A project undertaken at The University of Melbourne, and supervised by Prof Brendan Wintle
Our vision is to create a place to understand, protect and heal Country – land, sky, water, people, animals and plants – through recognising, safeguarding, and weaving knowledge systems. We are building a national, state-of-the-art Integrated Knowledge System (IKS).
We have created a beta version of this system, which provides access to open data sources including integrated landscape and spatial data. At its core, the IKS provides pathways for First Nations and local communities to store their knowledge to use and share as they choose and combine and visualise it with other open data sources.
Our long-term objective is to build critical pathways for Australia’s biodiversity conservation and protection of Country. To do this, we must ensure our system design and functionality provide a culturally safe space to share information.
Our broader ambition is to provide a non-government platform that is consistent, contemporary, and shareable that will bring together publicly available data and cultural data in a secure and protected way to integrate these varying and multiple datasets for more effective decision making and planning.