We are very excited to welcome Kyle Hart to our Ka Wai Hāpai Project Team! Kyle is joining our team as a Research Assistant to help formulate our remaining activities and project documentation before we wrap up on July 31, …
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, …
Last week, Shavonn, Margaret and I attended the 2023 Association of College & Research Libraries Annual Conference. Discussions about remote learning, social justice, and sustainable work-life balance centered around the theme “Forging the Future.” Our poster, “Indigenous Knowledge Organization: A …
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 …
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 …
This story illustrates that even at an institution that aspires to be “indigenous serving,” and a “Native Hawaiian place of learning,” there will still be unexpected opportunities to recommit to these promises. It also illustrates the importance of the leadership …
Knowledge, especially the sorts of knowledge represented in cataloging and metadata systems, is often abstract. This abstraction can make it difficult to build a common understanding. My role on this team is to take abstract systems and create models to …
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. …
Last week (May 23-May 25), our Ka Wai Hāpai team held our first in-person retreat at Hale o Punaluʻu, one of the houses in Punaluʻu, Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu that belong to Kamehameha Schools. Fun fact! Punaluʻu is an entire ahupuaʻa that …
Aloha pumehana kākou e nā hoa noiʻi nowelo! Aloha, everyone! It is our pleasure and privilege to introduce our project, Ka Wai Hāpai: Co-Creating Controlled Vocabularies for Social Justice. This two-year project, running August 2021 through July 2023, is generously …