KO Summit Reflections On June 18, the ʻɲ Hawaiian Knowledge Organization System (HKOS) team brought together folks from across the pae ʻāina to discuss how knowledge organization, grounded in Hawaiian worldview and language, can improve understanding and access to ʻike …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …