IKM is a collaborative project between the CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology and the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Cultural Resources Centre (CRC).

Other collaborators include:

• Faculty of Indigenous Research and Education, Charles Darwin University
• Cultural Resource Centre, National Museum for the American Indian
• Sacred Treaty Circles/Oodgeroo Nunuccal Archive
• Garma Festival 2005
• The Aboriginal Mapping Network