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Northern Territories and Indigenous Minorities related to the “Preservation
and Promotion of Literature in Languages of Indigenous Peoples of the North
and Translation at the Digital Age” discussed how to deal with the preservation
issue and ensure access to the documented cultural heritage of small peoples of
the Russian North.
Taking into account the discussions, the Committee supported the proposal of
the round-table participants to create an inter-regional information center of
documented cultural heritage of indigenous populations of the Russian North
under the auspices of the National Library of the republic as well as set up its
offices in local and regional libraries in twenty two Russian entities inhabited
by indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The center of documented cultural heritage of indigenous populations of the
Russian North will coordinate joint efforts of libraries, research institutes,
educational institutions, public associations in the Russian Northern territories
in collecting, preserving and using documented memory of peoples of the
Russian North.
The main areas of the center responsibilities will include: coordination of joint
efforts of networked libraries in the Russian North; establishment and protection
of information resources and their availability; translation; methodological
support of unification and harmonization of the technology used to create and
organize e-resources; and promotion of international cooperation with a view
to setting up topic-specific databases.
The inter-regional center will be focused on developing concepts of e-resources
and their use in order to:
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a. identify, collect and preserve documents, i.e. official papers, printed,
audio and video materials on indigenous peoples of the Russian North;
b. produce a repertory catalogue of books in 25 written languages of
indigenous populations of the Russian North;
c. set up issue- and topic-specific databases such as Reindeer breeding,
Fishing, Hunting, Northern territories and their environment, Nomadic
school etc;
d. set up a database on small peoples with no writing systems; and record
the speech of peoples speaking endangered languages;
e. translate works of fiction.
To make information resources available, a relevant platform will be needed, i.e.
a multipurpose portal with its specific IP-address to provide universal access
to the following information and interactive resources: