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Saibai Corpus
A future-facing archive shaped around continuity and care.
Saibai Corpus was developed by a UTS team for the Engineers Without Borders 2025 Challenge. The project explores how an interactive archive could help people navigate a long and varied collection while keeping cultural authority and permission in view.
Project team member and software engineering student; contributed to the concept and digital experience.
A UTS student team working through the Engineers Without Borders 2025 Challenge, with project direction grounded in community and rights-holder protocols.
- 2025
- Engineers Without Borders challenge
- 2
- team awards listed by UTS student contributors
- UTS
- Engineering & IT capstone team
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The context
The Saibai Corpus project responds to a difficult preservation question: how might a community’s records remain findable and connected across formats, generations, and changing circumstances?
The team’s project description presents an interactive archive spanning historic recordings and newer digital materials. That is a description of the project brief and team vision, not a claim that this portfolio can republish those materials.
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Designing for relationships
An archive is more than a file list. The concept explored ways to move between a record, its context, and the relationships that help people understand it. This page uses a neutral diagram to talk about that system without extracting a map, recording, name, image, or story from the collection.
- Make different kinds of records navigable in one experience.
- Keep context attached to the material as a person explores.
- Treat permission and cultural protocol as part of the design boundary.
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Team recognition
Kai’s public UTS project listing records two team results for Saibai Corpus: People’s Choice at the UTS Engineering & IT Capstone Showcase presented by IPWEA NSW & ACT (June 2025), and Best Project at the UTS Social Impact Showcase (July 2025). These recognitions belong to the project team.
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Working with care
The software repository’s content notice says its software licence does not provide blanket rights to cultural, family, genealogical, oral-history, language, or place-based materials. Public availability of historical records is not permission to reuse them elsewhere. Any further use must follow the relevant protocols and seek permission from the appropriate knowledge or rights holders.
This portfolio uses only a neutral, original systems diagram. It does not reproduce collection content.
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