The Kitikmeot Heritage Society would like to thank the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy and the Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth for its support of this project. We are also very pleased with our working relationship with the Geographic and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) of Carleton University, who has developed the programming for the Atlas using a new version their Nunaliit Framework.
The Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas is the result of an ongoing program of place name recording in the communities of the Kitikmeot Region. The purpose of the project is to comprehensively record the traditional Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun place names of the region, including their pronunciations, meanings and associated oral traditions. This work will ensure that the region’s place names will continue to be known to future generations of Nunavummiut.
The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University conducts research into Cybercartography and interactive mapping technologies and have provided research and development support to a number of communities that are interested in making their stories available in a dynamic, engaging way. Cybercartographic atlases are on-line, 'living atlases' that use a dynamic, interactive mapping interface, along with other forms of mapping and multi-media information to engage people in creating online interactive maps related to their communities.
The technology developed at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre was enhanced to support new community requirements - and is now actively being reused by other communities in the north and elsewhere.
