Caleb Triscari
PhD
Conservation
Caleb Triscari is a PhD candidate with the Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation. Prior to joining the Cripps Institute, Caleb studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, where he investigated the management of Australian music collections, including Indigenous music collections, in libraries and archives. He previously worked at the Victorian Parliamentary Library, where he produced research papers on a variety of public interest topics, with a focus on data visualisation, statistics and mapping.
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Thesis
Policy and strategy solutions to issues facing remote Indigenous heritage collections
This PhD examines gaps in policy, strategy, protocols, procedures, IP management and knowledge related to heritage in remote Indigenous communities. It reviews the current challenges faced by art centres when preserving valuable Indigenous cultural collections and offers possible models to ameliorate these challenges.
This research is part of the overarching ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship (ILF) project ‘Safe Keeping: Effecting Solutions for Risks to Remote Indigenous Heritage’ (2025-2030). The ILF project builds on a 2016-2017 study on 29 Indigenous art and cultural centres by the Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation, known as ‘Safe Keeping: A Report on the Care and Management of Art Centre-based Community Collections’.
Research interests
- Collection management
- Cultural policy
- Musicology/Ethnomusicology
- Digital heritage
- Indigenous knowledges
- Information management