Organization
Treaty 8 Tribal Association
Address
Please note that this position is remote/hybrid.
10233-100th Avenue
Fort St. John, BC V1J 1Y8
Canada
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Supervising Librarian/Archivist
Name: Richard Arias-Hernández
Email: richard.arias@ubc.ca
Purpose of the project:
The purpose of this project is to provide an opportunity for students to assist the project team of Cultural and Digital Humanities experts with preparing materials in the Ridington Dane-zaa Archive for upload into Treaty 8 Tribal Association’s archive database (ArchiveEra) for formal repatriation and governance by source communities.
Summary of activities required to carry out the project:
- Data entry, updating existing records in the Ridington Dane-zaa Archive Metadata Workbook with additional metadata copied from catalogues and fieldnotes.
- Quality Control | Data cleaning: checking and editing records for standardized date formats, spelling of names and places etc.
- Media inventory to reconcile the physical materials with digital surrogates.
- Digitization services (scanning textual materials primarily) and/or research to identify an appropriate service provider.
- Media formatting and file management to meet the requirements for batch upload into the ArchiveEra database.
- Analytics and visualization reporting on datasets within the collection
- Reporting on workflows and work completed.
Expectations of the end result of the project, for both host and student:
Expectations for Student:The student will contribute to the preparation of materials for repatriation and the implementation of decolonial methodologies facilitating Indigenous data governance practices. This hands-on work will provide valuable professional skills that will be an asset for digital archive work and for collaborative work with Indigenous communities striving to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action for libraries and archives and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Expectations for Host: The Host will benefit from the professional skills of a trained archivist or librarian to help with archival description and arrangement and make materials in the RDA accessible to the source communities in their preferred form.
Time periods in which the project could be supervised:
- Summer Session, Term 1 (May – June)
- Summer Session, Term 2 (July – August)
Is there a deadline by which the project must be completed?
August 31, 2025
Considering the project requirements, please suggest suitable coursework as pre-requisite or co-requisite:
Students in the First Nations Curriculum Concentration with a focus on collections and information management would be ideal.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.