出版社：Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks (CIRAN)
摘要：As the pressures on traditional and indigenous communities mount, the search for effective
forms of documentation to support the conservation and transmission of indigenous
knowledge (IK) is becoming increasingly urgent. Fortunately, the emergence of computerized
databases for the recording, storage and communication of IK offers exciting possibilities.
Many different approaches to using databases for IK documentation have been developed over
the past decade. The range of scientific topics concerned with the documentation of local knowledge
is rich and varied, from GIS applications recording the agronomic practices of a single group of
subsistence farmers in east Africa, to the sum of all ethnobotanical knowledge associated with a
particular cosmopolitan family of useful plants. This growing diversity also represents different
attempts to negotiate a series of complex issues pertaining to the documentation of IK. These range
from technical issues in creating databases to suit the inherent nature of IK, to ethical issues related to
recording and applying locally generated knowledge elsewhere.
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