The Global-Local database adapts the approach of the Globalization and Portal Project (GAPP) organized by the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii. Once fully developed, this massive electronic database will include interpretative overviews, documents, photographs and audio files, and will be made available through the web for all the participants of all the projects conducted within and in collaboration with the Globalism Institute.

Entry Points to the Global-Local Database

Each research theme has a separate entry to the database on its research location pages.

Network Collaborators
Aceh
Bali
Bosnia and Herzegovina
East Timor
Israel-Palestine
The Solomon Islands

Each research theme identified in the Global-Local Database is dedicated to enhancing the research undertaken within the Global Cities Research Institute under related research programs. As time goes on this part of the database will also house general publications and archives of key texts on each research theme, including the work generated by our researchers and our collaborative partners.

The public material generated by the thematic research that is entered into the database will remain accessible for all communities and researchers, apart from material that we are ethically prohibited from making public. Culturally or politically sensitive material will remain confidential between individual researchers and the people with whom they are working collaboratively. Otherwise, the Global-Local database is an open-source project.

All materials, including images and stories, are copyright for the purposes of commercial use. For other users we ask only that they formally register their interest and the context in which the material will be used by emailing us, and fully acknowledge the source of the material.

 For any queries about the Global-Local Database please contact the Globalism Research Centre Web and Database Manager, Todd Bennet.

How the Global-Local Database Works

Each research location or collaborating group has its own homepage. This contains information for community participants and allows on-site research collaborators and any member of that community participating in the project to contribute material to the database. Each site’s page has an interface to the database that is tailored to that community which brings up the material specific to that research site or collaborating group.

However, researchers and participants are not restricted to searching only their own material, it is also possible to search material contributed at other sites in any general research category. As a registered user, if you submit material to the database you will be required to categorise (tag) the material submitted (an 'asset') according to a set range of options that are based on our life-world and social themes. There will also be an option to suggest your own category or categories. The database can accept a wide range of file types, including image files, text documents, PDF files, film clips, etc.

To submit material to the database via a website people will need

1) to be associated with one of the projects under the umbrella of one of our research programs or collaborative groups, and,

2) to register through the database as a participant at their site.

Registration can be done by anyone from anywhere in the world but material will not appear on the database until the registration and the content of the material has been approved by a Research Site Manager. This is simply a ‘safety mechanism’ to avoid materials in our database being corrupted by viruses or inappropriate material being loaded to the database.

Below we provide more information on how to use the database, but if you have any queries regarding the Global-Local database or this website, please contact our Database Manager, Todd Bennet.

• How to use the Global Local Database