Cooee is designed to be a visual archive of indigenous cultural and historical data.  The aim is to present to people, particularly indigenous young people, an easy means of connecting to ongoing, living cultural heritage.

 

We want to make indigenous storytelling, culture and history more accessible to younger generations by providing an intelligent, engaging central platform to convey information across multiple databases. 

 

We have currently aggregated data from both the Trove API - which is part of the National Library of Australia, and the ABC - Local Online Photo Stories - 2009-2014. The data ranges from newspaper articles, photographs and stories from a timeline that ranges from pre-contact, early contact, to current day. 

 

As it stands, information about aboriginal culture and heritage is distributed across numerous databases, websites, and organisations as well as different data formats, making it harder for both individuals and organisations to access and contribute. 

 

The result is an app that is a searchable, visual archive of of indigenous heritage. It's a database that is presented as primarily visual archive, the user is able to select a thumbnail of the content and view it's data.