Abstract

This is an Indigenous-led project that involves a partnership with the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation to respond to Olkola’s digital cultural heritage needs and aspirations. This project facilitates Olkola People to collect, manage, and share their digital cultural heritage through an Olkola-led participatory process. It explores the potential of emerging digital appropriate technologies, including 3D scanning, digital archive, and Extended Reality (XR), and draws on Olkola cultural and experiential knowledge. The project contributes to Olkola digital cultural heritage development, reinforcing identity and pride. It also advances methodological and technological knowledge by developing innovative Indigenous-led participatory approaches for digital cultural heritage, and by critically navigating, selecting, and developing emerging digital technologies to align with Indigenous contexts and aspirations.

Keywords

Olkola; Olkola People; Indigenous; Aboriginal; First Nation People; Traditional Owner; digital cultural heritage; participatory process; Participatory Action Research (PAR); participatory design; Indigenous-led participatory design; digital divide; community informatics; Indigenous data sovereignty; appropriate technology; digital cultural heritage; 3D/4D scanning; 3D/4D reconstruction; digital archive; Extended Reality.