Grants and Contributions:

Title:

University nuxelhot’ine thaa?ehots’i nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills Digitization, Archiving and Community Training Project

Agreement Number:

LHOV-03-044

Agreement Value:

$100,000.00

Agreement Date:

Sep 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

University nuxelhot’ine thaa?ehots’i nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (UnBQ) is establishing a community archive infrastructure for the storage of physical analog and digital audio, visual and textual materials that have linguistic, cultural and/or historic value to our communities. This project will digitize audio, video and textual materials; translate recordings and textual materials; archive and processing born-digital and digitized materials; provide archival and digitization training.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Provide 36 hours of training on digitizing materials

Creation of digitized copies, archiving and processing of audio recordings, video recordings, textual materials and photographs as follows: 200 audio recordings (audiocassettes and microcassettes), 50 video recordings (VHS videocassettes, Super VHS videocassette, Mini DV cassettes, Hi8 videocassette) 13 000 pages of textual materials, 1 000 photographs

Translation of audio, video and textual materials to create descriptions and summaries

Location:

St Paul, Alberta, CA T0A 3A0

Reference Number:

129-2022-2023-Q1-LHOV-03-044

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

University nuxelhot’ine thaa?ehots’i nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills

Program:

Listen, Hear Our Voices

Program Purpose:

Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.