2024/10/01 by Carole L. Palmer, Sebastian Karcher, Miranda Belarde‐Lewis +2 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Data Quality and Management #Digital and Traditional Archives Management #Research Data Management Practices
paper · doi:10.1002/pra2.1070
openalex publication_date 2024/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance provide essential guideposts for the stewardship of Indigenous data. To put CARE into practice in libraries and repositories, resources are needed to support implementation and integration into current research data services (RDS). Based on analysis of case studies with scholars of Indigenous language and culture, this paper articulates specific Indigenous research and data practices to guide metadata work and other areas of responsibility in RDS. The cases surface the richness of relationships and the significance of accountability in the research process—demonstrating the “relational accountability” inherent in Indigenous research methods. Robust representation of relationality is essential to retaining integrity of context in metadata for Indigenous research data. We consider the practical implications of documenting relational context with current descriptive metadata approaches and challenges in achieving CARE adherent metadata, which we argue is the backbone for broader application of CARE for Indigenous RDS.