Community Based Design

This document provides an overview of the Community-Based Design of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP). DAILP is a community-based digital archive created to support indigenous peoples’ knowledge, interpretations, and representations of the past.

DAILP’s work is initiated and sustained by community collaboration in which we develop collaborative translation environments across communities of users, develop software engineering methods to build reliable infrastructure for the archive, and create collaborative workflows that center tribal community practices and design insights.

Each step of our processes is approved and considered by community members and data sovereignty is a central importance to DAILP’s aim.

These pages under Community-Based Design show details and descriptions of the methods in which we use for language perseverance and reclamation.

• CARE Principles:
  • This page includes information about DAILP’s community-based CARE Principles and will describe how the principles impact DAILP teams and workflows.
• Collective Decision-Making Processes:
  • This page describes how DAILP is a community-based and community-led archive as well as DAILP’s framework and structured environment.
• Culturally Sensitive Information
  • This page emphasizes DAILP’s priority to include indigenous data sovereignty, how community members approve all published items, and describes the process of publishing documents in DAILP’s collection.
  • This page also includes a brief overview on Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels, the TK Label's API Process, and provides linked resources to Local Contents’ website for additional information. The page describes how DAILP has integrated TK Labels into our Metadata display in the redesign of our website.
• UX Design
  • This page provides a description of DAILP’s user experience (UX) design process and accomplishments.
• Metadata:
  • This page provides the list of fields added to DAILP’s metadata structures after 2025, roles of different users in terms of editing the metadata, and a list of DAILP’s metadata history prior to 2025.