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A new web portal, Circumpolar Cultures in the Museums Worldwide: Past,
Present and Future (www.arcticmuseum.com), was presented at the forum,
along with an eponymous DVD disc and a colourful album released by
the UNESCO Sakha Committee and the republic’s Northern Indigenous
Communities History & Culture Museum.
The North-Eastern Federal University’s Innovative Information Technology
Centre provided software, content, DVD design, and hosting services for
this project. Both the links page and the DVD earned praise from the ICOM
administration.
Yakutsk was also the venue of a symposium entitled “Art Education in the
Subarctic Cultural Environment,” held on November 26-27, 2009. This one covered
seven focus areas, including three related to lingustic and cultural diversity:
• Indigenous Subarctic communities: Traditional culture & folklore
studies;
• Fine arts at Subarctic institutions of art education;
• Modern trends in creating library & information spaces in an artsfocus
academic environment.
Recommendations adopted by these conferences, as well as existing circumpolar
heritage collections, are of significant scholarly and cultural value, and they
could prove instrumental in efforts to preserve and promote linguistic and
cultural diversity in cyberspace.
The international conference “Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace”
and its final document have become major reference points for practical efforts
in the area. The reports and essays contributed by the forum’s Russian and
foreign participants are a most valuable source of inspiration, as are all related
materials published by the Russian Committee of UNESCO Information for
All Programme (IFAP).
Based on the Lena Resolution recommendations, we suggest three strategic
tasks to be carried out to pave the way for online representation of the linguistic
and cultural diversity of the Russian North’s indigenous communities:
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1. Representing the scripts of all indigenous languages of the Russian
North in computer operating systems;
2. Creating a Web portal with exhaustive information on the cultures
and languages of small indigenous peoples of the North, along with
opportunities for online communication in indigenous languages;
3. Establishing a related department within the North-Eastern Federal
University.