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Knowledge Organization Systems

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 …

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. …