Mukurtu Integration Design and Development

Owned by Megan Forbes
Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 by Michael T. Black
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Use Cases

Local History Organization

State Historical Society (SHS) would like to integrate CollectionSpace with Mukurtu in order to provide NAGPRA-eligible groups, including federally recognized tribes, with access to potentially relevant NAGPRA-eligible collections data. Tribal members will be able to log in to Mukurtu, search for NAGPRA-eligible collections that are associated with their tribe, and initiate communication with curatorial staff via the portal. They will also be able to add notes to the collection records so that tribal members can contribute contextual storytelling elements to the object record via the portal. Information added by tribal members will be tagged and added to records in CollectionSpace.

Anthropology Museum

Anthropology Museum (AM) has large collections of Native American items in their collections. They would like to provide lists of these items to tribes for import into their own, locally-managed Mukurtu instances, and then be able to accepted edited or enhanced data back from the tribes. AM is also considering providing lists of NAGPRA-eligible items to tribes for import into their own, locally-managed Mukurtu instances, or in some cases, into an instance that is managed by the museum.

Data Map

Draft map from Mukurtu to CSpace:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dk9BPdAjJvq5AWh8xtCD9lVk7T7Edyi5rwC4B4JwNyo/edit?usp=sharing

Sample Data Export from Mukurtu

 

Things to Think About

Just a holding place for notes we don’t want to lose!

  • Can the CSID make the roundtrip so the CSpace object does not lose its unique identifier?

  • TK labels suggested schema: TK, who, authority, affiliation, date, note (repeating)