Additional resources and references

Some other guides, references and manuals about mapping and storytelling that could be of use as you design your project.

About Terrastories

Overview

• ▶️ What is the Earth Defenders Toolkit? | Digital Democracy 2023 (documentary about an earth defenders retreat in Ecuador with testimonies about Terrastories) [EN]

• ▶️ Mapping your place-based oral histories with Terrastories | Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2021 (46-min video of a practical workshop) [EN]

• ▶️ Terrastories Demo | Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2020 (16 min-video) [EN]

• ▶️ Lightning Talk: Terrastories | MozFest 2022 (7-min video) [EN]

• ▶️ Open-source tech built with local & marginalized communities for mapping, safeguarding, and protecting oral histories | Code4Lib 2021 keynote (40-min video) [EN]

• 📖 Terrastories | Evaluating Participatory Mapping Software published by Springer, 2023 [EN]

Examples of Terrastories projects

• 🌍 Explore Terrastories | Explore multiple communities worldwide that have opted to share some of their content with a greater public

• 📖 Matawai: Place-based storytelling in Suriname (case study) [EN / ES / PT / FR / KM / SW / TH / VI]

• 📖 Ohneganos: Indigenous mapping [EN]

Other resources

• 📚 Earth Defenders Toolkit (a website that includes multiple guides, videos, case studies, etc.) [EN / ES / PT / FR]

• 📖 Mapping and recording place-based oral histories: a methodology | The Amazon Conservation Team (guide, PDF) [EN / NL]

• 📖 Terrastories Community Mapping Project at Six Nations: A Ratikararò:roks (Story Gatherers) Training Guide for the Stewardship of Haudenosaunee Ecological Knowledge | Ohneganos Ohnegahdę:gyo (guide, PDF) [EN]

• 📝 ODK / KoboToolbox form to collect places and stories for Terrastories in the field