Originality and Attribution

This Knowledge Centre is not intended to function as an academic publication, formal research review, or comprehensive literature survey. It is a practical knowledge resource designed to make complex topics more accessible to communities and practitioners. Every effort has been made to create original explanatory content. While many of the concepts discussed throughout this document reflect widely accepted practices, principles, and ideas found within the fields of language revitalization, education, technology, governance, and knowledge management, the presentation, organization, interpretation, and explanatory narratives have been developed specifically for this Knowledge Centre. No claim is made that FNEF originated all concepts discussed herein. Many concepts represent the collective knowledge, experience, and contributions of Indigenous communities, language practitioners, educators, researchers, technologists, and organizations working in these fields over many decades. For example, Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a formal framework traces to work by Indigenous scholars including Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Carroll Rainie, and others associated with the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Rapid Word Collection as a methodology was developed by SIL International. Field terms such as “low-resource language,” “audio-text alignment,” and “language corpus” come from the broader natural language processing and computational linguistics literature. The Knowledge Centre draws on these and many other contributions while presenting its own practical synthesis. Where possible, the Knowledge Centre seeks to build upon that collective body of knowledge while contributing practical insights gained through FNEF’s own work and experience.