Looking at our first authority record
Context While so far on this blog we have talked a lot about the approach we have taken to our work, we’d like to take the chance here to review one of the results. To test our methodology and process, …
Margaret Joyce
Specialized vs universal controlled vocabularies
In thinking of the goals of our project, the Ka Wai Hāpai team has taken inspiration from various controlled and specialized vocabularies. We thought it would be helpful to provide some background for the goals of controlled vocabularies overall, and the …
Plans for 2023
On December 12th the Ka Wai Hāpai team had an all-day in-person meeting focused on making plans for 2023. As our grant term will conclude this summer, it was important that we met together to ensure that we were both …
Ka Wai Hāpai, knowledge organization and reparative description
Ka Wai Hāpai is a project aimed at creating a framework to organize information according to Hawaiian epistemology. Part of the foundation of this work is understanding the ways that our current knowledge organization tools are unequal to this task. …