Many memory institutions hold heritage items belonging to Indigenous peoples. There are current efforts to share knowledge about these heritage items with their communities; one way this is done is through digital access. This paper examines The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), a network of researchers, museum professionals, and community members who maintain a digital platform that aggregates museum and archival research on Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat cultures into a centralized database. The database, known as the GRASAC Knowledge Sharing System (GKS), is at a point of infrastructural growth, moving from a password protected system to one that is open to the public. Rooted in qualitative research from semi-structured interviews with the creators, maintainers, and users of the database, we examine the frictions in this expanding knowledge infrastructure (KI), and how they are eased over time. We find the friction within GRASAC resides in three main categories: collaborative friction, data friction, and our novel contribution: systemic friction.

许多纪念机构保存着属于原住民的遗产。目前正在努力与社区分享有关这些遗产的知识；实现这一目标的一种方法是通过数字访问。本文探讨了五大湖原住民艺术与文化研究联盟 (GRASAC)，这是一个由研究人员、博物馆专业人员和社区成员组成的网络，他们维护着一个数字平台，汇集了有关阿尼希纳贝 (Anishinaabe)、豪德诺索尼 (Haudenosaunee) 和休伦湖 (Huron) 的博物馆和档案研究。 Wendat 文化进入集中数据库。该数据库被称为 GRASAC 知识共享系统 (GKS)，正处于基础设施发展阶段，从密码保护系统转变为向公众开放的系统。基于对数据库创建者、维护者和用户进行半结构化访谈的定性研究，我们研究了不断扩展的知识基础设施 (KI) 中的摩擦，以及如何随着时间的推移缓解这些摩擦。我们发现 GRASAC 内部的摩擦主要分为三大类：协作摩擦、数据摩擦以及我们的新贡献：系统摩擦。