them to express conditions for sharing their materials and engage in research in ways that respect community rules, governance and protocols for using, sharing and circulating knowledge and data.

The set of tools for communities includes additionally Biocultural (BC) Labels that are used to define expectations about appropriate use of biocultural collections and data.

The Notices are tools for institutions and researchers to identify Indigenous collections and data and recognize Indigenous rights and interests.

How can these labels be used on Wikimedia Commons? How would adding them be administered? Who can add a label? How is adding them managed in practice?

GLAMhack23

Once a year, the Swiss OpenGLAM working group brings together cultural institutions, software developers, digital humanists, artists, Wikipedians and other interested parties to promote openness among galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). The GLAMhack collaboratively experiments and innovates with cultural content and digital tools for research, web and mobile applications, Wikipedia and other uses. This edition focuses on colonial collections, provenance research, as well as the application of the FAIR and CARE principles in data governance.

The challenge at GLAMhack charts how Local Context labels can be utilized on Wikimedia Commons.

Meetup with Local Contexts

29 September 2023 15:00 CEST

Round of presentations. Susanna presents the challenge and the meta-wiki page.
Presentation of the possible use of the labels and notices of Local Contexts.
"Notices" are tags which could be used by institutions, researchers and volunteers. Iolanda suggests to use it in the discussion pages
Labels can only be used by communities so on the Wikimedia projects they need to cite
We look together at the database they use, with the different data and labels and notices.

Workflow scenario

The collection

An institution has a collection of items that originate from a community. The institution wishes to make informed choices about sharing information about those items on the internet. They seek collaboration with the community and decide to use the Local Contexts labels and notices.

Adding Traditional Knowledge Labels (TK Labels) and Biocultural Labels (BC Labels)

The originating community assigns Traditional Knowledge Labels or Biocultural Labels to the collection items, an entire collection, or all holdings in an institution. The community defines the choice of labels they wish to use and the description of each label. These decisions are recorded in the Local Contexts hub. The institution attaches the correct labels to each item according to this information.

On Wikimedia projects

Wikidata

The Wikimedian makes sure that there are Wikidata items for the heritage element, the originating community, the collection and the institution.

To be able to use the labels on Wikimedia Commons, the labels must have items on Wikidata, the label images be available on Wikimedia Commons and they must be openly licensed. {{cc-zero}} and {{PD-textlogo}} templates are added to the label images. To mitigate the misuse of the labels, a {{trademarked}} template will be used with the images.

Wikimedia Commons

The institution uploads images to Wikimedia Commons. The Wikidata item of the individual heritage element, the collection or the entire institution is marked as having one or more Local Contexts labels attached to it. The data about this can be queried via the APIs made available by Local Contexts.

The Wikimedia Commons page for the image knows it must display the related Traditional Knowledge label on the page based on the link to the Wikidata item of the heritage element, the collection or the institution. Wikimedia contributors should not be able to add labels themselves.

What can Wikimedia Contributors do? Add Notices!

Possible steps:

Wikidata item for Local Contexts — Done
Uploading the Label and Notices images on Wikimedia Commons with {{cc-zero}}, {{PD-textlogo}}, {{trademarked}} — Partly done, file:Local Contexts.svg
Wikidata items for the Labels and Notices — Waiting
Institutions and communities are added in the Local Contexts hub. It records which Labels and Notices are attached to items, collections and institutions. On Wikidata, add information to items about the Labels and Notices that an item, collection or institution uses.
Check if the institutions have collections on Wikimedia Commons
Add the labels to the collections and works on Wikimedia Commons

Traditional Knowledge Labels

To do: Local Contexts to check that these descriptions are ok and free to use on Wikidata.

TK Label	acronym	description	url
TK Community Use Only	TK CO	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material is usually not circulated beyond the family, clan or community	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-community-use-only/
TK Non-Commercial	TK NC	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material should only be used in non-commercial ways	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-non-commercial/
TK Open to Collaboration	TK CB	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that the community is open to research collaborations	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-open-to-collaboration/
TK Open to Commercialization	TK OC	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate an expressed interest in being a primary party to any future negotiations if commercialization opportunities arise	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-commercial/
TK Outreach	TK O	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material should only be used for educational outreach activities	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-outreach/
TK Culturally Sensitive	TK CS	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material has special sensitivities around it and should be treated with great care	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-culturally-sensitive/
TK Men General	TK MG	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material should only be shared between men in the community	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-men-general/
TK Men Restricted	TK MR	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that only authorized (and/or initiated) men within the community should be using this material	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-men-restricted/
TK Non-Verified	TK NV	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material has not been verified by the community	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-non-verified/
TK Seasonal	TK S	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material has seasonal conditions of access and use	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-seasonal/
TK Secret / Sacred	TK SS	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material contains secret/sacred information and that it has specific conditions of access and use	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-secret-sacred/
TK Verified	TK V	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that the community is satisfied with the way in which the traditional knowledge materials are being represented online or offline	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-verified/
TK Women General	TK WG	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material should only be shared between women in the community	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-women-general/
TK Women Restricted	TK WR	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that only authorized (and/or initiated) women within the community should be using this material	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-women-restricted/
TK Attribution	TK A	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate the correct sources, custodians, or owners	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-attribution/
TK Clan	TK CL	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material is subject to conditions for circulation relating to clan membership and/or is according to protocols for clan relationships	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-clan/
TK Community Voice	TK CV	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that the current narrative or explanation that accompanies this material is incomplete or partial and that many community voices are needed to help make sense of and understand it	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-community-voice/
TK Creative	TK CR	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that an individual artist or author would like to clearly connect creative practices with traditional knowledge deriving from their own community	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-creative/
TK Family	TK F	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that this material is usually only shared between family members	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-family/
TK Multiple Communities	TK MC	Traditional Knowledge Label to indicate that multiple communities have responsibilities of custodianship and/or ownership over this material	https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-multiple-communities/

Notices

Engagement Notice

The Engagement Notice is used to indicate a researcher or institution is committed to equitable engagement and ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities.

Disclosure Notices

The Disclosure Notices are used to identify Indigenous collections and data and to recognize there could be accompanying cultural rights, protocols, and responsibilities.

Collections Care Notices

The Collections Care Notices are used to recognize the cultural protocols that govern the care, display, and access to cultural materials.

Things to do

Enrich Local Contexts item on Wikidata d:Q122870872

Make labels available on Wikidata

Create Wikidata items for each label and notice Done
- add their links on this page Doing...
Add label images to Wikimedia Commons
- License the label images openly: Local Contexts will send an authorization to the Volunteer Response Team on Wikimedia Commons. commons:COM:deletion requests/Local Contexts
- Create Category on Wikimedia Commons Done
Add labels and descriptions in several languages

Use labels on Wikimedia Commons

Who can assign labels to images?
- TK and BC labels are used by indigenous communities and should not added by anyone. For them, we can only refer to what institutions have assigned in collaboration with heritage communities.
- How about Notices?
We have to express that the labels are not licenses.
Local Contexts has a database. What infromation does it have? How can that information be used to inform adding labels?
What can a user of Wikimedia Commons do to tag content?

Possible model of authorization from Local Contexts

I hereby assert that I represent the organization Local Contexts https://localcontexts.org/ - the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the following labels and notices

We agree to publish that work under the CC0 https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/ with a Trademarked template https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Trademarked

The data attached to labels and notices can be published under the CC0.

The texts describing the labels and notices can be published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 and CC BY-SA 3.0 licenses.

I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

DATE, NAME OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER