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Title:

Tumetalik: Inuit trails and place names across Inuit Nunaat—the Claudio Aporta fonds

Agreement Number:

LHOV-04-010

Agreement Value:

$50,416.00

Agreement Date:

Aug 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024

Description:

Claudio Aporta, Ph.D., has spent over 20 years of his academic career documenting Inuit traditional knowledge across Inuit Nunangat. Aporta's most significant work is focused on the geographic representation of Inuit environmental knowledge. Through hundreds of interviews, mapping sessions, and trips onto the land/sea/ice, Aporta has recorded Inuit travel routes - trails - across the Arctic. Inuit trails leave little to no permanent marks, yet the same trails have been used for hundreds of years. The Claudio Aporta fonds consists of approximately 1 metre of textual records, 10-15 maps, 10 photographs, and approximately 300 GB of digital files. The digital files consist of textual documents, digital photographs, datasets, and digital maps.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Enable intellectual access to maps of Inuit trails and place names in the fonds - in consultation with the Archivist, the GIS expert will clean all datasets and ensure there is at least one digital map for each dataset

Facilitate intellectual access to the contents of the fonds - the Archivist will write a multi-level, RAD-compliant archival description and put the descriptions on ICC Canada's online archival database. Several descriptions will be accompanied by digital objects embedded in the online archival database

Awareness of Aporta fonds and increased ability to find archival materials - Presentation of Tumetalik project and Aporta fonds at the ICC Canada Annual Meeting in Nain, Nutatsiavut

Increased access to Aporta fonds materials - Digitization of physical materials in the Aporta fonds to permit remote access

Location:

Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1P 5E7

Reference Number:

129-2023-2024 Q1-LHOV-04-010

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada

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.