1. A dynamic group of people actively engaging with the Mukurtu software tool suite to produce a robust development environment.

2. People using Mukurtu to manage their cultural heritage materials, develop relationships with other collecting institutions, and preserve their traditional knowledge.

The community page will provide an opportunity for users and developers to actively engage with the tool, provide direction for successive development phases, and produce a community digital archive platform that suits the cultural needs of Indigenous communities globally.

Mukurtu partners are active in the development, research, production, dissemination and sustainability of the tool.

• Center for Digital Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
• CivicActions
• Center for Transformative Scholarship, University of Southern California
• Smallbean Inc., Citizen Archivist Project
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Traditional Creativity, Cultural Expressions and Cultural Heritage Section

Our advisers provide practical assistance regarding the development and application of the tool across multiple and diverse stakeholder groups.

• Robert Leopold, Director, Consortium for World Cultures, Smithsonian Institution
• Jennifer O’Neal, Head Archivist, National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resource Center, Smithsonian Institution
• Wendy Seltzer, Fellow, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.
• Michael Taft, Head of the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center
• Nicholas Tripcevich, Research Associate and Laboratory Manager, Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley

Mukurtu sponsors provide funding, infrastructure and other capital needs for the ongoing development and sustainability of the project. Mukurtu is made possible, in part, by grants from

• The U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities
• Washington State University Foundation