chore: push up first draft

[suchapalaver]

Distributed technology could be a disruptive use case for implementing the repatriation and protection of North American indigenous cultural heritage by making available the provenance of existing university, museum, and private collections on an open protocol.

This is a case where the data is not public and while many stakeholders would want it to be shared, there are various reasons why attempting to establish a centralized repository and service for making this data available would be fraught.

While the write-up here comes from a previous job where I was working on the provenance recording platform Chronicle and imagines a stack involving Hyperledger Sawtooth, I propose considering how we could use The Graph.

If we could convince - through enough education - a network of university departments and/or museums to participate in running such a network I believe it could disrupt the NAGPRA process in positive ways while influencing the reputation of crypto technology in the wider world.