Digitized indigenous knowledge collections: Impact on cultural knowledge transmission, social connections, and cultural identity

This research examines the impact of digitized and digital indigenous knowledge collections (D-IKC) on cultural transmission, social connections, identity through semi-structured interviews with 8 users D-IKC in New Zealand. The participants acknowledged that brought about many benefits, including surfacing otherwise hidden or inaccessible heritage. Concerns around access, competency, responsiveness to values need be thoughtfully addressed nevertheless. Use had not only at an individual level but also a social-community level. We highlight several traditional related use are embodied existing value-impact frameworks. found intersection interactions among needs, expectations, norms affordances information environments concerned were nuanced multifaceted. These facets must incorporated into stewardship collections. observed “digital sharing wild”—knowledge transmission transpired some cases led creation resources materialized outside bounds originating repositories institutions. Further studies such self-organized transmission/sharing phenomena can lead valuable insights inform shape curation design D-IKC.