Data Resilience

Overview

Data Resilience (TBD, in progress)

DAILP is committed to data resilience in the forms of preservation, sovereignty, and governance. We are currently working to build a comprehensive plan to support and operationalize data resilience within our software ecosystem and community partnerships.

As a community-based and community-led archive for language persistence, Indigenous data sovereignty and data resilience is a main priority. To honor this aspect of our mission, we are currently creating a Data Resilience Plan which will preserve and care for the futures of our Indigenous data while protecting its inherent sovereignty. Building upon the CARE Principles (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Plan will outline how DAILP operationalizes data sovereignty and governance, as well as the Project’s processes and procedures for data resilience. Through generalized philosophies realized as customizable implementations, this Plan serves as a guiding document and ecosystem for all future adaptations of DAILP in additional languages and across communities.

Security

As part of building resilient data, DAILP continuously updates its security procedures and safeguards. While this philosophy is integrated into everything we work towards, it currently manifests in our admin structures, account verification, and the use of Turnstile.

Admin Permissions

DAILP has developed its user permissions and user management in a manner that incorporates security as a major concern. While anyone can create an account as a reader, in order to add to the site, a user’s permission level must be changed by an administrator. Additionally, any content added by contributors will be approved or rejected by editors or administrators. Through this structuring, DAILP prevents incorrect or harmful information from being added to the site and ensures that all contributors and editors have been endorsed.

Account Verification

In order to create an account on the DAILP website, a user has to verify their email address. This works by triggering an email to the address used at account creation, which the user will then need to open and click through to finalize registration. Through that process, we are confirming that an email address is real, valid, and capable of receiving messages. This helps our users by ensuring the email they’ve entered is correct and that account recovery will work if needed. It also protects DAILP from the creation of fake accounts and unauthorized access.

Turnstile Implementation

We are currently in the process of implementing Cloudflare Turnstile, a non-intrusive verification tool that protects logins. This new security feature will confirm that users are real and block unwanted bots. Once implemented, we will prevent bots from accessing the site or attempting to log in, without slowing down or hurting the site experience for our users.

For Further Reading:

Indigenous Data Sovereignty Resource Inventory put together by The Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P4QNe0X1nXsXucLDqLlnK2NG4dGoXmCOIPpi6yHIXEA/edit?usp=sharing

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/Indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf

CARE Principles by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance: https://www.gida-global.org/care