Long before it was envisioned as open source software for hundreds of communities around the world, Mukurtu (link is external) (MOOK-oo-too) was first created in 2007 by researchers Kim Christen Withey and Craig Dietrich for the Warumungu Aboriginal community in central Australia to be able to circulate, view, and narrate materials following their own cultural practices. Mukurtu, a Warumungu word for ‘dilly bag’– or a safe keeping place for ritual materials, rang true as the name of the platform, as the archive represented a safe keeping place for the Warumungu people to store and share their digital heritage.

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