Relocating a Sense of Place Using the Participatory Geoweb: The Historical Document Database of the Métis Nation of British Columbia

Jon M. Corbett, Mike Evans, Gabrielle Legault and Zach Romano
Additional contact information
Jon M. Corbett: Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Mike Evans: Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia & Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Gabrielle Legault: Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Zach Romano: Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 24-38

Abstract: The interactive capability and ease of use of Geoweb technologies suggest great potential for Aboriginal communities to store, manage, and communicate place-related knowledge. For the Métis, who have a long history of dispossession and dispersion in Canada, the Geoweb offers an opportunity in realizing the desire to articulate a coherent sense of place for their people. This paper reports on a community-based research project involving the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Métis Nation of British Columbia (MNBC) – the political body representing the Métis people in BC. The project includes the creation of a Geoweb tool specifically designed to facilitate the (self) articulation of a Métis community in contemporary BC. It examines how Geoweb technologies have been used to create a participatory, crowd-sourced Historical Document Database (HDD) that takes meaning through the interface of a map. The paper further explores how the data contributed by members of the Métis community have been used to capture, communicate, and represent community memories in the dispersed membership. It concludes by examining challenges that have emerged related to platform stability and institutional relations related to the ongoing sustainability of the HDD.

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve. ... 018/ijagr.2015010102 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:jagr00:v:6:y:2015:i:1:p:24-38

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) is currently edited by Donald Patrick Albert

More articles in International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) from IGI Global
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journal Editor ().